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Sara Taylor
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Sara Taylor
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Episode 8:
Sara Taylor is the president and founder of deepSEE Consulting. She is a nationally-recognized speaker and consultant specializing in the areas of leadership, diversity, and organizational effectiveness. With over 25-years of experience, Sara balances her real-life anecdotes with research-based theories to deliver for her reader what she delivers for her clients.
What you’ll learn about in this episode:
- Why Sara Taylor and her team at DeepSEE Consulting define diversity as “differences that make a difference”
- How organizations have historically defined diversity using lists of protected-class groups, and why that approach isn’t sufficient anymore
- Why not all of our differences matter in the workplace, and why including everything under the heading of diversity is counterproductive
- Sara shares a story that illustrates how religion can be the difference that makes a difference
- How the tensions between Catholic and Lutheran families caused problems within community interactions when Sara was young
- How four years in the Peace Corps led Sara to the Dominican Republic, where she met her husband and became a member of a diverse family
- Why the primary role of a business leader is to set the members of their team up for success
- Why the skill of cultural competence is a foundational skill that allows us to adapt to changes
- Why the difference that makes a difference can change depending upon the context of the situation you are in
Additional resources:
- Website: www.deepseeconsulting.com