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How to Help Your DEI and Anti-Racist Champions Heal & Find Joy

DEI Leadership • Wellbeing • Inclusion Strategy By Richard Orbé-Austin, PhD • October 24, 2025 • Updated October 24, 2025 Summary Supporting DEI champions year-round means treating inclusion work as mission-critical: fund it, coach its leaders, create confidential healing spaces, measure progress, and celebrate wins regularly—not only during heritage months. Provide DEI leadership coaching, ongoing community support groups, paid recovery… Read More →

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5 Reasons Your Summer Job Search Isn’t Working (and How to Fix It)

Does July have you daydreaming about a Caribbean beach, a last-minute escape to Asia, a summer share in the Hamptons, or a backyard BBQ? Whatever your summer fantasy looks like, it’s often interrupted by a persistent thought you can’t shake: You want to leave your current job. Summer can be a tricky time to search for a new role. If… Read More →

Being Aware of Bias and Imposter Syndrome During Performance Reviews

Performance reviews are supposed to create clarity: what you did well, where you should grow, and how your work contributes to the organization. Yet for many professionals, review cycles trigger anxiety, spiraling self-doubt, and the fear of being “found out.”That dread is not random. During review season, two powerful forces often collide: Imposter syndrome — the internal experience of doubting… Read More →

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Disrupting Unconscious Bias in the Workplace: How to Identify, Interrupt, and Prevent It

Unconscious bias in the workplace is automatic, unintentional judgment that influences decisions about people and groups. You can’t fully stop bias from activating, but you can prevent stereotype application in hiring, reviews, and daily management by naming common bias types, spotting triggers (task, numbers, clarity, perceiver), and installing repeatable “bias interrupters” like structured interviews, calibrated rubrics, and manager coaching. What…

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How to Stop the Gaslighting and Mistreatment of Black Women in the Workplace

A professional woman coping with exhaustion and emotional strain at work — a reminder of why psychological safety and equity matter. Summary: To stop the gaslighting and mistreatment of Black women at work, leaders must close the pay gap, provide supportive sponsors, provide coaching that fits the culture, and enforce zero tolerance for bias and micro-aggressions. As a result, Black…

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First Steps of Practicing Mindfulness: How to Start and Build a Consistent Daily Practice

One of the most difficult aspects of beginning any mindfulness practice is simply getting started. Even when individuals understand the benefits of mindfulness—reduced stress, increased emotional regulation, improved focus, and greater well-being—the hurdle is often initiating a consistent routine. Research supports this challenge. In a study looking at habit formation, researchers found that it takes, on average, nine weeks of…