Mar
14
11:00pm
Inclusion Revolution | Daisy Auger-Dominguez in conversation with Isabel González Whitaker
By Cafe con Libros
A leading diversity executive offers step-by-step guidance for confronting racial bias in the workplace
We are in the midst of a global reckoning on race, and corporations are on high alert. But conventional approaches have fallen short, leaving nagging questions about next steps. Why do diversity trainings fail? What’s so wrong with a company’s “colorblind” workplace culture?
In Inclusion Revolution, Daisy Auger-Domínguez provides frank answers to why popular efforts fail. She then presents the definitive roadmap for revolution, through her dynamic step-by-step process: Reflect, Visualize, Act, and Persist. She offers proven, research-based strategies for racially inclusive management.
Racial inequality in the workplace is a problem we can solve. Inclusion Revolution offers the necessary tools for managers to address issues of race, power, and exclusion, to build change that lasts. Because through the best teams, companies can finally create a stronger future.
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Daisy Auger-Domínguez is the chief people officer at Vice Media Group. She was formerly Google’s director of global diversity and inclusion strategy and global head of diversity staffing. She also served as the VP, talent acquisition and workforce diversity at Disney ABC Television Group, and she was the founder and CEO of Auger-Domínguez Ventures, a consultancy specializing in inclusive workplace culture theory and practice. She has earned a Community Service Leadership Award from the New York City Council and was named one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in People en Español. She lives in Brooklyn.
Isabel González Whitakeris a Principal Advisor for the world’s largest healthcare charity where she leads C-suite thought leadership and executive visibility efforts especially at the intersection of Purpose. Isabel moved to Memphis from New York City where she was Deputy Editor of Billboard and prior to that Features Editor at InStyle. During her 18-year career as a journalist in New York, she wrote numerous cover stories and produced features on Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Derek Jeter, President-elect Joe Biden, Sec. Hillary Clinton, President Bill Clinton, as well as the World Trade Center attack and the Bataclan and Pulse tragedies. Isabel’s work has appeared in Time, The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Refinery29 among other outlets. Isabel is the co-author of Latin Chic: Entertaining with Style and Sass (HarperCollins) and executive producer of documentary short “Women in Music: Inspiring a Generation” featuring former First Lady Michelle Obama. In 2019, she co-edited and contributed the essay “Finding La Reina in Queen Bey” to Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (St. Martin’s Press), which received positive reviews in the New Times Review of Books, Time, Kirkus and more. In 2018, Isabel was selected to be a Presidential Leadership Scholar as determined by the Pres. Clinton, H. W. Bush, W. Bush and Johnson Presidential Centers. As a Scholar, she debuted the first park in the State of Georgia to be named for a Latinx individual, the Sara J. González Memorial Park, which President Clinton wrote “will have a lasting positive impact on the community [and] inspire all those who visit it in the years to come.” The Atlanta-based park is dedicated to themes of diversity, inclusion, unity and equity and demonstrates these values through pan-generational, community-centric programming and design. For her efforts with the park, Isabel received the 2018 Cox Corporation and Trust for Public Land Heroes Award and the 2018 Park Pride Inspiration Award. In 2021, Isabel received the Atlanta Hawks Hero Award, the Tulane University Community Impact Award, and the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Service Award. Isabel was the Scholar in Residence at Rhodes College 2018-2019.
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