Dr. Khaleel Seecharan - There Are Many Layers of Complexity Here

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Dr. Khaleel Seecharan is co-founder and managing partner at DEI Ready, an organizational consulting firm offering an evidence-based and data-driven approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion. His twenty-year career in higher education has involved leading and advising effective executive operations and integrated strategic planning and delivery. Among his notable achievements: helping launch a new medical school, helping launch a joint Harvard-Brigham public health research center, and overseeing the planning and development of an institutional strategic plan. 

Khaleel earned a doctorate in higher education management with distinction from the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a master's of public administration from Harvard University in addition to two degrees from Florida International University.

Quotes From This Episode

• "Very few leaders either have the capacity or the comfort level to speak about race, gender equality, and inequality."
• "People who lead diversity, equity, or inclusion offices can help their leadership feel comfortable with what’s going on and help design a strategy."
• "I'm a first-generation immigrant. I came to the United States as a child and grew up in the United States. And I talk a lot about hyphen identities...you make your own space, which is your hyphen, and then you have people meet you at your hyphen and stop trying to meet them in these categories your put in. So I find that to be a really interesting facet of myself that I've embraced."

Resources Mentioned In This Episode

• ThreeFoundational Tenents of DEI Ready's Work
  • Deliverology
  • Adaptive Leadership
  • Positive Deviance
• The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff and E. H. Shepard 

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