Accessibility is more than just physical accommodations; it encompasses a broad spectrum of considerations to ensure everyone can fully participate and thrive in the workplace.

One of the most powerful ways to advance DEI efforts is through cultivating allyship and advocacy among employees. By actively engaging in allyship and advocacy, individuals can leverage their privilege, influence, and resources to support marginalized colleagues and drive meaningful change within their organizations.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives allow organizations to create thriving and equitable workplace or organizational cultures.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) have become critical components of successful and thriving workplaces, helping to deepen innovation, collaboration, and employee satisfaction. While larger corporations often have dedicated resources for DEI initiatives, small businesses face unique challenges in implementing these strategies.

In the ever-evolving landscape of work, the future beckons with a promise of inclusive workplaces that celebrate diversity and prioritize equity. As an experienced diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant and researcher, let's embark on a journey to uncover what lies ahead and discover practical ways to pave the path to inclusivity at work.

Determining the cost of your goals and dreams is a helpful way to focus your energy and identify your priorities. It can also help you identify the activities that are not aligned with your goals and can be removed from our to-do lists, you know the lists that are never finished?! In addition to the cost, consider the timeline. Some huge goals may take more than 12 months to complete.

Using a human rights framework, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are no longer buzzwords; they are critical elements for the success of organizations. Nonprofits and businesses alike are recognizing the importance of fostering diverse and inclusive work environments. However, the real opportunity lies in measuring the results of your DEI initiatives.

In this week’s blog post, I reflect on promising practices around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the not-for-profit sector.

The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign is a global initiative that kicks off on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and runs until December 10, Human Rights Day.

Workplace racial equity or diversity audits engage organizations in a comprehensive evaluation of their policies, procedures, and practices to identify barriers people from equity-deserving communities experience.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but I want to consider more broadly the health of Black women in Canada. Healthcare is a fundamental human right, yet in Canada, disparities persist in access to quality healthcare, particularly for marginalized communities.

In the journey towards creating more inclusive and equitable workplaces, leadership plays a pivotal role. When leaders actively champion diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, they set the tone for the entire organization and inspire meaningful change.

This month is a special time for entrepreneurs and small business owners across Canada as it marks Small Business Month! It's a month to celebrate the hard work, innovation, and resilience of small businesses that form the foundation of our economy. Small businesses contribute significantly to job creation, purchasing power, economic growth, and the unique character of our communities.

September 30 is National Truth and Reconciliation Day, or Orange Shirt Day across Canada. Orange Shirt Day was first recognized ten years ago by the Williams Lake community in British Columbia.

In a world constantly evolving, the importance of continued education and growth cannot be overstated. As a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) expert with two decades of experience in higher education, I've experienced the transformative benefits of e-learning for staff members across various industries. In this blog post, I'll explore how e-learning can play a pivotal role in fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within organizations, while also enhancing the professional development of staff.

Incorporating effective project and program evaluation into your operations is a worthwhile investment. It empowers you to ask interesting questions, seek the answers, make informed decisions, optimize processes, and ultimately improve the success of your projects and programs.

Join me on this exploration into the current landscape of gender disparities, uncover the strategies and initiatives that hold promise, address the challenges that persist, and chart out actionable steps that individuals, entrepreneurs, and society at large can take. Together, let's pave the way for a Canada where every individual's potential knows no boundaries, regardless of gender and other identities.

Small businesses are described as companies with less than 100 employees, play an important role in our economy, and contribute greatly to Canada's growth.

Each week, I focus on a different theme in my online content and this week’s theme is community-based research. As a social scientist, research is very important to me because of the stories research tells us. For me, data reveals our understanding of the world and societies and I see my role as a researcher to collect and analyze data that uncovers these stories.

This week we acknowledge and celebrate the vibrancy of Caribbean cultures. I want to acknowledge that the region was a rich place long before the arrival of Europeans. The Caribbean is a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-faith region and I like to say served as the world’s foray into multi-culturalism. The first people of the region are the Taino or Arawak peoples who traveled from South America to the Caribbean over 4000 years. It is estimated that the Taino people numbered almost 3 million and were the largest group in the region. Indigenous peoples are said to be extinct, believed to have succumbed to the diseases Europeans brought to the region, or from the cruelties of enslavement, but this is not true and contributes to their erasure from history and their invisibility in current communities. Tainos and other Indigenous peoples are found throughout the region today and the InterAmerican Development Bank estimates that Indigenous peoples comprise 10% of the population in Central and South America and the Caribbean.