Toxic Culture: Workplace Diversity and Inclusion, For Me, or For You?
“Diversity is being invited to the party, inclusion is being asked to dance,” Verna Myers. By Karetta Hubbard, Lynne Revo-Cohen, Gwen Crider, and Dr. Chris Kilmartin Gwen Crider, an internationally recognized diversity expert, has been writing about, teaching and implementing successful diversity initiatives for more than twenty years. What follows are her thoughts about the […]
WAT-CAST – Karetta Hubbard and Lynne Revo-Cohen Talk About Sexual Harassment
The headlines keep coming, forcing another high level executive to resign after women come forward alleging sexual misconduct in the workplace. Karetta Hubbard and Lynne-Revo Cohen, launched NewPoint Strategies more than 30 years ago and built a reputation for helping corporations deal with serious issues, including sexual harassment and sexual assault. Along with Chris Kilmartin […]
Toxic Culture: Eraser Phrases Can’t Eliminate What Came Before or After
By Karetta Hubbard, Lynne Revo-Cohen, Gwen Crider, and Dr. Chris Kilmartin. Dr. Kilmartin provided the powerful phrases in this week’s article. The team filled in the rest ….. “An eraser phrase is a few words placed at the beginning, or end, of a sentence that allows the speaker to abdicate responsibility for offensive and/or prejudicial […]
Toxic Culture: When Does Individual Opinion Become Collective Wisdom?
By Karetta Hubbard, Lynne Revo-Cohen, Gwen Crider, and Dr. Chris Kilmartin After each article we ask for comments from readers, and interestingly, receive many responses representing various opinions. The following represent individual opinions that taken together represent the conversations occurring across America. Note the different perspectives, but especially the commonalities. Please feel free to answer […]
Toxic Culture: The Significance and Damage of Victim Blaming
By Karetta Hubbard, Lynne Revo-Cohen, Gwen Crider, and Dr. Chris Kilmartin Dr. Kilmartin wrote and provided the powerful thoughts in this week’s article. One of the questions asked by outside observers of sexual harassment or assault victims is, “Why did the person take such a long time to come forward to talk about the […]
Toxic Culture: Green Light, Yellow Light, Red Light
By Karetta Hubbard, Lynne Revo-Cohen, Gwen Crider, and Dr. Chris Kilmartin Many readers responded to the GREEN Light, YELLOW Light, RED Light guidelines (see the story) to identify the differences between appropriate and inappropriate behavior. All asked for more examples. We are familiar with the colors that everyone identifies with; Green Light – Go; Yellow […]
Toxic Culture: He Said…..She Said….She Didn’t Say…They Said…
By Karetta Hubbard, Lynne Revo-Cohen, Gwen Crider, and Dr. Chris Kilmartin Many readers wrote to ask our thoughts regarding the article in Babe, an online magazine interview with “Grace,” the fictional name of the young woman who had a date with comedian Aziz Ansari. Without repeating the numerous accounts of the evening already posted in […]
Toxic Culture: The #MeToo Movement
By Karetta Hubbard, Lynne Revo-Cohen, Gwen Crider, and Dr. Chris Kilmartin The #metoo movement exploded on social media shortly after Harvey Weinstein’s fall from his powerful position as the “movie maker” mogul creating Oscar-winning actors and movies. But long before this watershed event, women were harassed and assaulted, and it was perilous for many of […]