How to Address Racial Disparities, with Sara Taylor
How to address racial disparities? Sara Taylor discusses creating a more inclusive workplace by knowing how to address racial disparities.
Sara Taylor earned a master\u2019s 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 president of deepSEE Consulting and has worked with companies as large as Coca-Cola, General Mills, 3M Company, AARP, and numerous others. She has a new book, \u201cFilter Shift: How Effective People See the World,\u201d that explores how our unconscious is actually making choices and decisions for us, all without our knowing \u2014 and how to change that. On top of that, she also knows how to address racial disparities and we\u2019ll be talking about that in today\u2019s episode.
What you will learn from this episode about how to address racial disparities:- How Sara\u2019s own experience as a white woman in a mixed-race family has helped drive her passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion while also allowing her to know how to address racial disparities
- Why Sara created a recent episode of her podcast around what she wishes she had known earlier about racial injustice, in an effort to process her own pain
- Why Sara struggled with some of her own stories, and why we as humans naturally hold onto our pain and trauma
- Sara shares an exchange she had with another small business owner that led to racist comments directed at her husband
- How microaggressions can build up over time to create painful traumas that have lasting repercussions in our lives
- How an episode of John Qui\xf1ones\u2019s \u201cWhat Would You Do\u201d series titled \u201cThe Bike Thief\u201d highlights how we all experience the world differently
- Sara shares some of the shocking disparities and inequities that people of color experience in the United States
- How our societal systems have created these inequities and have done exactly what they were designed to do
- Why \u201cequality\u201d and \u201cequity\u201d aren\u2019t the same thing, and why we should be pursuing equity, not equality
- Sara explains and defines cultural competence, and she shares the five distinct stages of cultural competence
- How to address racial disparities and what steps business owners can take to create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace within their organizations
- SEEing the Difference Online Course: https://deepseeconsulting.thinkific.com/courses/seeing-the-difference
- What Would You Do\u2019s \u201cBike Thief\u201d Episode from John Qui\xf1ones: https://youtu.be/ge7i60GuNRg
- Dos and Don\u2019ts Checklist: https://www.deepseeconsulting.com/shop/dos-and-donts-checklist
- Websites:\xa0
- Filter Shift by Sara Taylor: https://amzn.to/2N2QWJL
- Email: sara@deepseeconsulting.com
- Podcast: https://whatsthedifferencepodcast.com/
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sarajanetaylor/
- Learn how to address racial disparities in your organization by scheduling a consultation with Sara Taylor
- Sell With Authority by Drew McLellan and Stephen Woessner: https://amzn.to/39y7x13
- Predictive ROI Free Resource Library: https://predictiveroi.com/resources/
- Stephen Woessner\u2019s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephenwoessner/
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