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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #642

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

My friends: Alistair Croll (Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, Interesting Bits, HBS, chair of Strata, Startupfest, FWD50, and Scaletechconf; author of Lean Analytics and some other books), Hugh McGuire (Rebus Foundation, PressBooks, LibriVox) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person “must see.”

Check out these six links that we’re recommending to one another: 

What the F#@k Just Happened at Burning Man? – Buck Down – Medium. “‘Burning Man … is not a cult you join — it’s a cult that joins you. One day you wake up and realize that 20 years have gone by, and pretty much your entire social circle, your significant other, and any children you happen to have had together are all traceable to this oddball festival out in the punishing Northern Nevada desert.’ Truer words have seldom been spoken, and most of my cult tells me 2022 was dreadful. Not in the usual ‘it was hot and uncomfortable’ way, but in a more profound, existential way. This post grapples with why.” (Alistair for Hugh). The Paper of Record Meets an Ephemeral Web: An Examination of Linkrot and Content Drift within The New York Times – SSRN . “That’s a long title, but it’s a great paper from three smart Internet scholars. Link rot is real, and the vast majority of links in important legal documents don’t work any more. The Internet Archive is scarcely a good solution, either, with many sites having tags that tell search engines not to crawl or index them. Serious consequences for brands, governments, and more. Read this before it disappears!” (Alistair for Mitch). A Tale of Cancellation – A conversation with Meg Smaker – Making Sense Podcast . “The incredible story of a real-life cancellation, not of a wealthy and powerful man, but a first-time feature documentary maker who spent months interviewing inmates of a ‘terrorist rehab centre’ in Saudi Arabia, to give a human portrait of some men who did awful things. Meg Smaker‘s own life should be made into a film: She’s been kidnapped in Columbia by a group that beheads its victims, has navigated through multiple warlord-controlled sections of Mogadishu, she’s been a firefighter in California and a firefighting instructor in Yemen. But the most stressful thing that happened to her was when her film, The UnRedacted — selected by Sundance, up for an award by SXSW — was subject of a cancellation campaign by multiple parties, none of whom seems to have ever seen the movie.” (Hugh for Alistair). Most new managers suck at managing – Zain Khan – Twitter . “A great thread for new managers, and old ones too, for how to lead people”. (Hugh for Mitch). What is viral jazz? – WRTI – NPR Music . “It doesn’t take much to get me to try out a new form of music. All new forms of music come from somewhere. So… if you’re offering me up jazz… and it’s weird… and you add in the word ‘viral’, that’s a pretty good hook for me. Open you ears… and open your mind. Now, I’m not sure this is an actual genre (yet!) so much as a way to describe something a little bit different… then again, that’s usually the exact place where a new genre (or sub-genre) emerges from. Go and explore, and let me know what you think. Long live viral jazz!” (Mitch for Alistair). Inside a highly lucrative, ethically questionable essay-writing service – Input Magazine . “Yes, you should worry about these new AI writing platforms that can pump out some pretty human sounding documents. It’s not perfect, but they’re learning quickly and getting there. I also saw a reddit article on how to beat software that can catch someone trying to cheap in school. The concept is pretty simple: Input the text into Google Translate then translate your native writing into Chinese, then to Spanish, then to Hebrew then back into English (or any combo of multiple languages that you choose), give it a quick cleaning up and ‘voila!’ it’s completely different copy from the original source. With that, we all remember that one person in high school (or college) who would write your essays for you (for a price). Well, forget AI and Google Translate tricks, what happens when that buddying writer from school goes corporate? ‘Killer Papers, based in Canada, is one of a number of so-called essay mills that write papers for clients in exchange for money. And as kids head back to school this fall, business in the industry is about to pick up. ‘A slow month is August, and a busy month is October,’ Kevin says. He now has around 60 writers who produce between 200 and a thousand papers a month, with prices ranging from $17.50 to $32 per page. Though Kevin is coy about sharing specific numbers, he will allow that the site’s revenue is in ‘the low seven figures.’ Whoa!” (Mitch for Hugh).  

