The Future of Work

Work won't survive Into the future without becoming more inclusive.

Just in case you need some data, check out this McKinsey report https://lnkd.in/e-99ZX-w.

Because of the incapacitation of 13+ years of academic training after high school, my voice on any matter was never enough. After all, I was taught to site my sources and I was not a valid, academic source.

It's taken me quite a few years in that journey to be able to hear my own voice and own that I, an afro-caribbean immigrant woman, mother to black, neuro-distinct humans, need to feel like I belong at work.

As in, I deeply crave meaningful work and to be working with people who feel like community to me. I belong to them, they belong to and with me and we feel like we can thrive together. I also needed to admit that working with people that don't feel like supportive community to me costs me too much in coping and masking and dealing and eventually starts to feel like internal violence.

I'm not alone in this feeling.

In fact, the research is pretty solid. Inclusion mediates a TON of bad stuff and has a BIG TON of multi-layered benefits.

I've seen so many companies trying to figure out their relationship to the environmental crisis and I applaud this. And yet I have some conflicting feelings. The approach to protecting the environment does not seem to include a conversation with nature convincing her to act right. We understand that the environment is biting us information about how unsustainable our interactions with it have been.

Well, people are nature. Let's stop negotiating with people to improve their performance, productivity and well being. Let's fundamentally change our environments and people's well-being, performance and productivity will respond.

Because we are nature.

We all have a part to play.

It starts with the first person you enlist to work in your home/work/favorite volunteer spot…