Conflict Style: A Podcast on Different Perspectives
Conflict happens in every team. But in global and multicultural teams, misunderstandings often arise because culture shapes how we disagree, express emotions, and resolve conflicts. When we misinterpret the behaviour of colleagues from other cultures, trust can quickly erode.
Anna Kostecka, an associate of DiversiPro hosts the podcast What Works Across Cultures. In this episode, she speaks with DiversiPro’s founder and principal consultant, Hamlin Grange…
IDEACertified™: A Credible Standard for Inclusive, High-Trust Organizations
Despite the so-called “backlash” against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across both public and private sectors, organizations are facing increasing expectations to demonstrate real, measurable progress on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA). Good intentions and isolated training initiatives are no longer sufficient. What is required is evidence—grounded in data, aligned to legislation, and trusted by employees, stakeholders, and the public.
IDEACertified™ is DiversiPro’s trademarked, evidence-based certification program designed to achieve this goal. It provides organizations with a structured, defensible pathway to move beyond intention and toward sustained, organization-wide impact in IDEA practice…
Off the Bookshelf: What If I Say the Wrong Thing?
If I was paid every time someone – often it’s a senior leader or manager in an organization – asked me “what if I say the wrong thing?”, I’d be a very wealthy man…
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support Employee Mental Health
Strong mental health among employees is vital for building inclusive, productive, and cohesive workplaces because it directly affects how individuals engage, collaborate, and perform…
In Conversation With The Mental Health Commission of Canada
The mental health of employees is foundational to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive (DEI) organizational culture because psychological well-being enables individuals—especially those from marginalized or underrepresented groups—to engage fully and safely at work. Likewise, strong DEI programs can positively influence mental health by addressing systemic stressors and creating conditions for all employees to thrive.
The Power and Disempowering of Language in the Trump Era
James Baldwin viewed language as deeply tied to power, identity and historical reality, particularly for marginalized communities. Language, he wrote is “meant to define the other – and in this indispensable, cruelly dishonest role, it can be employed to obscure the truth.” Writers like Baldwin remind us that language is more than just a tool for communication—it shapes thought, reinforces power structures, and influences the way individuals perceive reality.
In Conversation With the Stratford Festival
“We’re getting to a place where we’re thinking across the whole experience: How do we welcome people in? And there’s something really joyful about that. So it’s not just the spreadsheet of it being a good business decision. It is the experience of the festival being enriched.”
– Anita Gaffney, Executive Director, The Stratford Festival
Five Good Ideas
We are in an era of tremendous change, where everything is being disrupted: governments, institutions, personal lives and the workplace. Innovation expert John Seely Brown calls it the Cambrian Moment.
The Reality of IDEA Must Include Accessibility
Nominated for the fourth consecutive year as Canadian Lawyer Magazine’s Top 25 Most Influential in the Human Rights category, Lorin MacDonald is one of Canada’s leading voices on disability issues. Over the last 30 years, Lorin has demonstrated her leadership, passion, and commitment to accessibility and inclusion in various volunteer and professional activities, all informed by her lived experience as a woman born with profound hearing loss.
Orange Shirt Day & National Truth and Reconciliation Day
We call upon the federal government, in collaboration with Aboriginal peoples, to establish, as a statutory holiday, a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour Survivors, their families, and communities, and ensure that public commemoration of the history and legacy of residential schools remains a vital component.” September 30th is the answer to this […]