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Welcome to the HBR ID a cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Kurt Nickish.

Has there been a time where a coworker said something insensitive or just plain

harmful and you thought to yourself, they didn't mean that, did they? They're a good

person. If I speak up, I might just make it worse or I don't want to hurt my working

relationship. What can I even do? For all the attention on diversity and inclusion that

organizations have been paying lately, the top down approach can fall flat at the team

level, especially says today's guest when there's little follow through. We're going

to focus today at the individual and team level, the kind of last mile of efforts to increase

equity and fight bias. Our guest today says we don't have to default to silence in our

teams. She works with companies to promote the active things each of us can do.

Triere Bryant is the co-founder and CEO of Just Work, an organization with the goal of

creating workplaces where everyone can do their best work. Triere, welcome.

Thanks for having me, Kurt.

Brought you to this work.

My life. So sitting at the intersections of being black and a woman, I would say I started

doing this work when I was in middle school, in a private school where I integrated my

class as a first non-white student, even at that age, understanding the dynamics of when

we are exclusive and we don't get this right, the impact that it can have. So I did that

in middle school, high school, at the Air Force Academy for the Air Force and throughout

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