Imagine Belonging at Work

Rhodes Perry, Bestselling Author & Belonging Strategist
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If you have ever felt disconnected, excluded, or that you just didn’t matter at work, then this podcast is for you. Your host, Rhodes Perry, 2x bestselling author of Imagine Belonging and Belonging at Work, introduces you to inclusive leaders, visionaries, and change-makers. This show was created for people like you – people ready to imagine and build belonging at work. In this podcast, we dare to imagine workplace cultures that have yet to exist…until now. It recognizes that leading this kind of transformative work can be both thrilling and intimidating. You’ll hear inspiring stories from inclusive leaders who have boldly imagined a new way to lead, build teams, and structure the future of work. You’ll learn how they moved beyond their limiting beliefs, giving themselves permission to envision and then build an enduring culture of belonging at work. This kind of proven visioning work results in powerful individual, interpersonal, and organizational transformation. During your daily commute, workout, or leisure time, allow Rhodes Perry to share actionable advice, and introduce you to some of today’s most inspiring DEI thought leaders, all while modeling ways to lead with vulnerability as they bring their full selves to these conversations. Each episode explores the journey of the successful inclusive leader who reflects on the ups and downs of building belonging at work, all to inspire you to take action, and unapologetically bring as much of your authentic self to work, as you desire.

  1. DEI Now: Leading with Integrity and Inclusion with McKensie Mack and Ellen Pao

    10 OCT.

    DEI Now: Leading with Integrity and Inclusion with McKensie Mack and Ellen Pao

    Are you a CEO struggling to protect your brand's values in today's political climate? In this essential episode of the Imagine Belonging Podcast, host Rhodes Perry interviews MMG Earth CEO, Mckenzie Mack, and former Reddit CEO, Ellen Pao, about their groundbreaking report, “DEI Now: Leading with Integrity and Inclusion.” Discover why setting clear "red lines,” or boundaries rooted in your values, is a strategic necessity, not just an ethical choice. Learn how to avoid the "wrong side of history" by applying lessons from the past, and learn how to apply them to mitigate risk while preserving your brand’s reputation. This episode shows leaders they are not powerless, offering insights on the critical role of customers, employees, and shareholders in upholding integrity and building trust.   Key Takeaways & Timestamps: [4:50] The three groups of companies navigating the political difficulty. [6:45] Defining "Red Lines": Boundaries leaders refuse to compromise on.  [9:15] Aligning business actions with company values (e.g., avoiding conflicting contracts).  [11:15] Historical lessons: Avoiding the "wrong side of history" (The "frog in the hot water pot" analogy).  [18:30] The role of employees: How to advocate for values without taking on too much labor.  [22:15] The role of shareholders: How public votes are forcing companies to define their commitment.   Grow the Belonging Movement! 📖Read the report, DEI Now, here: https://projectinclude.org/assets/pdf/Project-Include-DEI-Now.pdf 🎧Listen to our DEI New Era podcast minisode here: https://www.rhodesperry.com/newera  📝Sign up for the Belonging Movement Newsletter: http://www.rhodesperry.com/subscribe  📚Get a copy of Imagine Belonging: http://www.rhodesonamazon.com/    🏆Book a 1:1 coaching session with Rhodes: https://tinyurl.com/5n6f47pz

    41 min
  2. Are You Using the Right Language to Talk About DEI?

    12 SEPT.

    Are You Using the Right Language to Talk About DEI?

    Are you struggling with how to talk about your organization's DEI commitments in today’s volatile climate? In this episode of the "Navigating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion's New Reality" mini-series, host Rhodes Perry offers message-tested communication strategies to fortify the heart of your work. Discover how to take a "Goldilocks approach," balancing what you say to different audiences to avoid legal risks while protecting your brand's reputation. Learn why the full phrase "diversity, equity, and inclusion" is more powerful than the acronym "DEI" and how to frame your initiatives around universal values like fairness, respect, and belonging. This episode gives you the practical tools to navigate challenging conversations, counter divisive narratives, and ensure your message resonates with everyone.     Key Takeaways & Timestamps [2:00] The "Goldilocks approach" to DEI messaging. [4:30] Organizational development best practices for communications. [7:00] Winning messages that resonate across audiences. [10:15] The power of using full words over the "DEI" acronym. [12:00] Using "targeted universalism" to fortify your work. [14:30] Practices to avoid when communicating about DEI.     Grow the Belonging Movement! 📝Sign up for the Belonging Movement Newsletter: http://www.rhodesperry.com/subscribe 📚Get a copy of Imagine Belonging: http://www.rhodesonamazon.com/  🏆Book a 1:1 coaching session with Rhodes: https://tinyurl.com/5n6f47pz

