Description: The authors outline both the inner work (raising our own individual awareness and creating new ways of thinking and being), and the outer work organizations must undertake. This includes honest and often uncomfortable discussions. And carrying out as core to operational business strategy and performance, policies and practices to reimagine a racially equitable workplace. Woven throughout The Business of Race are interviews with dozens of business professionals across myriad industries, fields and organizational levels. Their stories bring voice to the challenges and opportunities businesses face every day, and provide readers with the courage and tools to openly, honestly, and effectively address the deeply complex, emotional and intimidating dynamic of race and racism in the workplace.
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Margaret H. Greenberg is president of The Greenberg Group, a consulting firm founded in 1997 to coach executives and their teams to lead large-scale organizational change. She is recognized by the International Coaching Federation as a Professional Certified Coach. She is also co-author of Profit from the Positive, which has been translated into three languages, and developed into an online certificate program that has trained business leaders in 17 countries.
Gina Greenlee is an organizational development, project management, communications, training and educational professional with more than 30 years of experience. She specializes in experiential learning models and stages of readiness for behavioral change. She is trained in Advanced Facilitation by Johns Hopkins University and Johnson & Johnson to motivate demographically diverse populations in widely varied settings. The author of 17 books, Greenlee has been published in The New York Times Magazine and Essence magazine.