#023 - In honor of May’s Mental Health Awareness month, Kay shares practical advice and tips for fellow D&I practitioners to avoid burnout. She also dives into her own lessons from experiencing burnout early in her career — and how she prioritizes her mental health to continue to serve her clients and colleagues. Finally, Kay discusses why emotional boundaries are critical to our D&I work and how self-care and self-preservation help us show up as better allies and advocates.

IIP024 Advocating for Gender Equity in Tech

We've been talking about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in companies for 50+ years, but the conversation isn’t keeping up with how quickly our world is changing. So isn't it about time we updated the conversation for our multihyphenate, multicultural world? This podcast provides equity-minded leaders practical advice to lead inclusion in the workplace.

Inclusion in Progress is hosted by Kay Fabella. Kay is a Filipina-American living in Spain since 2010. She's also a DEI practitioner, author, speaker, and CEO of Inclusion in Progress, LLC. Having worked with companies like Red Hat, Instagram, Philips, the IMF, and more, she brings a nuanced international perspective to her company's work with distributed teams. Kay believes that everyone — regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, ability, age or background — has a role to play in creating inclusion for all. 

Through Kay's own stories and her interviews with experts, Inclusion in Progress will give you the insights, daily micro-actions, and data-driven strategies you need to create an equitable work culture that brings out the best in each of us. So if you're a company leader who's ready to turn DEI from insight into action — hit that subscribe button to learn how your leadership can create a more inclusive world for us all.

To learn how we can support your organization with cross-cultural DEI solutions, email us at: info@inclusioninprogress.com.

To learn more about the future of work culture, download our 2021 whitepaper at: https://inclusioninprogress.com/learn

**Please note: we are NOT accepting guests for our podcast.**