AllVoices, Reimagining Company Culture

Welcome to Reimagining Company Culture, a series discussing emerging trends and priorities shaping the future of workplace culture and employee wellbeing. We highlight thought leaders who are constantly evolving their strategy and can provide insight to folks about how to address new business challenges.  AllVoices is on a mission to create safe, happy, and healthy workplaces for all, and we’re excited to learn from experts who share our mission.

In this episode of Reimagining Company Culture we’re chatting with April Powers, Chief Equity & Inclusion Officer at The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. April has over 15 years of experience in diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging on a global scale.

April Powers has over 15 years’ experience in diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, training, recruiting, community outreach and leadership. Prior to joining The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, April was running her own global inclusion consulting and training firm, First Impression Rx, which serves Fortune 50 government and nonprofit organizations. Her previous diversity roles at Nestlé USA and Amgen, as well as her nonprofit clients, bring a depth of knowledge on a global scale, with a nonprofit lens. 

About AllVoices

In today's workforce, people often don't feel empowered to speak up and voice their opinions about workplace issues, including harassment, bias, and other culture issues. This prevents company leadership from making necessary changes, and prevents people from feeling fulfilled, recognized, and included at work. At AllVoices, we want to change that by providing a completely safe, anonymous way for people to report issues directly to company leaders. This allows company leadership real transparency into what’s happening in their companies—and the motivation to address issues quickly. Our goal is to help create safer, more inclusive companies.

To learn more about AllVoices visit us at www.allvoices.co!

Thanks for listening! Follow us on LinkedIn @AllVoices, to join our community of listeners.

Welcome to Reimagining Company Culture, a series discussing emerging trends and priorities shaping the future of workplace culture and employee wellbeing. We highlight thought leaders who are constantly evolving their strategy and can provide insight to folks about how to address new business challenges.  AllVoices is on a mission to create safe, happy, and healthy workplaces for all, and we’re excited to learn from experts who share our mission.

In this episode of Reimagining Company Culture, we’re chatting with Brandon Parkes, CEO and Founder of Parkes Philanthrop. Brandon, named one of CauseArtists’s “20 Inspiring African Americans Impacting the World Through Social Impact & Social Innovation,” has supported over 350 organizations in capacity building initiatives and has a passion for empowering organizations looking to make a positive social impact.

Brandon Parkes recently served as a Senior Consultant for Bridge Philanthropic Consulting, LLC, the nations largest African-American fundraising firm in which he supported a wide variety of nonprofit clients including the Apollo Theater, National Collation of Black Civic Participation, and Global Community Charter School. Prior, he was the Nonprofit Engagement Manager at CariClub, an AI tech company that connects young professionals to leadership roles on nonprofit boards. Through this role, he supported over 350 organizations such as Teach for America, UNICEF, Make a Wish, and Museum of Modern Arts in capacity building initiatives. Previously, he worked in development for an international humanitarian nonprofit, Right To Play, helping to secure over a million dollars in funding annually. He has formerly worked in a corporate philanthropic capacity for companies such as Morgan Stanley and Toyota. Through these professional titles, he gained experience supporting effective philanthropic strategy that increases social impact, external/internal engagement and nonprofit capacity building. He was humbled to be named one of CauseArtists’s “20 Inspiring African Americans Impacting the World Through Social Impact & Social Innovation,” named one of Startup Boost’s NYC 33 under 33, and has been featured in several publications such as Nonprofit Technology News, Blacks in Technology, Blavity and WhyWeGive. It’s Brandon’s passion to empower any constituent looking to make a positive social impact.

About AllVoices

In today's workforce, people often don't feel empowered to speak up and voice their opinions about workplace issues, including harassment, bias, and other culture issues. This prevents company leadership from making necessary changes, and prevents people from feeling fulfilled, recognized, and included at work. At AllVoices, we want to change that by providing a completely safe, anonymous way for people to report issues directly to company leaders. This allows company leadership real transparency into what’s happening in their companies—and the motivation to address issues quickly. Our goal is to help create safer, more inclusive companies.

To learn more about AllVoices visit us at www.allvoices.co!

Thanks for listening! Follow us on LinkedIn @AllVoices, to join our community of listeners.

Welcome to Reimagining Company Culture, a series discussing emerging trends and priorities shaping the future of workplace culture and employee wellbeing. We highlight thought leaders who are constantly evolving their strategy and can provide insight to folks about how to address new business challenges.  AllVoices is on a mission to create safe, happy, and healthy workplaces for all, and we’re excited to learn from experts who share our mission.

