2020 GlobalMindED
The Future of Work is Diverse, Inclusive, Just and Equitable
GlobalMindED closes the equity gap by creating a capable, diverse talent pipeline through connections to role models, mentors, internships for low-income students, returning adults, First Gen to college and inclusive leaders who teach them, work with them and hire them.
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The day after the election, there is no better way to regroup than by honoring one of our inclusive Native American Leaders who is an expert in healing and moving forward. We hope that her wisdom will inspire you as we mend our nation and our world and go forward from a 2020 which by all accounts has been one of the hardest years in recent history. |
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Anita, you are a Latina and Native leader who was First Gen to College in your family and went on to earn a PhD. Now you are a thought leader, speaker, author and train and coach corporate CEOs, leaders and their teams around the world. What is your personal story and can others learn to navigate from your determination?
My name is Dr. Anita Louise Teresa Medina Sanchez. Aztec (Nawat) and Mexican American, I’m the fourth child of six children born to Frances Medina and Philip Sanchez, in an extended family of 120 first cousins. Although I grew up in economic poverty, I’m living my dream, a dream that I began dreaming when I was 3 or 4 years old. In kindergarten, I drew a circle, the earth, filled with lots of stick people of different shapes and colors, and we are all connecting, with our hands on each other’s hearts. There were millions of us. At age four, I did not know that would call for me to be a Doctor of Organization Development, with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, leadership and positive culture change. Nor did I, in my childhood dream, know that it would result in working with business leaders and their teams around the world helping them create more life-giving, innovative workplaces and careers for all people across races, gender, culture, age, orientation, education, and more.
I am internally rewarded every day, as I continue to learn, grow and discover ways to be of service to others. External recognition can be another indicator that you are making a positive difference. Most recently, I was acknowledged by Conscious Company Media as a 2020 World-Changing Woman along with 42 other women. Then, on October 11th, the World Woman Foundation honored me with their World Woman Hour, #ShesMyHero designation. In that, I’m one of 60 women around the world, along with amazing leaders like Jane Goodall and more, in a campaign to inspire one million girls around the world to follow their dreams, ambitions and be leaders of their lives and in their communities. World Woman Hour can be viewed at worldwomanfoundation.com
It is important to share all of this first in my story, to have you believe me when I say with authenticity, love, and truth that we are not our circumstances and that each of us matters in this one world of ours. It is true that part of my life has always been filled with a loving Hispanic and indigenous family, with powerful indigenous wisdom of my elders. And it is important that, as leaders, we tell people the fuller story.
I grew up economically poor. Eight of us lived in three rooms in my early years. My brilliant mother had a 7th grade education, and my father, a Korean War veteran, had a high school degree and shoveled coal in a steel mill, along with several side jobs, to support our family. I also kept a dark secret, that from age 4 to 13, I was abused. These are more than enough challenges for any young person.
Then, when I was 13, my father died in a race-related murder. After work each day, he would stop at the neighborhood bar around the corner for a beer. Unbeknownst to my father, he was sitting where, earlier that day, a white man and a black man had an argument. The white man returned, saw my dark-skinned father’s profile and mistook him for the black man he had argued with earlier that day. The white man fired three bullets to my father’s head, killing him.
These experiences required a lot of healing, forgiveness, and support. After my father’s death, my mother and all of us were determined to stay together, so anyone of my brothers and sisters who looked old enough went to work while finishing school to help the family. At 14, I got my first job, working at Macy’s department store, and soon graduated from high school at 16. It was hard to leave my Mom, brothers and sisters to pursue college, but my dream compelled me to. My first year of college was in an all-girls college outside Kansas City, Missouri. Then, with scholarship and work study, I came to the University of Colorado, Boulder where I completed my bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees.
There were many times that I wanted to quit school to return home to help with the economic and other challenges faced by my mother and siblings. However, there were amazing professors and indigenous elders who provided me with wise guidance. They would listen to me as I cried for those, I loved who were suffering. They would tell me to give my love, emotional and spiritual support, saying however, I would have even greater impact on my family by finishing my education. The wisdom from these adults was true. Over the decades, I have been able to help others with some huge challenges, emulating, in some ways, those who guided me.
Today, I continue to live in the foothills outside of Boulder with my husband and younger son, and work around the world (virtually, for now). I love going home to Kansas City and hearing second and third cousins that I didn’t know telling me that I am their inspiration to continue their education and ensure their dreams come true. With these especially turbulent times it is important that each of us fulfill the call from our hearts.
You gave a keynote at GlobalMindED in 2018, sharing wisdom from your international best-seller, The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times, Simon & Schuster. Tell us about the insights in this book and how it can direct us in this time of multiple pandemics?
I’m delighted to share that, since my keynote at your powerful annual Conference, The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times has won the 2019 International Latino Book Award (ILBA) in 3 categories of non-fiction books: Best Self-Help, Most Inspirational, and Best in Spiritual. The Eagle Hoop prophecy and the four sacred gifts are alive and continue to provide support to multitudes of hearts and minds around the world.
