Ted Audio Collective. to how to be a better human. I'm your host Chris Duffy. Today on the

podcast we've got Equity Expert Sarah Sanford. Sarah is the author of

Inclusion Inc. How to Design Intersectional Equity into the workplace.

Sarah created a playbook and a set of standards that can help organizations and people bypass their biases and become more inclusive.

That work is informed by her own experiences as well as

loads of research and one of the things that I find so exciting about Sarah is

that she's laser focused on changing how workplaces operate. Not just how people think. So, you know,

when I talk about this show, when I talk about this podcast, I always try and tell people

that our goal is to take brilliant people who share these big ideas and then say,

okay great, you are so smart and you are so interesting, but what would a regular person like me actually do?

Right, like how does a regular person put these ideas into place in our everyday lives?

And I think Sarah is amazing at that. So today our episode is all about how do you go beyond

good intentions to actually making change.

Here's a clip from Sarah's talk at TEDX Seattle.

Many businesses think they're addressing the problem because they provide training.

Eight billion dollars worth of training a year,

according to studies from the Harvard Business Review.

These same studies also conclude that these trainings don't work

and often backfire. The other solution has been to ask women to change their own behavior, to lean in, to sit at the table,

negotiate as often as men, oh and get more training.

Women currently earned the majority of college degrees, outperformed their peers and key leadership skills

and are running businesses that outperformed the competition.

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