Announcing a NEW SPEAKER: Welcome to Outspoken, Dr. Tina Opie!
/We are THRILLED to announce another addition to our growing roster at Outspoken: Dr. Tina Opie!
You’ve probably heard the name before: Dr. Tina Opie is an award-winning researcher, consultant, and professor. Her mission? To create more diverse and inclusive spaces through the power of connection. Her expertise in diversity, inclusion and equitable workplaces is highly sought-out by top executives and Fortune 500 companies around the country. Her unique approach offers tangible and practical advice on how to create more equitable spaces that results in more creative, innovative, and productive organizations, large and small. Tina has been featured in countless media outlets, including The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, NPR, Business Insider, The Boston Globe, and more.
We all know that bias and discrimination persist in organizations, in the workplace, and in our own communities. Despite efforts made in the last few decades, gender and racial equity still haven’t been achieved. What’s worse, Black, Indigenous, Asian, and Latina women are being held back more than their white counterparts. Using her trademarked Shared Sisterhood framework, she helps individuals and organizations confront their blind spots when it comes to discrimination and bias. Tina’s frame offers not only true inspiration for meaningful change, but actionable steps leaders can take to better connect with their teams and support all who need to be elevated and celebrated in the workplace (not just women!). Her inclusive approach crosses historical boundaries of racio-ethnicity, socio-economics, age, and gender, driving home the idea that we all can support one another in the spirit of “sisterhood.”
The Harvard Business Review points out Tina’s sisterhood framework “was originally intended to examine the challenges faced by both Black and white women in the United States and offer solutions to connect the two communities, it can be used to strengthen relationships between members of other racio-ethnic groups (and other kinds of identity groups).” They also noted that, in using Tina’s approach, “many of them (participants) were amazed to discover that they could see themselves in one another. Coming together to talk about their differences helped them better understand how to form authentic connections with people outside their own groups.”
In her book based on the same framework (and title), Shared Sisterhood: How to Take Collective Action for Racial and Gender Equity at Work, Tina and co-author, Beth Livingston, provide an encouraging guide to workplace diversity and equity as they make a case that women of different races must come together and push for equity. Balancing a mix of history, research, and real-life examples--including their own experiences, this book encourages everyone to join Shared Sisterhood and advance equity for all.
IN THE MEDIA
Dr. Tina Opie created the Shared Sisterhood methodology to show us how collective action toward equity benefits ALL of us, people from both power-dominant and historically marginalized groups. Dr. Opie shares that anyone can be a Sister, regardless of gender.
Are you leveraging equity & inclusion to drive collaboration in your organization? Dr. Tina Opie discusses how leaders can assess their own inclusion and equity practices while developing a strategy for their businesses.
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