EP34 The profound calling of bridge-building in DEI with Martine Kalaw

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I make a distinction between active allies, and passive allies. We've got a whole lot of great passive allies in organizations that are wanting to do something and thinking ‘But I don't know what to do!’</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Active allyship can be facilitated through manager and management development. Managers all need management development. If you're listening and you don't have a management development program, that is a huge disservice to your managers right there. We know that managers automatically need to upskill themselves to be more effective. What I'm suggesting is DEI just becomes a way to pivot management development. It's not changing it. That's why it's the ABCs!” - Martine Kalaw, CEO and founder of Martine Kalaw Enterprised and author of ‘The ABCs of Diversity’</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And might we add??? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A kindred spirit, for us, in terms of articulation of DEI philosophy.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(I mean, this podcast IS called ABCDEI 😁)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Martine’s firm supports human resources professionals in saving time, reducing burden, and being able to drive return on investment (ROI) when it comes to everything related to DEI in the workplace. They do this via training, consulting, as well as speaking.</span></p> <p><strong>Why Martine didn't name her book ABCs of DEI</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My only reservation was six, seven months ago, I wasn't sure how familiar people were with the term DEI. I think now it's more widespread, but we are like we were right. On the same, you know, wavelength!”</span></p> <p><strong>Martine’s powerful story </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“So my background is I am a I am a stateless and undocumented immigrant survivor. I was born and I'm from Zambia and the Democratic Republic, respectively, and have been in the US since I was four years ol