    18 min
  3. How Do You Support Protected Employee Groups In This Climate?

    12 SEPT.

    How Do You Support Protected Employee Groups In This Climate?

    In this special bonus episode of the "Navigating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion's New Reality" mini-series, we reflect on the material consequences of inflammatory rhetoric and dangerous policies that impact protected employee groups. Host Rhodes Perry identifies the groups disproportionately impacted and outlines the strategy behind Project 2025, which aims to unravel decades of civil rights gains. This episode offers a critical examination of how threats to civil rights enforcement, mass deportations, and healthcare restrictions can impact your workforce and business outcomes. You'll learn essential best practices for conducting impact assessments and delivering targeted support to help your organization gain a competitive edge by protecting and retaining the next generation of talent. Don’t miss this crucial conversation about how to support employees, acknowledge their unique needs, and build a culture of belonging for all. Key Takeaways & Timestamps [2:00] Identifying employee groups disproportionately impacted by anti-DEI attacks. [4:30] A look at Project 2025 and its material consequences. [7:00] Best practices for conducting impact assessments and delivering employee support. [10:15] Why investing in trauma-informed leadership is crucial. [13:00] Practices to avoid, including adopting a universal approach and overlooking intersectionality     Grow the Belonging Movement! 📝Sign up for the Belonging Movement Newsletter: http://www.rhodesperry.com/subscribe 📚Get a copy of Imagine Belonging: http://www.rhodesonamazon.com/  🏆Book a 1:1 coaching session with Rhodes: https://tinyurl.com/5n6f47pz

    16 min
  4. Are You Ready to Be the Inclusive Leader Our World Needs?

    12 SEPT.

    Are You Ready to Be the Inclusive Leader Our World Needs?

    In the face of growing opposition, what proactive actions can leaders take to fortify their diversity, equity, and inclusion commitments? This final episode of the mini-series "Navigating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion's New Reality" is your guide to moving from a defensive stance to one of proactive leadership. Host Rhodes Perry shares essential strategies for building a powerful "champions coalition" beyond traditional teams, and a roadmap for reimagining your DEI framework to ensure success for everyone. You'll learn to clarify outcomes, design scaled behavior change, and embrace "leveling strategies" that de-bias workplace systems. Discover how to avoid common pitfalls like performative activities and working in a silo. Listen now to learn how to lead with clarity and courage, mobilizing your organization to build a true culture of belonging.     Key Takeaways & Timestamps [2:00] The importance of moving from a defensive to a proactive stance. [4:30] Building a champions coalition and reimagining your DEI framework. [7:00] How to clarify outcomes with the "for the sake of what?" question. [9:15] Embracing leveling strategies and scaled behavioral change. [12:00] Why mobilizing the field and coaching people leaders is crucial. [15:00] Key practices to avoid: performative activities, working in a silo, and more.     Grow the Belonging Movement! 📝Sign up for the Belonging Movement Newsletter: http://www.rhodesperry.com/subscribe 📚Get a copy of Imagine Belonging: http://www.rhodesonamazon.com/  🏆Book a 1:1 coaching session with Rhodes: https://tinyurl.com/5n6f47pz

    15 min
  5. How Are You Addressing Collective Trauma in Your Workforce?

    12 SEPT.

    How Are You Addressing Collective Trauma in Your Workforce?

