ATD DEI Podcast

Greg Jenkins, a United States Army veteran and Founder and CEO of Greg Jenkins Consulting, offers organizational best practices for including veterans in the workplace and discusses the value of lifelong learning in DEI initiatives. 

Greg Jenkins

Greg Jenkins Consulting LLC

DEI Volunteer leadership, Inclusion Allies Coalition (IAC)

DEI Volunteer leadership, Inclusion Allies Coalition (IAC) on LinkedIn

ATD Troops to Trainers initiative 

Maria Ho, Manager of ATD Research Services, discusses the outcomes of the ATD research report, DEI&B Education for Employees. The findings shed light on the growth of DEI&B programs, why choice is important in DEI&B training, and how programs are dealing with filing and reporting complaints. 

DEI&B Education for Employees

ATD Research

Sharon Boller, design thinking expert and training and development leader, shares her insight on how design thinking can be used to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion, and how to make the design thinking process itself more inclusive.

Sharon Boller

Design Thinking for Training and Development

Sharon’s Giving Circle 

Britne Jenke, CPLP and long-time instructional designer, discusses how talent development professionals can adopt an inclusive design philosophy and make training accessible for all learners.

Britne Jenke

Inclusive Pixelation

Microsoft Inclusive Design Toolkit

Designing Accessible Learning Content by Susi Miller

Sabrina-Yvette d'Almeida, Chief Talent and Equity Officer at The Children's Law Center, discusses how talent development professionals can help foster inclusive leadership behaviors, and shares examples of conventional words of wisdom about leadership that people should let go of.

Sabrina-Yvette d'Almeida

Sejal Thakkar, Chief Civility Officer at TrainXtra, explains how civility fits into conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion, and offers her perspective on how to combat workplace bullying.

Sejal Thakkar

TrainXtra 

Sejal's TED Talk

Lisa M. Ong, President and Founder of Wishing Out Loud LLC, offers insight on how organizations can build support for Asian American and Pacific Islander employees into their cultures during AAPI Heritage Month and sustain it throughout the year. 

Lisa M. Ong

Wishing Out Loud, LLC on LinkedIn

Wishing Out Loud, LLC website

Ascend Leadership

Stop AAPI Hate

Seena Mortazavi, CEO of Chronus, and Arezoo Riahi, Director of Diversity & Belonging at Autodesk, describe how mentoring can help advance and sustain DEI initiatives and offer best practices for developing inclusive mentoring programs.

https://chronus.com/resource-center

https://chronus.com/inclusive-workplace-culture

https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging

https://twitter.com/autodesklife

https://www.linkedin.com/company/autodesk/life/

Cachet Prescott, founder of Shift Matters, and Mike Sanders, Associate Director of Partnerships at the National Telecommuting Institute, discuss the types of inequities that can arise during remote training, and how talent development professionals can use inclusive design and delivery to combat those inequities. 

Cachet Prescott

Shift Matters

All Things (Un)learned podcast

Mike Sanders

Legends of Learning

Inclusive Talk

NTI@Home

In this bonus episode, thought leaders Rita Bailey, Elaine Biech, and Tonya Wilson answer unanswered questions that were asked during ATD's three-part DE&I discussion series. 

Watch the recordings from this discussion series here: https://www.td.org/diversity-inclusion-resources

Download a Q&A document based on this podcast discussion here: https://www.td.org/blogs/dei-discussion-series-answering-unanswered-questions  

Download the DE&I discussion series resources document here: https://www.td.org/atd-blog/de-i-discussion-series-resources