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Is it really possible to create a way of working based on love not fear? Yes. It’s not only possible. It’s essential. Learn more from this collection of more than 100 posts to inspire and guide you.

Weaving Our Human Tapestry
Renée Smith Renée Smith

Weaving Our Human Tapestry

Our society's fabric feels threadbare, and our workplaces often exclude certain perspectives and contributions. Organizations that prioritize creating equitable and inclusive cultures perform better, but where do we start? We need to learn to weave together our common human threads and our differences, both the warp and the weft, to create a stunning and inspired tapestry. This weaving requires learning new skills and habits, which can be uncomfortable but necessary for growth. As we move through the discomfort of collective learning, we can come together to create a more inclusive, dynamic, and innovative way of working, expanding who collaborates, how we collaborate, and what we work on. Let's learn to weave together and create something more beautiful together.

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Lift Every Voice and Sing
Wil Johnson Wil Johnson

Lift Every Voice and Sing

Wil Johnson challenges and empowers us to find our authentic voices and lift them up to create change together. Through the narrative of his own life, Wil highlights how we can engage with one another to prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging so that we can further encourage our individual and collective humanity.

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Bring your real, whole self to work
Renée Smith Renée Smith

Bring your real, whole self to work

We may be sensitive to the risks of welcoming real and whole people in all their messy variation and uncertainty, but the greater risk is NOT welcoming real and whole people to work, and losing their important contributions and engagement. We can’t afford that. We’ve got too many problems to solve.

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Can we talk?
Renée Smith Renée Smith

Can we talk?

Arguably one of the most difficult issues we face as a nation is race. Our painful, ugly history continues to manifest as pain and ugliness in the present. And our challenges extend beyond racial equity and inclusion to gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, socio-economic status, ability.

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Learning to weave in Olympia
Renée Smith Renée Smith

Learning to weave in Olympia

My last post described our need to weave together a stronger social fabric that both honors our common humanity and respects and values diversity. At A Human Workplace: Olympia on June 22, we took a first step by exploring and learning about empathy and diversity. Here’s what we did and what happened. But first, what seems most essential.

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Weaving our human tapestry
Renée Smith Renée Smith

Weaving our human tapestry

The fabric of our society feels threadbare. A tattered cloth with gaping holes, it barely drapes us nor does it display its full beauty. We wish it were different but we seem to have lost our ability to weave that tapestry. 

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