Get Energized and Pushback Against Anti-DEIB Forces ⚡️
Clarify and activate your workplace's vision to advance its 2024 DEIB priorities. Learn more by saving your seat for tomorrow's live workshop, Set Your 2024 DEIB Vision.
Over the past few years, external forces have intensified their attacks intended to undermine our collective DEIB workplace progress.
These attacks coupled with economic pressures have resulted in some companies abandoning their "performative" DEIB commitments.
Fortunately, other companies with strong leadership have doubled down on their substantive commitments during this alarming period of DEIB backlash.
No matter where your company lands on the matter, I'm curious, how are you personally recommitting to this work in the face of backlash?
Be an Ambassador of Hope
As a Belonging Champion, you have vision. You serve as an ambassador of hope. You can conceive of a different world of work.
In this world, you manage the work before you today, while also boldly imagining where you can lead it into the future.
This is a future where more of our colleagues have the motivation, skills, and commitment to transform moments of exclusion into moments of belonging.
2024 Vision
To help you bring hope and inspiration into your workplace this year, I welcome you to register for tomorrow’s live workshop, Set Your 2024 DEIB Vision.
The live workshop is based on content from my bestselling book, Imagine Belonging, and it will help you clarify your vision for the year ahead.
By the end of our time together, you will gain:
A clear 2024 DEIB vision to lead your team and guide your work.
The mindset required to activate your vision in the face of backlash.
A strategy to mitigate self-sabotaging behaviors that try to undermine your vision.
A community of like-minded professionals who want you to succeed in this work.
The session kicks off tomorrow at 1 pm PT/ 4 pm ET. There, you’ll be the first to learn about the Belonging Circle, a program designed to help you implement your vision.
Retire the Firefighter, Become the Artist
If you're eager to begin shaping your DEIB vision for 2024, I encourage you to begin by retiring one mindset and cultivating another required to realize your vision.
Are you a firefighter? Ask yourself, “Do I describe being a DEIB champion as a role similar to being a"firefighter," "problem-solver," "fixer," or "troubleshooter."
Are you reactionary? Are you "putting out fires," or responding to criticism by taking defensive positions, protecting your precious workplace gains?
Are you activating your vision from the present? Are you asking this question to advance your DEIB vision: “What should I do now to make my DEIB vision a reality?”
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, consider the merits of cultivating a different mindset. You can begin by answering the following questions:
Are you an artist? Ask yourself, “Could I describe being a DEIB champion as a role similar to a cultural "creator," "inventor," "architect," or "visionary"?
Are you a visionary? Can you imagine living in your future vision - the future of work? How does it feel when you are valued, supported, and connected at work?
Are you activating your vision from the future? Are you asking this question to advance your DEIB vision: What did I do now to make my DEIB vision a reality?
By embracing the artist’s mindset, you are imagining a place in your future - perhaps 12 months from today - and this helps name what to do now to realize your vision.
Example. If it was January 24, 2025, what would DEIB success look like? With that vision in mind, imagine looking back to this day and asking:
What did I do on January 24, 2024 to help activate my workplace's future DEIB successes?
Answering this question will help clarify your vision. It empowers you to work backward in time to realize it. Tomorrow, you will get to practice this mindset.
Imagine Future Possibilities
If you are ready to retire from being a firefighter, and willing to become an artist, register for tomorrow’s Set Your 2024 DEIB Vision!
Want to get started today? Need support activating your vision throughout the year? Then listen to the Imagine Belonging podcast here and read the book here.
These resources, along with the Belonging Membership Community, are available year-round to offer needed support, and to celebrate your successes, big and small.
I look forward to learning more about your vision for the year ahead, and working together to help you activate it 💫.
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