Inclusion Coaches Part II, with Sara Taylor and Gina Kundan
Release Date: 05/04/2022
The 5 Stages of Cultural Competence with Sara Taylor
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The 5 Stages of Cultural Competence What You Will Learn: What the 5 stages of cultural competence are. How the first three stages of developing cultural competence cultivate cultural humility. How cultural humility encourages cultural responsiveness. About Sara Taylor Sara Taylor earned a master’s degree in Diversity and Organizational Development from the University of Minnesota. She served as a leadership and diversity specialist at the University of Minnesota for five years and as director of diversity and inclusion for Ramsey County, Minnesota, for three years. Sara is the founder and...
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are Good for Business with Sara Taylor
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are Good for Business What You Will Learn: The ways that diversity, equity, and inclusion promote innovation. How diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts influence long-term employee retention. Why inclusive, equitable, and diverse organizations generate a strong sense of belonging for employees. The cost of losing an employee due to lack of DEI standards. The value of managers maintaining a firm commitment to diversity. How cultural competence allows us to be our best selves in diverse workplace environments. About Sara Taylor Sara Taylor earned a...
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What is Diversity? With Sara Taylor
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What is Diversity? With Sara Taylor What You Will Learn: The value of answering the question “what is diversity?” How diversity was once defined, compared to the way organizations are encouraged to define it today. What aspects or characteristics of a person should be calculated into “diversity” metrics and where to draw the line. The limits organizations face when trying to implement diversity programs. The importance of finding out why people with specific identities are not finding their place in your organization. About Sara Taylor Sara Taylor earned a master’s degree in...
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Predicting Recession Outcomes with Organizational Diversity with Sara Taylor
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Predicting Recession Outcomes with Organizational Diversity What You Will Learn: What the Great Recession can teach us about the impact of diversity in organizations How diversity can impact your bottom line The difference between companies that thrived or flatlined between 2006 and 2014 What five marginalized groups impacted organizations the most What five key experiences these groups highlighted as having the greatest impact on them Where fairness, inclusivity, and validation matters for marginalized groups About Sara Taylor Sara Taylor earned a master’s degree in Diversity and...
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Women's Wealth and Pay Equity Part III, with Sara Taylor
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Women’s Wealth and Pay Equity Part III What You Will Learn: More about the insights into women’s wealth that Robyn Ross developed over 20 years in the finance workforce. How the talent acquisition system in the financial services industry is currently backward compared to other industries. What women are doing to stand up for themselves and correct the system. Why diversity is the financially wise choice for financial services companies to make. How to allow people to make honest mistakes that make your company better. What we can do to be more vulnerable about our own biases regarding...
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Women's Pay and Wealth Equity: Part II, with Sara Taylor
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Women’s Pay and Wealth Equity: Part II What You Will Learn: Women earn less, and have less wealth to invest with The majority of investment management firms are owned by white men; less than 1% by women Why women get worse advice from financial advisors How women in investing outperform men by 40 basis points How gender plays a role in the treatment of investors by advisors and firms The effect of biases on wealth equity in society About Sara Taylor Sara Taylor earned a master’s degree in Diversity and Organizational Development from the University of Minnesota. She served as a...
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Breaking Down the Wealth Gap, Part 1 with Sara Taylor
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Breaking Down the Wealth Gap, Part 1 What You Will Learn: What is Equal Pay Day, and what does it represent? How pay disparities between men and women increase for different ethnic groups Where women are continuously losing wealth outside of their jobs How much longer would a woman have to work than a man in a single year to earn the same wealth How education level actually increases the wealth gap The hiring and promotion gap between men and women About Sara Taylor Sara Taylor earned a master’s degree in Diversity and Organizational Development from the University of Minnesota. She...
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Cultivating an Equitable Hybrid Workplace: Part 2 with Sara Taylor
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Cultivating an Equitable Hybrid Workplace: Part 2 What You Will Learn: Why it’s important to consider the impact your decisions have on individuals in the workplace How our unconscious biases create distrust Why assuming difference will help us to break away from unconscious bias Why we should be outcome-focused; managing work over managing people How distrust of our workers keeps us from cultivating equity Strategies that can help us see other perspectives and do more to create equity Examples of the pitfalls leadership often faces when making decisions about equity About Sara Taylor...
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The Pitfalls of Creating Equality over Equity: Part I, with Sara Taylor
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The Pitfalls of Creating Equity over Equality, Part 1 What You Will Learn: The difference between equality and equity in the workplace How approaching equity from the minimization stage (we’re all the same) is actually creating more inequity How the status quo perpetuates ineffective strategies and practices at work Why focusing on the outcome of work (rather than the input) positively contributes to creating equity How “fairness” keeps us in minimization and doesn’t achieve what we want it to Why we should challenge status quo thinking in a push for equity About Sara Taylor Sara...
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What Florida’s Stop WOKE Act Means for Organizations, with Sara Taylor
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What Florida’s Stop WOKE Act Means for Organizations What You Will Learn: What is Florida’s Stop WOKE Act How this will affect educational and workplace organizations in the future What motivated this type of legislation to be created What the bill is trying to achieve vs. what it will actually achieve How some of the bill’s overarching concepts are okay but fall flat in reality How this bill promotes continued polarization and minimization (stages 1 and 2 of cultural competence) Why the most important place to address cultural differences is still in schools and workplaces About Sara...
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- How working as a Resident Advisor during college introduced Gina to DEI as a profession
- In what ways bias impacts productivity in the workplace, and how to overcome it
- How peer equity/inclusion coaches fit into the MnDOT organization
- Why it’s important to contribute to DEI conversations that are already being held
- How to select peer equity/inclusion coaches for your organization
- What are the most important parts of peer equity coach training
- Why it’s crucial that peer inclusion coaches know what is beyond the scope of their job
About Gina Kundan
Gina Kundan is Deputy Director and D&I Manager for the office of Equity and Diversity with MnDOT. She has a strong passion for equity and remains committed to integrating a culture of inclusion into best practices.
Gina holds a Master’s degree in Public Affairs from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School, focusing on culturally competent leadership and management, and a Master’s degree in Social Theory from Hamline University. She is a certified Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), Intercultural Conflict Styles (ICS) administrator, and a trained mediator.
Making good use of her BFA in Dance from Wright State University, Gina spent several decades performing and teaching. She is currently board Chair for Ananya Dance Theatre. She’s a proud mother, grandmother, spouse, and auntie.
How to connect with Gina Kundan:
- Website:
- Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GinaKundan
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gina-kundan-ma-mpa-ba53231/
How to Connect with Sara Taylor:
- Website: www.deepseeconsulting.com
- Twitter: @deepseesara