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A Systems Approach to Advancing Equity with Dr. Greer Jordan
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With professional training as an engineer and in organizational behavior, Dr. Greer Jordan shares how she has navigated approaching equity, inclusion and belonging work from a systems approach, always seeking to understand how people best function together.
Dr. Jordan also explains why we must remember that we are mutually dependent upon one another – and that we may not always agree, but it’s critical to work together to create a more inclusive world for all.
Highlights:
04:56 For some reason, I was a person who observed: What's the impact of the environment on people’s behavior? We have our individual locus of control, of course, but we also have our context.
07:22 I was never an advocate for making diversity training mandatory because it’s a developmental thing people need to do.
11:58 If you don't have that psychological well-being, if you don't feel safe in your environment, it’s kind of hard to extend yourself to other people, frankly. You’re in survival mode.
15:39 I know it sounds simple, but you need to talk with people and get to a certain point in a relationship with people where they are really telling you and really talking about what the actual need is, not what people’s wants are.
22:32 If we don’t agree that we need to coexist or that we’re mutually dependent, it’s hard even to get into the conversation in the first place.
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