Celia Daniels discusses trans visibility and workplace inclusion. One speaker reframes DEI as humanizing the workplace and shares how grief and exclusion shaped his perspective as a cis white man.
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I changed the title, the conversation in most of my DEI conversations to humanizing workplace, not DEI. The reason I did that is because when my friend said, Celia, I lost my wife, I have two children, and I come to the office, I don't have a place to go. My Black friends, my friends who are LGBTQ, they have a group to go to, right? And they can talk about it. They talk about mental health issues. They talk about trans issues. They talk about veteran issues. I don't have anything to do. Right. And they always look at me as the white man, the white man, the cis white man. I have problems too. I'm a human too. Right. And it hit me so hard. And I was thinking, have we got this all wrong? Because have we actually ostracized people in the inclusion