    In this episode of the Navigating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion's New Reality mini-series, we're talking about something every leader needs to be aware of: the profound impact of collective trauma and grief on your workforce. Host Rhodes Perry shares how the current climate amplifies fear and anxiety, disrupting the very fabric of trust and psychological safety in the workplace. This episode provides actionable, trauma-informed strategies to support your employees. You'll learn how to: Provide psychological safety first aid. Acknowledge and validate employees' grief. Model collective care by giving support and requesting it. By implementing these best practices, you can help your team cope with the ongoing challenges and build an enduring culture of creativity, connection, and belonging. Don't ignore the hidden impacts on your workforce—listen now to learn how to lead with empathy and clarity.     Key Takeaways & Timestamps [2:00] Defining collective trauma and its impact on the workforce. [4:30] Best practices for bolstering psychological safety. [7:00] How to practice collective care and cope with trauma. [9:45] Best practices for acknowledging and validating employee grief. [12:15] Practices to avoid when addressing collective trauma.’     Grow the Belonging Movement! 📝Sign up for the Belonging Movement Newsletter: http://www.rhodesperry.com/subscribe 📚Get a copy of Imagine Belonging: http://www.rhodesonamazon.com/  🏆Book a 1:1 coaching session with Rhodes: https://tinyurl.com/5n6f47pz

    13 min
  6. Is Your Belonging Strategy a Legal Liability or Asset?

    12 SEPT.

    Is Your Belonging Strategy a Legal Liability or Asset?

    Are you confident your organization’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are legally sound? In this episode of the Imagine Belonging Podcast mini-series, "Navigating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion's New Reality," we explore the shifting legal landscape and what it means for your workplace. Host Rhodes Perry provides a clear-eyed analysis of the legal attacks on workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, including recent court rulings, executive actions, and congressional proposals. This episode gives you the essential legal context to fortify your diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Rhodes will demystify recent judicial decisions like the U.S. Supreme Court’s Students for Fair Admissions ruling and explain the three-pronged legal test (aka, "the three p's") to determine if your programming is at risk. You'll learn best practices for conducting legal audits and how to build a strategic advisory team to protect your organization. Tune in to discover how to mitigate legal and reputational risks while strengthening your commitment to advancing your organization's belonging strategy. Key Takeaways & Timestamps [2:15] Overview of the legal landscape impacting DEI [4:00] Analysis of the SFFA and Muldrow v. City of St. Louis Supreme Court decisions [6:30] Impact of Executive and Congressional actions [9:00] Best practices for fortifying your DEI work [11:00] The "three p's" legal test for discrimination claims [14:20] Practices to avoid to mitigate risk     Grow the Belonging Movement!   📝Sign up for the Belonging Movement Newsletter: http://www.rhodesperry.com/subscribe 📚Get a copy of Imagine Belonging: http://www.rhodesonamazon.com/  🏆Book a 1:1 coaching session with Rhodes: https://tinyurl.com/5n6f47pz

    20 min
  7. What to do When Your Profession is Under Attack?

    12 SEPT.

    What to do When Your Profession is Under Attack?

    In a climate where diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) professionals are facing unprecedented challenges, how can leaders continue to build spaces of belonging? This exclusive mini-series, Navigating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’s New Reality, inspired by a toolkit originally for Fortune 100 leaders, is your roadmap! Host and creator of the Imagine Belonging Podcast, Rhodes Perry, a nationally recognized belonging culture thought leader, offers the essential guidance you need to navigate the shifting landscape of legal challenges, evolving rhetoric, and evolving workforce strategies. This introductory episode sets the stage, exploring the historical roots of diversity, equity, and inclusion and why its foundational values are more critical than ever. We'll dive into the laws that shaped this field, from the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the Respect for Marriage Act, and reveal how this work helps everyone—immigrants, people of color, women, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, Veterans, and others—get a fair shot. You'll gain practical strategies to: Center the business relevance of your culture building work Stay informed on key legal and policy shifts in this dynamic landscape Monitor public discourse without making uninformed statements Avoid the temptation of working in isolation This mini-series will equip you with the courage, courage, and commitment to become the leader you’ve been waiting for - the kind of leader our world deserves, especially now.     Links & Resources:   📝Sign up for the Belonging Movement Newsletter: http://www.rhodesperry.com/subscribe 📚Get a copy of Imagine Belonging: http://www.rhodesonamazon.com/  🏆Book a 1:1 coaching session with Rhodes: https://tinyurl.com/5n6f47pz Thanks for growing the #BelongingMovement!