In this episode of Reimagining Company Culture, we’re chatting with Dr. Shindale Seale, CEO, and Founder of SEADE Consulting. Dr.Seale is a cultural equity and diversity strategist with a track record of success in developing and teaching courses on Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in the workplace and academia.

Dr. Shindale Seale is the CEO and Founder of SEADE Consulting. Dr. Seale is a cultural equity and diversity strategist who employs leadership and performance optimization concepts to help entrepreneurs, corporate and academic stakeholders, and Diversity & Inclusion professionals identify and reach their organizational culture goals. In addition to her consulting services, Dr. Seale is the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Program Chair at the University of California Santa Cruz - Silicon Valley Extension, where she also develops and teaches courses on Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in the workplace and academia. Dr. Seale is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Redlands where she teaches Leadership, Organizational Change, and Business Communication.  

About AllVoices

In today's workforce, people often don't feel empowered to speak up and voice their opinions about workplace issues, including harassment, bias, and other culture issues. This prevents company leadership from making necessary changes, and prevents people from feeling fulfilled, recognized, and included at work. At AllVoices, we want to change that by providing a completely safe, anonymous way for people to report issues directly to company leaders. This allows company leadership real transparency into what’s happening in their companies—and the motivation to address issues quickly. Our goal is to help create safer, more inclusive companies.

To learn more about AllVoices visit us at www.allvoices.co!

Thanks for listening! Follow us on LinkedIn @AllVoices, to join our community of listeners.

Welcome to Reimagining Company Culture, a series discussing emerging trends and priorities shaping the future of workplace culture and employee wellbeing. We highlight thought leaders who are constantly evolving their strategy and can provide insight to folks about how to address new business challenges.  AllVoices is on a mission to create safe, happy, and healthy workplaces for all, and we’re excited to learn from experts who share our mission.

In this episode of Reimagining Company Culture, we’re chatting with Leang Chung, Founder and CEO of Pelora Stack. Born into a refugee family from Cambodia, Leang found herself in a lot of “firsts” in her family - first to attend a four-year college, first to earn a degree, first to get a job with an annual salary. Her experience inspired a passion for first’ and she founded Pelora Stack to help early stage founders, people teams and mid-career womxn prepare for their next stage of growth.

Bio:
Being born into a refugee family from Cambodia and growing up with limited resources, I found myself in a lot of ‘firsts’. The first in the family to attend a four-year college. The first to go away for school. The first to earn a Bachelor’s degree. The first to have a white collar job with an annual salary versus an hourly wage. The first to experience upward mobility in a professional career. The first to become a corporate executive.

My experience being ‘first’ inspired a passion for helping people and companies be successful in their ‘first’. The first time they’re scaling their team. The first time they build out their people operations infrastructure. The first time they design their culture. The first time they become a people manager. The first time they get appointed to a senior leadership role. The first time they negotiate their pay. The first time they make a career change. 

My vision for Pelora Stack is to become a destination for companies and people who are getting ready for their ‘first’. To help early stage founders, people teams and mid-career womxn prepare for their next stage of growth.

About AllVoices

In today's workforce, people often don't feel empowered to speak up and voice their opinions about workplace issues, including harassment, bias, and other culture issues. This prevents company leadership from making necessary changes, and prevents people from feeling fulfilled, recognized, and included at work. At AllVoices, we want to change that by providing a completely safe, anonymous way for people to report issues directly to company leaders. This allows company leadership real transparency into what’s happening in their companies—and the motivation to address issues quickly. Our goal is to help create safer, more inclusive companies.

To learn more about AllVoices visit us at www.allvoices.co!

Thanks for listening! Follow us on LinkedIn @AllVoices, to join our community of listeners.

Welcome to Reimagining Company Culture, a series discussing emerging trends and priorities shaping the future of workplace culture and employee wellbeing. We highlight thought leaders who are constantly evolving their strategy and can provide insight to folks about how to address new business challenges.  AllVoices is on a mission to create safe, happy, and healthy workplaces for all, and we’re excited to learn from experts who share our mission.

In this episode of Reimagining Company Culture, we’re chatting with Alyssa Petersel, CEO & Founder at MyWellbeing. Alyssa is an award winning writer, therapist and businesswoman whose team has supported more than 28 million people through mental health support and content.

