Do you understand the power dynamics in your workplace and your role in them? Do you know how often your colleagues experience harassment? Have you experienced harassment? Power Dynamics and Awareness Power dynamics are tricky and insidious. Our society is built on...
Erica Ifill is an economist, columnist, and founder of Not In My Colour, an intersectional business consultancy that addresses the systems and policies that prevent equity at all levels in the workplace. If the makeup of an organization is such that Black employees...
Like Donald Trump’s latest idiotic tweet, climate change is trending. But, as usual, communities of colour are back of the bus when it comes to environmental protection in Canada. Didn’t see that coming. Like everything else, climate change and the environmental...
I never thought it could happen to me. I don’t know why; statistics show 43% of women have experienced some sort of sexual harassment in a work environment. But I was different, right? I was poised and professional, close to the head of the organization, and aside...
As I write this post, the Women’s March is in full swing. Women across the globe came out of their latte’d existences to protest the democratically-elected new President of the United States. For many women attending that March, the last 8 years have been commanded by...
