508: How to Be More Inclusive, with Stefanie Johnson

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Stefanie Johnson: Inclusify Stefanie Johnson is an author, professor, and keynote speaker who studies the intersection of leadership and diversity, focusing on how unconscious bias affects the evaluation of leaders and strategies that leaders can use to mitigate bias. Stefanie is an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business, teaching courses on leadership and inclusion. She is also a member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches program and was selected for the 2020 Thinkers50 Radar List. She is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and many other publications. In this conversation, Stefanie and I discuss her book Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams*. We look at how optimism may get in the way of building an inclusive workforce. Plus, Stefanie invites leaders to make public commitments and begin using metrics to track performance. Key Points Our two most basic human desires are to be unique and to belong. Leaders often end up with either cohesive teams of people who all act similarly or a lot of diverse individuals who don’t gel. Optimists intend well, but don’t initiate real change unless something triggers them to do so. Optimists should be more public with their commitment to be champions for uniqueness and belonging. Organizations and leaders should set metrics for diversity, just as they do for almost everything else. Resources Mentioned Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams* by Stefanie Johnson Inclusify Card Games by Stefanie Johnson Book Notes Download my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required). Related Episodes How to Make Inclusion Happen, with Deepa Purushothaman (episode 307) How to Lead Meetings That Get Results, with Mamie Kanfer Stewart (episode 358) How to Support Women of Color, with Minda Harts (episode 506) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	Diversity is a good starting point, but it is just the start.
0:04.0	In this episode, Stephanie Johnson invites us to take the next step
0:08.0	toward leading an inclusive team and workplace.
0:12.0	This is Coaching for Leaders episode five hundred, eight.
0:16.4	Produced by Innovate Learning,
0:18.8	Maximizing Human Potential. potential. and I'm your host Dave Stahophiac. Leaders aren't born.
0:35.0	They're made in this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom
0:39.0	through insightful conversations.
0:41.0	I know one of the areas that so many of us in our community have a heart for is how do we get better at supporting diversity and inclusion in our organizations.
0:51.0	And although we have a great heart for that, we often stop short of taking all the actions that we can in order to support that well and to take practical steps that are going to help us all get better.
1:03.3	I'm so glad today to be able to welcome someone who is absolutely an expert on this
1:07.6	is going to help us to take the next steps and actions to support organizations that really do look and sound the way we want them to.
1:17.3	I'm glad to welcome today Stephanie Johnson. She is an author, professor, and keynote speaker who studies the intersection of leadership and diversity,
1:26.5	focusing on how unconscious bias affects the evaluation of leaders and strategies that leaders can use to mitigate bias.
1:35.0	She's an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder's lead school of business teaching courses on leadership and inclusion.
1:42.0	She's also a member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 coaches program and was selected for the
1:47.0	2020 Thinkers 50 radar list. Stephanie is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and has been featured in many other media outlets including Forbes, The Economist, Newsweek, Time, Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg.
2:01.0	Her book is titled Inclusify the power of uniqueness and belonging to build
2:06.8	innovative teams. Stephanie, so glad to meet you. Oh, nice to meet you. We have a member of our community who has read over 200 books in the last year, which is amazing, and I asked her recently,
2:20.0	what is the book that has been the best of all the ones you've read?
2:23.6	And she said, it's your book.
2:25.5	It was so helpful and so useful to her.
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