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Megan Reitz On Navigating Power And Politics At Work – This Week’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast

Episode #848 of Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

Enabling people to speak up at work is now an imperative to reduce the risk of wrong-doing as well as access vital knowledge and ideas from employees. Simply asking people to ‘speak up’ and encouraging leaders to ‘engage in conversation’ without thoroughly appreciating the impact that power differences – and prevailing social and cultural norms – have on what can be spoken, and what is heard, is naïve at best. This is the work of Megan Reitz and the main topic of her latest book, Speak Up – Say what needs to be said and hear what needs to be heard (along with co-author, John Higgins). Working at the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue and mindfulness, Megan has presented research to audiences throughout the world and is ranked as one of the top 50 management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50 and on the 2021 HR Most Influential list of Thinkers. She is also the author of Dialogue in Organizations – Developing Relational Leadership and Mind Time – How 10 mindful minutes can enhance your work, health and happiness. Megan is a Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Ashridge Executive Education – part of Hult International Business School. Before joining Ashridge, Megan was a consultant with Deloitte, surfed the dot-com wave with boo.com, and worked in strategy consulting. Enjoy the conversation…

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SPOS #848 – Megan Reitz On Navigating Power And Politics At Work

Welcome to episode #848 of Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast – Episode #848. Enabling people to speak up at work is now an imperative to reduce the risk of wrong-doing as well as access vital knowledge and ideas from employees. Simply asking people to ‘speak up’ and encouraging leaders to ‘engage in conversation’ without thoroughly appreciating the impact that power differences – and prevailing social and cultural norms – have on what can be spoken, and what is heard, is naïve at best. This is the work of Megan Reitz and the main topic of her latest book, Speak Up – Say what needs to be said and hear what needs to be heard (along with co-author, John Higgins). Working at the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue and mindfulness, Megan has presented research to audiences throughout the world and is ranked as one of the top 50 management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50 and on the 2021 HR Most Influential list of Thinkers. She is also the author of Dialogue in Organizations – Developing Relational Leadership and Mind Time – How 10 mindful minutes can enhance your work, health and happiness. Megan is a Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Ashridge Executive Education – part of Hult International Business School. Before joining Ashridge, Megan was a consultant with Deloitte, surfed the dot-com wave with boo.com, and worked in strategy consulting. Enjoy the conversation…

Running time: 1:00:05.Hello from beautiful Montreal.Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts.Please visit and leave comments on the blog – Six Pixels of Separation.Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.Check out ThinkersOne.or you can connect on LinkedIn.…or on Twitter.Here is my conversation with Megan Reitz.Speak Up – Say what needs to be said and hear what needs to be heard.Dialogue in Organizations – Developing Relational Leadership.Mind Time – How 10 mindful minutes can enhance your work, health and happiness.Ashridge Executive Education.Follow Megan on LinkedIn.Follow Megan on Twitter.

This week’s music: David Usher ‘St. Lawrence River’.

Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast – Episode #848.

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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #641

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

My friends: Alistair Croll (Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, Interesting Bits, HBS, chair of Strata, Startupfest, FWD50, and Scaletechconf; author of Lean Analytics and some other books), Hugh McGuire (Rebus Foundation, PressBooks, LibriVox) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person “must see.”

