The Envision RISE Podcast opens 2022 with Shari Foos, MA, MFT; MS, NM, Founder of The Narrative Method, an organization creating programs and products that use stories to bring together diverse individuals. Shari shares with host Staci Hegarty her dream of a “contagion of connection” where people understand the power of storytelling and empathy. Listen as Shari Answers: How the Narrative Method applies to bringing your whole self to workDeconstructing the ‘cult of culture’ to choose self-awareness and empowerment over external judgement through mediaWhat can leaders do to help employees feel present and a sense of belongingHow to find meaning in your relationships with work and your peersHow to approach someone with “A.W.E.” awareness, wonder, and empathy, to offer respect and truly understand who they areLearn more about The Narrative Method and connect with Shari at https://www.thenarrativemethod.org/, or their social platforms:Twitter: @NarrativeMethodLinkedIn: The Narrative MethodFacebook: @thenarrativemethodIG: @thenarrativemethodVisit Envision RISE to learn how our evolutionary platform helps companies create a powerful integration and understanding of the relationship between the organization and the actual workforce. Envision RISE empowers your people to drive change and innovation through the methods of Organizational Change Management (OCM), Human Resource Management (HRM), and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I).

This week Staci Hegarty talks about the importance of understanding personal values to cultivate a better culture with J. Dwayne Garnett, Love Advocate, Founder/CEO of Love Is A Parable, an education and training nonprofit providing value-based education, sales strategies and culture enhancement to organizations. J. Dwayne Garnett shares how his 19 years in higher education and curriculum development supported the customization for his clients.Listen as Staci and J. Dwayne Garnett chat: The way values help to shape and identify how people see themselves and others and impact their decisionsHow our personal and professional lives rely on one another and following through the emotions that arise to maintain the balance The concept of biases as ‘values that received a dirty name’ and sifting through the discomfortTraining organizations going beyond visible diversity for true inclusionThe complexity of love, kindness, and uncomfortable conversations and how they contribute to creating the most diverse and authentic organizations Learn more about J. Dwayne Garnett and Love Is A Parable on their website or through social media: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Tune into their podcast Brother empowerMENt on Spotify. Connect with us to learn more about how our RISE platform helps companies make a commitment to promote diversity, inclusion, equity and create an environment where your people are empowered to drive change and innovation: https://bit.ly/EnvisionRISE.

This week Staci Hegarty talks with Jeff Andrews, President of Business of Child Care, an organization supporting and connecting child care business owners to resources to provide fundamental skills for creating safe and equitable spaces.  Listen as Staci and Jeff discuss: How the pandemic caused many child care locations to close, disproportionately affecting women in the workforce and families in underserved communities and highlighting the lack of accessThe lack of equitable access to resources for building successful and safe child care businesses to underrepresented communities and its lasting impact on children and familiesMaking business licensing documentation more accessible through translation of materialsHow providing business owners with proper skills to start businesses, whether or not in child care, supports the entire communityContact and connect with Jeff and learn more visit www.businessofchildcare.com. To connect with us to learn more about how our RISE platform helps companies make a commitment to promote diversity, inclusion, equity and create an environment where your people are empowered to drive change and innovation: https://bit.ly/EnvisionRISE.

This week Staci Hegarty catches up with Lushanda Byrd, longtime Higher Education professional and Founder of Leaving Members Joyful, a consulting firm supporting and educating youth on integrating themselves into the world and transforming their futures.Listen as Staci and Lushanda discuss:Growing a future through trades, community college programs, and entry level growth in a companyHow to help students create a vision for themselves by expanding on their skill sets from extra curricular activities, community service, AP courses and their jobsTeaching students how to build resumes and understand how soft skills develop into specific skills such critical thinking, communication, and management skillsHow parents can get connected with resources to help guide their childrenContact and connect with Lushanda through @lushanda1 on IG, @LushandaJ on Twitter, and Lushanda Byrd on LinkedIn.To connect with us to learn more about how our RISE platform helps companies make a commitment to promote diversity, inclusion, equity and create an environment where your people are empowered to drive change and innovation: https://bit.ly/EnvisionRISE.

This week Staci Hegarty speaks with University of Colorado Denver Professor Geeta Verma, founder of LivedX. Staci and Professor Verma discuss why she founded LivedX, an online portal that translates peoples’ everyday life experiences into credentials for greater success in educational and workplace opportunities. Listen as Staci and Professor Verma discuss:How recognizing the value of essential skills developed during lived experience can address structural inequities and level the playing field for minority students How LivedX helps students document their lived experience to create a narrative from which embedded skills can be identified, validated, and quantified to bolster students in the admissions and hiring processThe future ability of LivedX to provide important data to schools and universities that will allow them to address structural inequities in education curriculumLearn more about LivedX at https://livedx.com/.To connect with us to learn more about how our RISE platform helps companies make a commitment to promote diversity, inclusion, equity and create an environment where your people are empowered to drive change and innovation: https://bit.ly/EnvisionRISE.