In 1994, the Eagle Hoop Prophecy came in a vision to the Mohican elder and founder of White Bison, Don Coyhis, who put out a call, resulting in twenty-seven Indigenous elders, from around the world, coming together in ceremony. They came from the Four Directions: from the Americas, from Asia, from Europe, and from Africa. The Eagle Hoop was created with 100 eagle feathers hanging from a hoop of made out of a tree branch. As Don Coyhis said, “The Hoop is an evolving symbol for humanity, as its wisdom and presence remind us of how to be and how to do.” The 27 elders placed four gifts inside the Hoop to help all human beings to remember how to be in life-giving relationship to ourselves, other people, the earth and Spirit. The four sacred gifts are:
The Gift of the Power to Forgive the Unforgivable
The Gift of the Power of Unity
The Gift of the Power of Healing
The Gift of the Power of Hope in action.
Use these gifts, and you will remember how to be a whole human being who understands that we are part of One Hoop of Life. In this time of multiple pandemics in health, economy, race relations, education, business and government, the invitation is to embrace these gifts daily so that you become a life-giving force in our one world with All of Our Relations, people and nature. You can learn more about the book, the gifts, and download a free song based on indigenous wisdom at www.FourSacredGifts.com
What is your favorite part of your Native culture, your Hispanic heritage and the meaningful confluence of these two powerful traditions?
I have so many favorite parts within the richness of Indigenous and Hispanic cultures. If I have to pick one, today, I will say, for Indigenous culture, it is the Seven Generation principle taught by many Native Americans. It says that, in every decision, be it personal, environmental, business or governmental, we must consider not only how this decision will affect us today, being the 4th generation, but also the impact on our descendants 3 generations into the future, just as our ancestors, three generations before us, considered how their acts could affect us.
If our thoughts and actions will not be of benefit to the future generations, then we must pause and consider a different action. Long before conscious business leaders shifted to stakeholder value rather than destructive shareholder value only, before environmentalists got people thinking about the ecological impact of our actions on our earth, the Seventh Generation principle in indigenous life has related to the whole of our story of being human beings. Since everything is connected, you cannot separate out the ecological, social, economic, educational without thinking about how it affects other parts of our interconnected world and lives with All Our Relations, people, all beings – nature and the earth.
For Hispanic culture, I have to say, especially at this time, that I am grateful for the power of love in “La Familia”, the family. Although I have 120 first cousins and many more relatives, aunts, uncles, the concept of the family is not just limited to the biological family. Our family includes friends, co-workers, employers, along with our relationship to the earth that provides us sustenance every day, in every moment.
The intersectionality of my indigenous and Hispanic heritages creates some complexity and it also provides such a rich well of joy in my life.
What do Inclusive leaders need to know and do right now, whether they lead Black Lives Matter, or Asian Leaders, LBGTQ, those from your own heritage or are from homogenous backgrounds seeking to be diverse, just and equitable?
Well, I may be a thought leader in diversity, equity and inclusion, but I know there is no one way “to be” and “to do” as an inclusive leader. However, I do find there are some things that are essential for leaders in this VUCA (volatile, uncertain, chaotic, ambiguous) world we live in. The first thing I share with executives is to begin at the beginning. #YouCantGoogleWisdom –“You can’t google wisdom” - Your internal development and level of consciousness will be reflected in how you are and what you do in the external part of your world of family, business, and community.
First, what is your worldview? It is always a good time to take a moment to look at your underlying assumptions before you take actions or make decisions, so that you do not fall into the single option fallacy. Is your worldview one of separateness - that everyone and everything is separate, or is your worldview that you and all of life are interconnected? How does that worldview impact how you lead your life and how you connect or not connect with others at home, business, and community from the local to the world level? This question, alone, can lead us toward truly becoming conscious of the impact of our worldview on our decision-making, who we include, what we measure, undoing unconscious bias, vision of a thriving future for all, and on and on.
Second, hope is a choice. It is a powerful energy source that compels us to be in positive action. Especially at this time of so many challenges, use the four gifts aforementioned and think of HOPE as an acronym that can provide you guidance to be an effective, conscious, inclusive leader.
Hearts-Open + Possibility + Engagement
Hearts Open: Listen to your heart. It will share your deep wisdom, while allowing you to listen deeply to others within and across the races. We cannot trust listening only to our minds at this time, that can block us from allowing in new or unfamiliar information. With heart open, we can connect to each other, creating understanding and acknowledgement of each other’s humanity, not just our skills and roles within an organization.
Possibility: Leadership requires being present to what is; the ability to not despair in the process; and holding the vision, the possibility, that we can create something new, something even better. With your heart open, you can feed a positive, prosperity-mindset that leads to successful outcomes. Leaders are being asked to adapt and to create anew in their businesses, small and large. No successful person, no successful organization or business, no successful movement exists without experiencing both pain and joy, as they reach for positive possibilities of what could be. Pain pushes until vision pulls us individually and collectively forward. While your experience, education, skills and tools definitely matter, your possibility mindset can make all the difference. It is a responsibility and joy as a leader to hold the space and grace for hope in action. Possibility is part of co-creating and innovating. The rewards are great for generating a desirable, life giving future.