Check out these six links that we’re recommending to one another: 

Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces New Technology for Fast-Charging, Noncombustible Batteries – University of Texas News. “I am not the first to observe that John Goodenough is ignoring his moniker. The inventor of the Lithium-Ion battery that powers most of our lives is still at it, in his nineties, this time with Portuguese physicist Maria Helena Braga. I’ve been spending a lot of time researching the ironclad tradeoffs between progress and sustainability (spoiler alert: It’s really bad. Worse than you think.) But sometimes, things like this give me hope.” (Alistair for Hugh). The Guy Predicting Stocks With An Army of App-Based Psychics – Motherboard by Vice . “Went down a time-sucking rabbithole the other day on Gateway, a 1980s CIA thing about expanding consciousness through hypnotism, sound, and more. Turns out, there’s a document (with a missing page) full of instructions, which are all the rage on TikTok these days. But that rabbithole led here: Now that it’s easy to connect the whole world, what if there are psychics? And what if they can predict the stock market? With UFOs, the more that people carried cameras in their pockets the rarer sightings became. Will the Internet prove ESP is real, or take all the fun out of everything?” (Alistair for Mitch). University of Hypocrisy – The Atlantic . “The problems of higher education, wealth and political division in America.” (Hugh for Alistair).  Next Level Perfect Pitch (8 Year Old) – Rick Beato – YouTube . “This is, apparently, a pretty famous video, but I saw it for the first time this week. I have been learning ukulele, not having picked up an instrument in since about 1986. I have a new appreciation, clunky though it is, for the structure of music. I have a way to go before I can pick out chords the way this kid does.” (Hugh for Mitch).The Overlooked Titan of Social Media – The New Yorker. ”Think about YouTube like this: ‘No company has done more to create the online attention economy we’re all living in today,’ Mark Bergen writes at the start of Like, Comment, Subscribe, his detailed history of YouTube, from 2005, the year it was founded, to the present.’ I have been following the YouTube story since day one. In my earlier years of public speaking, I was invited to Google for a presentation, it had to be moved because the venue I was speaking in was now becoming the offices of YouTube – Google had just acquired it (this was 2006). This article highlights the massive impact that this one social network has had on culture. Along with becoming one of the best search engines in the world, it provides us with everything from live religious ceremonies to a way to consume our daily news. Long ago, someone once said that YouTube could become the next television. I’d argue that it has become just that… and so much more…” (Mitch for Alistair). Technology Can Make Your Relationships Shallower – The Atlantic . “I’ve been thinking a lot about this concept. I went to Toronto last week for some meetings… I wound up meeting people that I had not seen since before the pandemic. This is common for many people. What makes my situation unique, is that I was often in Toronto 2-4 times a month before the pandemic. I had an office there… a hotel where the staff knew me… and then *poof* it stopped. I maintained many of those relationships via regular texts, etc… but actually seeing… and hugging… these friends I had not seen in years made me (a little bit) sad. I realized that our relationships had deteriorated to texting memes and sharing videos, but they lacked the true depth that would ’normally’ entail a healthy relationship. This made me re-evaluate many relationships that I have which are, primarily, based on technology. Pushing this idea further, I realized that I consider many of these people ‘close friends’… but are they? Maybe they’re just very shallow acquaintances?” (Mitch for Hugh).  

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Michael League From Snarky Puppy On This Month’s Groove – The No Treble Podcast

Michael League is this month’s conversation on Groove – The No Treble Podcast.

You can listen the new episode right here: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #94 – Michael League.

Who is Michael League ?