Join the #EnvisionRISE podcast this week as we speak with Michael Johnson, Chief Strategy Officer of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Michael shares the evolution of ASME, beginning in 1880, into a worldwide 100K+ membership of professionals and students who develop standards with rapidly changing markets and technology and how that rapid change must also be addressed from the inside out, beginning with their people.Join us as they discuss:The focus on DE&I for the future of ASME and the engineering professionHow ASME as an international group is taking on new challenges and prioritizing diversity of thought throughout the organizationChanging the perception of DE&I and understanding that inclusion means everyone to create lifelong ASME employees and bring new talentMichael's personal experiences as he urges others to bring awareness and sensitivity to every meeting they attend.Learn more about ASME at www.asme.org.To connect with us to learn more about how our RISE platform helps companies make a commitment to promote diversity, inclusion, equity and create an environment where your people are empowered to drive change and innovation: https://bit.ly/EnvisionRISE.

In this week’s episode, Envision RISE’s Staci Hegarty and Michael Benning, IpX Vice President of Organizational Change Management (OCM) illustrate how Envision RISE was born from IpX’s 30+ years of experience as a leading enterprise transformation company whose passion for people of the people, processes, and tools framework grew into its own practice. Michael and Staci describe:How weak OCM creates disconnect and disengagement between leadership and staff and what successful OCM looks likeHow Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) are less representation and more the celebration of backgrounds, ideas, and thoughts to drive problem-solving and innovation by making the workforce feel valued, heard, and respectedHow concepts and approaches within IpX translate to Envision RISE The financial, cultural, and resource impact of improving DE&I in an organization To connect with us to learn more about how our RISE platform helps companies make a commitment to promote diversity, inclusion, equity and create an environment where your people are empowered to drive change and innovation: https://bit.ly/EnvisionRISE.

This week we chat with 15-year educator, Jay Wamsted. Jay shares how his initiation into teaching within a predominantly Black school and community started his journey into developing self, facing his own biases, and becoming a more engaging teacher by being open to discussing race and culture in the classroom.Jay schools us to share: How issues of race matter in all school subjectsThat math isn’t a ‘universal language’ when it isn’t taught in your native languageHow his experience uncovered his own bias and assumptions of the learning experience for students in ELL (English Language Learners)How unlearning and disassembling stereotypes remind teachers that each students deserves personal attentionWhat assignments he would share with white teachers to create a more inclusive and equitable classroom and investigating their own historyWhat it looks like to talk about race at home To connect with us to learn more about how our RISE platform helps companies make a commitment to promote diversity, inclusion, equity and create an environment where your people are empowered to drive change and innovation: https://bit.ly/EnvisionRISE.

In this episode, Envision RISE’s Staci Hegarty speaks with Allison Grealis, President, Women in Manufacturing Association (WiM) about WiM’s founding and its 10+ year mission of supporting, promoting, and inspiring women in manufacturing careers, as well as the companies that employ them. Staci and Allison discuss:The slow nature of culture change and the importance of having allies in your DE&I journey to share resources and best practices for benchmarkingRecognizing that DE&I is a choice that companies make and how WiM supports inclusive corporate environmentsAdvice for companies who recognize DE&I is paramount to their success and are struggling to fill manufacturing rolesThe future of women in manufacturing roles and WiM’s efforts to bring awareness of manufacturing careers to the K-12 populationLearn more about membership and the DE&I task force through the WiM website including their new Hear Her Story podcast.To connect with us to learn more about how our RISE platform helps companies make a commitment to promote diversity, inclusion, equity and create an environment where your people are empowered to drive change and innovation: https://bit.ly/EnvisionRISE.

In this episode, Envision RISE’s Global Director of Equity & Inclusion, Staci Hegarty speaks with Shirin Nikaein, Co-Founder and CEO of Upful.ai about how a negative experience with biased employer feedback led her to create a product that helps companies produce more meaningful and objective employee performance reviews. Staci and Shirin talk about how Upful uses behavioral science research to address common issues with employee reviews as well as what it’s like to be in a start-up, and advice for those thinking of starting their own companies. Hear Staci and Shirin discuss:How Upful detects vague, subjective, speculative, or potentially biased language and provides real-time coaching to remind managers of best practices when writing an employee performance evaluationThe importance of reducing different types of cognitive biases to make evaluation feedback more objective and representative of an employee’s performanceThe punishment gap and the expectation for women to be 100% likable, 100% of the time  The significance of performance ratings and the impact on an employee’s career trajectory and earning potentialWhy representation in upper management matters for improving employee retention and creating products and services that serve more people equallyTo learn how Upful uses behavioral science to coach people as they write employee performance feedback visit: https://get.upful.ai/To connect with us to learn more about how our RISE platform helps companies make a commitment to promote diversity, inclusion, equity and create an environment where your people are empowered to drive change and innovation: https://bit.ly/EnvisionRISE.