Why diversity initiatives fail.. | Khalia Newell

Why diversity initiatives fail.. | Khalia Newell | TEDxCityUniversityLondon

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6 жыл бұрын

Khalia explores the need for greater diversity and inclusion to accelerate innovation during uncertain times. Khalia D. Newell is Vice President at Barclays where she works within the Core Governance and Infrastructure Team. The team focuses on enhancing the existing governance frameworks and infrastructure for the Barclays Group.
She has been identified as a Rising Star within Financial Services by We Are The City and the Black British Business Awards and has extensive experience in diversity and inclusion from her consulting work with several diversity networks and large public and private sector organisations. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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@witwisniewski2280 2 жыл бұрын

It takes many generations to unlearn bias and exclusionary thinking, as well as to learn how to fit in by being productive in another ethnic group's paradigm. These are things learned before age 4 by listening to and observing parents, and change little as one gets older. Change is a little bit per generation. It took 300 years to evolve from widespread slavery and servitude to this talk.

@Samantha11Rose 4 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏 BRAVO! Wonderful speach. Also I can see a story of mixed race or mixed cultured peoples and finding where people feel themselves fit in society.

@johnmaris1582 11 ай бұрын

It was doon to fail from the start. What do you people expect?

@sae4842 3 жыл бұрын

Hidden figures is an amazing film. It was beautifully made.

@michlazoo1975 4 жыл бұрын

women, people of color- all of these "minorities" have had to inherently work harder to get where they are. That's why they deserve their own category for awards. If we lived in a world where everyone had equal chances at success, then awards should obviously also be given indiscriminately. But we don't. It's a beautiful example of equity, not in the workplace but in a celebratory event!

@buzzcrushtrendkill 3 жыл бұрын

That makes no sense, other than to keep segregation alive. MLK. Jr's plea for people to be judged on content of character, not on the color of their skin has been completely lost.

@michlazoo1975 3 жыл бұрын

@@buzzcrushtrendkill One day it might be possible to fulfill that plea. But first it must be acknowledged that it is currently not extant. Which is precisely why we shouldn’t treat it as such. This is not a problem that can or should be solved by a “fake it till you make it approach” where we all pretend everything is equal. That’s exactly how systemic racism was born after actual segregation. We have to acknowledge that the world is not fair, and that some people had to work a lot harder to achieve certain goals- they had to battle wars that were wholly irrelevant to them in the first place. Pretending like the world is perfect will only facilitate oppression. I'm not saying it should always be like this- just while we get there.

@edwardk3 3 жыл бұрын

Since when did women have to work harder than men? That's ludicrous. Men put in way more hours. You live I fantasy land.

@FAMEROB 2 жыл бұрын

what awards are we talking about?

@ChristoverreK 2 жыл бұрын

That presumption that any/every one, as a minority, has "worked harder" than others is a self-exalting myth, in my actual experience. One that begs for favoring, instead.