Michael League is a 4-time Grammy Award-winning, 5-time Grammy Award-nominated multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, arranger, songwriter, label owner, and bandleader based in Catalonia, Spain. Not to simplify things, but to the No Treble community, he may be more widely known as the bass player for Snarky Puppy. He doesn’t just play bass in the instrumental music ensemble, he is a founder and runs the collective. Aside from leading Snarky Puppy, Michael maintains a heavy schedule in multiple capacities. As a multi-instrumentalist and producer, he has worked with a diverse range of artists in pop (Joe Walsh, Michael McDonald, Rufus Wainwright), folk (David Crosby, Chris Thile), gospel (Kirk Franklin, Walter Hawkins), jazz (Esperanza Spalding, Joshua Redman, Wayne Krantz), and world music (Salif Keïta, Eliades Ochoa of the Buena Vista Social Club). Michael also launched the record label GroundUP Music in 2011. He immediately signed eight new artists including Banda Magda, Bill Laurance, and The Funky Knuckles. GroundUP Music launched its first annual music festival in Miami Beach in 2017 and continues to be a trusted source of music curation for curious listeners worldwide. In 2016, he started the band Bokanté. Blending influence from blues, rock, Caribbean, and West African styles, the group includes an all-star cast of musicians from four different continents. In 2020, Michael recorded his debut solo album, So Many Me, producing it alongside long-time collaborator Nic Hard. Mixing influences from his childhood with recent studies of folkloric musical traditions, the record features him as the sole composer, arranger, and performer. If that were not enough, Michael is passionately committed to music education and outreach, having given clinics and masterclasses at over 200 schools on 6 continents around the world. He is active as a guest speaker in international music business panels and works regularly with non-profit organizations in an effort to better serve the community at large through the arts. In 2020, Michael and GroundUP Music Festival director, Paul Lehr, launched the GroundUP Music Foundation, dedicated to community enrichment through the arts. Enjoy the conversation…

What is Groove – The No Treble Podcast?

This is an ambitious effort. This will be a fascinating conversation. Our goal at Groove is to build the largest oral history of bass players. Why Groove? Most of the content about the bass revolves around gear, playing techniques, and more technical chatter. For us, bassists are creative artists with stories to tell. They are a force to be reckon with. These are the stories and conversation that we will capture. To create this oral history of why these artists chose the bass, what their creative lives are like, and where inspiration can be found.

Listen in:  Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #94 – Michael League.

Groove – Episode #94: Michael League by No Treble

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The Hesitancy To Return To The Office

There is hesitancy to…

Head back to the office full time.Attend corporate events and conferences.Hold large team gatherings.Travel for business.

There is NO hesitancy to…

Pack cafes during the work week.Pack restaurants during the work week.Attend sold-out concerts, sporting events and more.Travel for leisure.Sit in traffic on the highways and in the downtown core.

Imagine if…

Teachers, nurses, doctors, specialists, store owners, and more said, “the pandemic has changed us… we will only come back to in-person work two/three days a week… the rest will have to be virtual.”
I’ve been on the road and traveling for the past few months. This has been the sentiment expressed to me by a myriad of professionals from event organizers and Chief Marketing Officers to heads of large venture capital firms and leaders within some of the most exciting brands in the world today.

I’ve also seen this behavior first-hand.

One c-suite executive with more than 100,000 employees in their organization said that the company is demanding that employees come to the office three days a week.
Two of the days are mandatory (Monday and Thursday) and the third day is at the discretion of the employee.

How is that working out?

Scheduling meetings internally has become a nightmare.
Scheduling meetings with clients and partners are even a greater nightmare.
Actually getting work done on Monday and Thursday is impossible.
Monday and Thursday are stacked with meetings with no time to think and actually get the work done.
Plus, because the team members only see one another twice a week in person, socializing and “coffee breaks” seem to be where most of the energy and “culture” is happening on those two days (in between the meetings). Because of this, deadlines and timelines are being shifted to make space for more time to “get the work done.” 

The worst part (according to this executive)?

Without any surveillance software, but by simply looking at the overall network traffic (emails, virtual meetings, accessing of corporate documents, etc…), the company is estimating that on Fridays the digital traffic is running at less than 10% of the usual traffic.
They are translating this as: Everyone is taking a long weekend… every week.

So, what do we have?

We have a bustling city during the work week with only about 20-30% of the office filled.
For those who do show up? They’re working in an office with 30% occupancy, and spending most of their days in Zoom meetings.

My hot take?

