Mohammed Farshori: The Beauty in Diversity & The Key to Happiness

"Your career is what you are paid for, your purpose is what you are made for." —  Mohammed Farshori

In this episode, Nozomi and Mohammed discuss:

• What a side resume is and how it connects to your happiness. 
• Investing in your dream job with clarity. 
• The importance of belonging in diversity and inclusion. 
• Activism throughout the generations to support the future. 

Key Takeaways:

• There is no such thing as work-life balance - sometimes one will take over and be more pressing than the other. 
• The world needs allies who understand their privilege. We all have privilege when it comes to different things. 
• Women’s rights are not just women’s rights. The same goes for any group of people. Learning about and standing up for others around you is the right thing to do. 
• We all have biases. In order to really understand others, we have to recognize that and do the work to not allow them to influence us. 

"If you remember a few years back, we only talked about diversity, then slowly, we started talking about inclusion, then we started talking about equity. Now we're talking about justice and belonging. If you miss one of them, then you're not achieving anything." —  Mohammed Farshori

"The privilege comes when you stand up for others, you make sure that you're talking about them when they're not in the room, and you're standing up for them when they're not in the room." —  Mohammed Farshori

About Mohammed Farshori: Mohammed Farshori is a Global Community Engagement Leader (Corporate Social Responsibility) at AT&T, member of the NAMI Board of Directors and a member of NAMI North Texas. As a strategic global CSR and DEI leader, he is recognized for his passion for diversity, inclusion, and community engagement. He has successfully led award-winning business diversity groups at local and national levels, and his efforts have been instrumental in taking nonprofits in the U.S. to new heights.

He is the co-founder of the nonprofit Faith@Work. Mohammed also serves on the advisory board of the United Nations Foundation Girl Up campaign and the University of Texas Dallas’s Diversity Advisory board. He also supports the North Texas AAPI community in his current roles, as Trustee India Association of North Texas, Vice Chairman — Asian Chamber of Texas, and advisor Mahatma Gandhi Memorial of North Texas.

Mohammed is a recipient of the Dallas Business Journal’s Minority Business Leader award 2019, Immigrant Journey Award 2020, and the Asian Chamber of Texas’s Diversity Leader Award. In his day job, Mohammed is Director of Global Community Engagement at AT&T, responsible for managing, building, and expanding community and employee engagement efforts in Europe and Asia.

Born and raised in India, Mohammed is a graduate of Osmania University, Hyderabad India. He also completed an MBA Essentials Program from the London School of Economics. He currently lives in Plano, Texas, with his wife Amra Sayed, a speech-language pathologist, and their two children.

Connect with Mohammed Farshori:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfarshori/

Website: https://about.att.com/csr/home.html

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Show notes by Podcastologist: Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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