Planning for long periods of downtime offers freedom from fear — Confession: Emerging from quarantine has been really hard for me. I’m the CEO of a rapidly growing business that pivoted to fully virtual during the pandemic. Nonetheless, watching countless people live their lives, maskless and in the company of strangers and friends has sometimes left me feeling dejected and isolated…

Unexpected, welcomed, and sometimes unusual — Large numbers of white women are undergoing a metamorphosis, and countless others have a track record of genuine grace. As new acolytes of cross-racial kindness stumble and fumble their way through awkward interactions, these wide-eyed allies are earning their stripes. From Beckys to Karens, white women have come under fire…

Is that VIP title and matching salary worth the headache? — Between leadership hiring you, only to derail your career, and a position with little to no standardized template for success — Chief Diversity Officers (CDOs) are an experimental class of executives lingering on thin ice. I founded a diversity firm nearly 20 years ago, so I’ve audited, beheld, and built…

Many of us will age into disability, so ration your privilege responsibly — Sometimes we simply need a shift of perspective. Disability is the one dimension of diversity that any of us can enter in the blink of an eye. One rogue sliver of DNA, an accident, a pharmaceutical contraindication, or just staying alive long enough to watch your body deteriorate can thrust…

The stress and shame of testing positive doesn’t spare the vaccinated — 2020 happened, then came 2021. Pandemic, racial uprisings, civil rights upheavals and polarization across myriad spectra. Yet here you are reading this article. You and I, unlike countless souls on this planet who’ve died in the past two years, have survived. …