These numbers demonstrate just how unsatisfied the vast majority of the work population is with their current vocation.
These numbers demonstrate that while the work population can get their tasks done, other components like mentorship, lending a helping hand in an adhoc moment, or being a part of something greater than the individual’s to-do list are falling by the wayside.
Companies can do whatever they want to encourage people back to the office (free lunch, beer carts, free parking, etc), but if they don’t tackle this bigger issue of overall workplace satisfaction and the need for employees to want to be a part of the greater vision, we’re going to have even bigger corporate challenges…
Especially at this moment in time, when we’re on the cusp of what economists are predicting will be a deep recession.

Buckle up.

Matthew Dixon On The Science Of Getting More Sales – This Week’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast

Episode #847 of Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

If you’re in sales (and who isn’t?) you should probably read (if you haven’t already) The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon. The book was published in 2011, and has become one of the bigger books about sales. Matt is back with a brand new book, The JOLT Effect – How High Performers Overcome Customer Indecision (co-authored with Ted McKenna). The book focuses on a big idea: Customers no longer care about succeeding. What they really care about is not failing… and how, as a sales person, you can use this strategy to open up bigger conversations with prospects and close even bigger sales. Matt is Chief Product & Research Officer of the Austin-based AI and machine learning venture, Tethr. In this capacity, he has responsibility for product strategy, product management and product marketing. Prior to joining Tethr, Matt was a Senior Partner and Global Head of Sales Force Effectiveness Solutions at Korn Ferry Hay Group and, before that, held numerous global leadership roles in research, product development and management for CEB, now Gartner. A seasoned business researcher, Matt has been involved in dozens of original quantitative and qualitative research studies on topics ranging from customer experience strategy to customer service and sales effectiveness. Matt is also the author of several other books. Enjoy the conversation…

You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via Apple Podcast or whatever platform you may choose):  #847 of Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast.

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SPOS #847 – Matthew Dixon On The Science Of Getting More Sales

Welcome to episode #847 of Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast – Episode #847. If you’re in sales (and who isn’t?) you should probably read (if you haven’t already) The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon. The book was published in 2011, and has become one of the bigger books about sales. Matt is back with a brand new book, The JOLT Effect – How High Performers Overcome Customer Indecision (co-authored with Ted McKenna). The book focuses on a big idea: Customers no longer care about succeeding. What they really care about is not failing… and how, as a sales person, you can use this strategy to open up bigger conversations with prospects and close even bigger sales. Matt is Chief Product & Research Officer of the Austin-based AI and machine learning venture, Tethr. In this capacity, he has responsibility for product strategy, product management and product marketing. Prior to joining Tethr, Matt was a Senior Partner and Global Head of Sales Force Effectiveness Solutions at Korn Ferry Hay Group and, before that, held numerous global leadership roles in research, product development and management for CEB, now Gartner. A seasoned business researcher, Matt has been involved in dozens of original quantitative and qualitative research studies on topics ranging from customer experience strategy to customer service and sales effectiveness. Matt is also the author of several other books. Enjoy the conversation…

Running time: 1:03:08.Hello from beautiful Montreal.Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts.Please visit and leave comments on the blog – Six Pixels of Separation.Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.Check out ThinkersOne.or you can connect on LinkedIn.…or on Twitter.Here is my conversation with Matthew Dixon.The JOLT Effect – How High Performers Overcome Customer Indecision.Ted McKenna.The Challenger Sale.Tethr.Follow Matthew on LinkedIn.Follow Matthew on Twitter.

This week’s music: David Usher ‘St. Lawrence River’.

Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast – Episode #847.

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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #640

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

My friends: Alistair Croll (Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, Interesting Bits, HBS, chair of Strata, Startupfest, FWD50, and Scaletechconf; author of Lean Analytics and some other books), Hugh McGuire (Rebus Foundation, PressBooks, LibriVox) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person “must see.”

