224: Davey Shlasko | Why DEI Matters And Dismantling White Supremacy

DEI programs are being shut down left and right, and the toxic culture of white supremacy is becoming more rampant. This has led to more and more people making white privilege a norm in their own workplace cultures. Davey Shlasko, founder of Think Again Training, leads the revolution in shaping inclusive, diverse, and anti-racist leaders. Joining Corinna Bellizzi, he shares how to build the right leadership that addresses bias, discrimination, perfectionism, and an unfair focus on hierarchy. He also discusses how the worsening perspectives on DEI adversely impact the state of economy, minimum wage, business hiring practices, and a person’s choice of pronouns.

About Guest:

Davey is the founder and director of Think Again Training & Consulting, a collaborative consulting practice that supports organizations to integrate equity, inclusion and social justice into their long-term planning and everyday practices. Davey co-created the Antiracist Development Group for white managers, an 8-week cohort program based in frameworks of intersectional social justice and challenging white supremacy culture that prepares white people in leadership roles to bring antiracist practices into their management, supervision, planning and everything about their leadership.

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/90517341

Guest Website: https://www.thinkagaintraining.com/blog/whyantiracismskills

Guest Social: 

https://www.instagram.com/thinkagain_tc/

https://www.youtube.com/@shlasko

https://www.facebook.com/thinkagaintraining

Anti-Racist / DEI Reading List

• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown
• Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown
• How to be an Anti-racist by Ibram X Kendi
• How to be a (Young) Anti-racist by Ibram X Kendi 
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
• White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun and Kenneth Jones
• The Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader Edited by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Jemima Pierre, Junaid Rana 
• The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
• The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jorene Freeman, 1972
• Beware the Tyranny of Structurelessness

Anti-Racist / DEI Podcasts to Listen To:

• Code Switch 
• 1619 
• Octavia’s Parables 
• Seeing White 
• Mother Country Radicals 

Show Notes: Final audio

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