Tag Archives: Diversity

Easy Accommodations You Can Offer Without Being Asked

Photo by Austin Kehmeier on Unsplash All employees with qualifying disabilities are legally able to request accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act. However, making those accommodation requests can often take a lot of time, be complicated, and often embarrassing for the person asking. On paper, it’s a pretty straightforward process but in actuality, it’sContinue reading “Easy Accommodations You Can Offer Without Being Asked”

Where to Start When You Have a Neurodivergent Employee

If this was shared with you, your employee would like to talk about their ADHD and how it affects their work. However, before that conversation, please familiarize yourself with these pages.

What Your Neurodivergent Employees Wish You Knew

There are so many stigmas around having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and the name certainly doesn’t help. Being an adult with ADHD in the workplace can be hard especially when your boss doesn’t know what’s going on.

The Festival that Never Was: Jubilee 2020

Now everything has been thrown out of the window because of a pandemic. At the same time, the conversation about BIPOC people is at a level it’s never been before. I was wondering how theatre-makers were feeling.

A Reflection on “Everyday Leadership” Tedx Toronto with Drew Dudley

To me, a leader is someone who uses small acts in everyday life to make better the world of people around them. When it becomes a practice that informs every decision you make, you don’t always remember the act that affected someone else’s life, like the lollipop example that Drew shared.

Why Bother Getting A Degree Now?

For people of my parent’s generation, college degrees equal money and power. Don’t get me wrong, acquiring both of those things would be lovely. But that isn’t the reason that I’ve committed myself to spend every other Saturday for the next two years of my life in a room with the same group of people. I did it to show myself that I can.

Bryan Bennet – Leadership as Northwestern Faculty

It’s fascinating to me how often something going on in the course perfectly matches something going on in my work or personal life. Recently, I was tasked with bringing on the data visualization software Tableau. While I love data, the visualization element of it was completely new to me. Each day I was teaching myselfContinue reading “Bryan Bennet – Leadership as Northwestern Faculty”

Jen Henderson and Being a Change Agent

The change that I will be discussing today is a bit unusual, which is part of the reason I picked it. As part of the LGBTQIA+ community this change feels very timely and one we will see more of. Also, as someone without a background in Human Resources, it was exciting for me to examineContinue reading “Jen Henderson and Being a Change Agent”