Check out these six links that we’re recommending to one another: 

America’s Throwaway Spies – Reuters. “With the protests in Iran, Russia’s attack on Ukraine, sabre-rattling in the South China Sea, and North Korea nearing nuclear status, foreign intelligence is a vital part of national security, and can even defuse aggression when shared strategically or revealed in public. But getting inside insular countries is hard, and the people who spy are in constant danger. This Reuters report documents the CIA‘s efforts to peer inside Tehran, and the oversights that abandoned dozens who risked their lives.” (Alistair for Hugh). Face-Blind – The New Yorker . “I can’t see faces. At least, not in my head. I have a hard time recognizing people — an almost fatal flaw for someone who runs events — and it’s almost impossible for me to visualize even my daughter’s face when I close my eyes. One of the great things about the Internet is the ability to compare things with a very specific population, and I’ve learned that this isn’t as uncommon as I once thought. This 2010 article on prosopagnosia isn’t quite how I function — Oliver Sacks definitely had it bad — but it’s a good reminder that no two humans see the world in the same way.” (Alistair for Mitch). We met Ata Kak, the Ghanaian dance-rap enigma back after 25 years in the shadows – Fact Magazine . “I’m going to a concert tonight for the first time in three years. Ata Kak seems like a fun place to start.” (Hugh for Alistair). Case Closed? – On The Media . “Remember Serial, the podcast sensation that made podcasting, the true crime investigation of a teenage murder in Baltimore? Here’s an update.” (Hugh for Mitch). The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse – The Guardian . “I am about to sit down and have an in-depth conversation (once again) with one of my favorite thinkers in the world, Douglas Rushkoff. He has a new book out called, Survival of the Richest – Escape Fantasies of Tech Billionaires. It’s a must-read (actually, everything he does is worthy of your attention). This is an excerpt from the book, and it paints a pretty dreary picture on the state of tech, politics, economics, the climate, and… well… basically everything. How can we solve this all? Douglas believes that we need to want to help one another. It’s just that simple. Knowing that – as humans – we are (and should be) a lot more inter-dependent. It may seem like a simplistic answer to a myriad of complex macro and micro problems, but it makes sense… and I’m on board. Team Human FTW!” (Mitch for Alistair). How to become an expert – Psyche . “I am a sucker for long articles like this. Could there be a more opaque word than ‘expert’? People have used it to describe me (which is extremely uncomfortable and unfounded), but then it’s used to describe others who – in my point of view – are not experts. And that’s the trap. My definition of expert is probably vastly different than yours. My inability to use it in a title in relation to others who have self-appointed themselves as an expert, could be a case of better self-marketing or it could be legitimate. Who decides? And, more importantly, how does one actually become an expert?” (Mitch for Hugh). 

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Dr. Ella F. Washington On Making Real Progress On Equity And Inclusion – This Week’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast

Episode #846 of Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

Candid conversations about diversity, inclusion and equity are never easy. Dr. Ella F. Washington is an organizational psychologist and DEI expert with a wealth of experience through her involvement as the Founder and CEO of Ellavate Solutions, a Professor of Practice at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, the Co-host of Gallup‘s Center of Black Voices Cultural Competence Podcast, and the author of the amazing book, The Necessary Journey – Making Real Progress on Equity and Inclusion. Dr. Washington continues to deepen her research pipeline and thought leadership as a Gallup Senior Scientist studying race, strengths and other DEI workplace topics. Dr. Washington’s global human capital consulting experience has allowed her to impact clients across a myriad of industries including financial services, sports & entertainment, oil and gas, higher education and government. Previously, Dr. Washington led the Diversity and Inclusion function Gallup as a subject matter expert where she provided insight to clients on issues of inclusion, culture, strategic diversity and engagement. Her research and client work focuses on women in the workplace, barriers to inclusion for diverse groups, and working with organizations to build inclusive cultures. She has conducted inclusiveness audits, developed learning workshops, and facilitates strategic planning sessions with executive leadership teams who have goals of intentionally improving diversity and inclusion. These experiences inspired the 2016 founding of Ellavate Solutions, an integrated DEI strategy firm. Enjoy the conversation…

You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via Apple Podcast or whatever platform you may choose):  #846 of Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast.

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