    16 min
  8. EXCLUSIVE: Pride in Exile featuring Former EEOC Commissioner, Chai Feldblum and New York District EEOC Administrative Judge, Karen Ortiz

    18 JUIL.

    EXCLUSIVE: Pride in Exile featuring Former EEOC Commissioner, Chai Feldblum and New York District EEOC Administrative Judge, Karen Ortiz

    Congress established the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Its primary purpose is to prevent and address unfair treatment in the workplace, ensuring that employers don't discriminate against individuals based on race, gender, religion, or age in hiring, firing, or promotions.   Essentially, the EEOC attempts to create a level playing field in the job market by investigating complaints and enforcing anti-discrimination laws. Yet today’s EEOC, led by acting chair Andrea Lucas, is rapidly changing, especially as it enforces—or rather fails to enforce—protections for LGBTQ+ employees. Pride in Exile, a volunteer organization, was created to seek actionable ways we can resist the weaponization of the EEOC as it threatens the hard-earned rights and protections of LGBTQ+ employees.   In this exclusive interview, I am honored to host two absolute titans in the fight for LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion: Chai Feldblum, a renowned legal scholar, activist, and former Commissioner at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) under President Barack Obama, and Judge Karen Ortiz, an administrative law judge at the EEOC’s New York District’s Office who has bravely challenged the current EEOC’s leadership over policies affecting LGBTQ+ cases.   Together, we explore:   Our Guests’ Career Journeys. The guests' journeys to EEOC leadership and the significant advancements in LGBTQ+ workplace protections made over the past two decades.   Threats to LGBTQ+ Workplace Protections. An in-depth look at current threats to LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion and concrete strategies to counter them, including the vital role of the all-volunteer organization, Pride in Exile.   Vision for a Belonging Society. A forward-looking discussion on envisioning and building a future of work where belonging is truly inclusive for all, especially the most vulnerable within our LGBTQ+ communities.   Our conversation is designed to support people like you—visionary leaders and those on their way to joining us. Want to gain the skills necessary to apply this learning to your work?   Join the Belonging Movement today! After you join, you'll receive exclusive access to complimentary workshops, group coaching sessions, and 1:1 somatic coaching offers designed to help you lead with your values and build groups that center team safety, trust, and belonging.   Don't just imagine belonging – build it. Join the Belonging Movement here: https://www.rhodesperry.com/subscribe.   Support Pride in Exile by becoming a member: https://www.prideinexile.org/

    57 min
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If you have ever felt disconnected, excluded, or that you just didn’t matter at work, then this podcast is for you. Your host, Rhodes Perry, 2x bestselling author of Imagine Belonging and Belonging at Work, introduces you to inclusive leaders, visionaries, and change-makers. This show was created for people like you – people ready to imagine and build belonging at work. In this podcast, we dare to imagine workplace cultures that have yet to exist…until now. It recognizes that leading this kind of transformative work can be both thrilling and intimidating. You’ll hear inspiring stories from inclusive leaders who have boldly imagined a new way to lead, build teams, and structure the future of work. You’ll learn how they moved beyond their limiting beliefs, giving themselves permission to envision and then build an enduring culture of belonging at work. This kind of proven visioning work results in powerful individual, interpersonal, and organizational transformation. During your daily commute, workout, or leisure time, allow Rhodes Perry to share actionable advice, and introduce you to some of today’s most inspiring DEI thought leaders, all while modeling ways to lead with vulnerability as they bring their full selves to these conversations. Each episode explores the journey of the successful inclusive leader who reflects on the ups and downs of building belonging at work, all to inspire you to take action, and unapologetically bring as much of your authentic self to work, as you desire.

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  • Création
    Rhodes Perry, Bestselling Author & Belonging Strategist
  • Années d’activité
    2022 - 2025
  • Épisodes
    77
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