Alyssa Petersel, LMSW is Founder and CEO of MyWellbeing (MyWellbeing.com), where she and her team connect people with the *right* therapist or coach, while supporting mental health providers in building their business and professional community. Named Forbes 30 Under 30 2021, one of Crain's New York Business Notable Women in Healthcare 2019, and one of Built in NYC's 50 Startups to Watch in 2020, Alyssa and her team have supported more than 28 million people through mental health support and content and have been featured in prominent publications like Forbes, Allure, HuffPost, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and more. Alyssa, also a writer and therapist, released her award-winning book, Somehow I Am Different, in 2016. A native New Yorker, in her off-hours, Alyssa enjoys spending time with her friends and family, social justice, and learning more about others' cultures and world views.

About AllVoices

In today's workforce, people often don't feel empowered to speak up and voice their opinions about workplace issues, including harassment, bias, and other culture issues. This prevents company leadership from making necessary changes, and prevents people from feeling fulfilled, recognized, and included at work. At AllVoices, we want to change that by providing a completely safe, anonymous way for people to report issues directly to company leaders. This allows company leadership real transparency into what’s happening in their companies—and the motivation to address issues quickly. Our goal is to help create safer, more inclusive companies.

To learn more about AllVoices visit us at www.allvoices.co!

Thanks for listening! Follow us on LinkedIn @AllVoices, to join our community of listeners.

Welcome to Reimagining Company Culture, a series discussing emerging trends and priorities shaping the future of workplace culture and employee wellbeing. We highlight thought leaders who are constantly evolving their strategy and can provide insight to folks about how to address new business challenges.  AllVoices is on a mission to create safe, happy, and healthy workplaces for all, and we’re excited to learn from experts who share our mission.

In this episode of Reimagining Company Culture, we’re chatting with Andrew Tuchfeld, Director of People Relations at Braze. With a background in talent and employee relations, Andrew is skilled at leading global people relations initiatives. Tune in to learn about Andrew’s thoughts on becoming and being an employee at Braze, return to office plans, fostering holistic company culture, and who is responsible for defining company culture.

Andrew Tuchfeld is an experienced HR leader who has held talent acquisition and employee relations roles at Gilt.com, KIND and Blue Apron. Andrew is laser-focused on the employee experience and skilled in coaching, talent and performance management, organizational design and workforce planning, DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) and employee engagement. Currently the Director of People Relations at Braze, Andrew has spent the past three years building and leading the company's global People Relations function (People Business Partner team).

About AllVoices

In today's workforce, people often don't feel empowered to speak up and voice their opinions about workplace issues, including harassment, bias, and other culture issues. This prevents company leadership from making necessary changes, and prevents people from feeling fulfilled, recognized, and included at work. At AllVoices, we want to change that by providing a completely safe, anonymous way for people to report issues directly to company leaders. This allows company leadership real transparency into what’s happening in their companies—and the motivation to address issues quickly. Our goal is to help create safer, more inclusive companies.

To learn more about AllVoices visit us at www.allvoices.co!

Thanks for listening! Follow us on LinkedIn @AllVoices, to join our community of listeners.

Welcome to Reimagining Company Culture, a series discussing emerging trends and priorities shaping the future of workplace culture and employee wellbeing. We highlight thought leaders who are constantly evolving their strategy and can provide insight to folks about how to address new business challenges.  AllVoices is on a mission to create safe, happy, and healthy workplaces for all, and we’re excited to learn from experts who share our mission.

In this episode of Reimagining Company Culture, we’re chatting with Coltrane Stansbury, Vice President of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at MacMillan Learning. Making impactful change is part of Coltrane’s DNA. He is an experienced DEI leader with an extensive background in business, policy, and community outreach. Tune in to learn about Coltrane’s thoughts on measuring DEI progress, fostering inclusive workplaces, making statements of solidarity, and much more!

Coltrane Stansbury currently serves as Vice President- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at MacMillan Learning.  In this role, Coltrane leads MacMillan’s diversity and inclusion programs and strategy as well as amplifies the work the company is doing in support of their people, programs, and culture.  Making impactful change is part of Coltrane’s DNA. He is an experienced DEI leader with an extensive background in business, policy, and community outreach. He comes most recently from Becton Dickinson & Co, PSEG, and Johnson & Johnson, where he was responsible for building DEI programs from the ground up.  

Prior to his corporate DEI work, Coltrane worked on equal employment opportunity and workforce development issues- helping to empower families, residents, and businesses in some of the most distressed communities nationally. That work has included serving as a Senior Policy Advisor to then Mayor Cory Booker (now U.S. Senator) in the City of Newark, NJ and as a Presidential Management Fellow in the federal service. 

Coltrane is very active in his community, serving on the boards of the Civic League of Greater New Brunswick and the United Way for Greater Newark.  He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampton University and a Master of Public Policy degree from Rutgers University's Bloustein School, where he was an Eagleton Fellow.  He also holds an Executive Leadership Certificate from Cornell University and a Certificate in Public Performance Management from Rutgers University.

About AllVoices

In today's workforce, people often don't feel empowered to speak up and voice their opinions about workplace issues, including harassment, bias, and other culture issues. This prevents company leadership from making necessary changes, and prevents people from feeling fulfilled, recognized, and included at work. At AllVoices, we want to change that by providing a completely safe, anonymous way for people to report issues directly to company leaders. This allows company leadership real transparency into what’s happening in their companies—and the motivation to address issues quickly. Our goal is to help create safer, more inclusive companies.

To learn more about AllVoices visit us at www.allvoices.co!

Thanks for listening! Follow us on LinkedIn @AllVoices, to join our community of listeners.

Welcome to Reimagining Company Culture, a series discussing emerging trends and priorities shaping the future of workplace culture and employee wellbeing. We highlight thought leaders who are constantly evolving their strategy and can provide insight to folks about how to address new business challenges.  AllVoices is on a mission to create safe, happy, and healthy workplaces for all, and we’re excited to learn from experts who share our mission.

In this episode of Reimagining Company Culture, we’re chatting with Lara McLeod, the Head of Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (JEDI) at Axon. Lara regularly works with civil rights non-profit organizations to influence social change. Tune in to learn about Lara’s thoughts on the corporate justice movement, the world of work post-COVID, her advice to companies establishing a justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion strategy, and much more!

Lara McLeod, the Head of Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (JEDI) at Axon, has always been passionate about equity, inclusion, civil rights, and social justice. A writer by trade, Lara spent her first professional years as a political journalist and UX writer before completely pivoting her career to focus on workplace culture, DEI, and social justice within the tech industry. Since then, Lara has had the pleasure of doing work that she absolutely loves in the JEDI realm at Microsoft, Zillow, and now Axon.

Along with her full-time role, Lara regularly works with civil rights non-profit organizations to influence social change, and she serves on the boards of City Year Seattle, VECTRE VR, and Seed&Spark.

About AllVoices

In today's workforce, people often don't feel empowered to speak up and voice their opinions about workplace issues, including harassment, bias, and other culture issues. This prevents company leadership from making necessary changes, and prevents people from feeling fulfilled, recognized, and included at work. At AllVoices, we want to change that by providing a completely safe, anonymous way for people to report issues directly to company leaders. This allows company leadership real transparency into what’s happening in their companies—and the motivation to address issues quickly. Our goal is to help create safer, more inclusive companies.

To learn more about AllVoices visit us at www.allvoices.co!

Thanks for listening! Follow us on LinkedIn @AllVoices, to join our community of listeners.

Welcome to Reimagining Company Culture, a series discussing emerging trends and priorities shaping the future of workplace culture and employee wellbeing. We highlight thought leaders who are constantly evolving their strategy and can provide insight to folks about how to address new business challenges.  AllVoices is on a mission to create safe, happy, and healthy workplaces for all, and we’re excited to learn from experts who share our mission.

In this episode of Reimagining Company Culture, we’re chatting with Tom Floyd, CEO and Founder of Flouracity. Tom is a learning and development professional with a track record of success as both a leader within tech companies including Facebook and Apple and as an entrepreneur running a private management consulting firm. Tune in to learn about Tom’s thoughts on giving and receiving feedback, current trends in negative feedback, turning negative feedback into actionable results, the relationship between microaggressions and feedback, and much more!

Tom Floyd is an executive coach and founder of Flouracity, a professional development company that creates intimate, transformational experiences to help managers grow in their careers, leaders flourish in their roles, and people become the best version of themselves.  Prior to Flouracity Tom was the Head of Manager Effectiveness at Facebook and brings a wealth of experience from working with a variety of companies across the tech industry.

About AllVoices

In today's workforce, people often don't feel empowered to speak up and voice their opinions about workplace issues, including harassment, bias, and other culture issues. This prevents company leadership from making necessary changes, and prevents people from feeling fulfilled, recognized, and included at work. At AllVoices, we want to change that by providing a completely safe, anonymous way for people to report issues directly to company leaders. This allows company leadership real transparency into what’s happening in their companies—and the motivation to address issues quickly. Our goal is to help create safer, more inclusive companies.

To learn more about AllVoices visit us at www.allvoices.co!

Thanks for listening! Follow us on LinkedIn @AllVoices, to join our community of listeners.