Engagement: As a Hopi indigenous prophecy foretold, the time of the lone wolf is over. To build our businesses and communities anew requires that we get out of our separate silos and come together to understand and appreciate the beauty, the challenges, the growth and learning that can come from engaging each other in conversations, sharing our stories and our dreams, listening with the softest part of our ears and expanding hearts to each other at all levels of our society and businesses. To engage as a leader requires humility, understanding that one person doesn’t hold all the genius. It is through face-to-face (including virtual) engagement and authentic connection and care for one another that we will co-create a life-giving, successful path forward. It is powerful what solutions we can create as we continuously, authentically engage people who are similar to and different from ourselves. HOPE can be your path to deeper connection, community, and co-creation of solutions to our most pressing problems.
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Monday, November 9, 2:00 MT/4:00 ET |
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Click to view the most recent webinars: |
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Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: African American College Presidents Share Realities Part II: Dr. Ryan Ross; Assoc. V. Chancellor Student Affairs, Equity, & Inclusion, Colorado Community College System moderates. Panelists include Dr. Javaune Adams-Gaston President, Norfolk State University, Dr. E. LaBrent Chrite President, Bethune-Cookman University, Dr. Annette Parker President, South Central College, Minnesota State, and Dr. Michael Torrence President, Motlow State College
Courageous Conversations: Catalyzing Change in Health: Dr. Monique Butler; Chief Medical Officer, Swedish Medical Center, Samuel Yamoah, Jr.; Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company, Dr. Georges Benjamin; Executive Director, American Public Health Association, Dr. J. Nadine Gracia; Exec. Vice President & COO, Trust for America’s Health, Dr. Karen McNeil-Miller; CEO, Colorado Health Foundation, Dr. Pierre Theodore; VP Global External Innovation, Johnson & Johnson, and Dr. Elena Rios; President & CEO, National Hispanic Medical Association.
Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: Diverse College Presidents Talk About First 6 Weeks of School: Dr. Ryan Ross; Assoc. V. Chancellor Student Affairs, Equity, & Inclusion, Colorado Community College System moderates. Panelists include Dr. Javaune Adams-Gaston President, Norfolk State University, Dr. E. LaBrent Chrite President, Bethune-Cookman University, Dr. Annette Parker President, South Central College, Minnesota State, Dr. Miles Davis President, Linfield University, and Dr. Michael Torrence President, Motlow State College
Hispanic Language Heritage Language Assets for Career Preparedness: Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) and GlobalMindED, moderated by Lorena Orozco McElwain; OELA, Panelists include: Carol Carter; GlobalMindED, Felícita Solá-Carter; Excellence in Government Program, Oscar Fraire; University of Colorado Denver student, Patty Lopez; Intel Corporation, and Adrian Rosado; Cultural Clarity Experience.
Hispanic Language Heritage: Retention of Heritage Culture and Language(s) US Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) and GlobalMindED, and panelists celegrate National Hispanic Heritage Month. Lorena Orozco and Supreet Anand of OELA, Cristina Alfaro; San Diego State University, Luis Benitez; VF Corporation, Clotilde Dedecker; Circle of Women, Joe Garcia; Ohkay OwinghTribe, and Dr.Joel Comez; Center for Applied Logistics
Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: A Conversation on Race, Isms, Justice, Moving Forward and the Role White People Need to Play: Ryan Ross; Associate Vice Chancellor: Student Affairs, Equity, and Inclusion, Colorado Community College System leads the conversation with Clifton Taulbert; President and CEO, Freemount Corporation and Roots Java Coffee, Javon Brame; Dean of Students, Arapahoe Community College, Chelsea Williams; Founder & CEO, College Code LLC, and Representative Leslie Herod; Legislator, Colorado General Assembly
Equity in Engineering Programs: Priming the STEM Pipeline During and After COVID-19: Dr. Dora Renaud, Sr. Director of Academic Programs & Professional Development, SHPE: Leading Hispanics in STEM, Melanie Suarez, Student, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Mechanical Engineering, Nicolas Valencia Diaz, Student, Florida International University, Biomedical Engineering, Sophia Plata, PhD Student, University of Southern California, Environmental Engineering
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To view the recent Rural sessions, please see our YouTube channel:
Native American Business Opportunities, Tribal Economic Development and Post-secondary Education/Workforce Participation: J.C. Whorton, Jr.; Consultant, Lecturer, Author and Adjunct Faculty, University of Colorado Boulder, Don Kelin; President, Fox Professional Services, Rocky Mountain Indian Chamber of Commerce, Matt Rantanen; Director of Technology, Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association, Tribal Digital Village Network Initiative, and Melvin Monette; CEO, Indigenous Education, Inc.
Fortifying Native Students, Faculty and Communities During and After COVID-19: Ron Lessard (Mohawk); Acting Exec. Director, White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education leads panel including Diana Cournoyer; Oglala Sioux Tribe, Executive Director, National Indian Education Association, Michael Chamberlain; Special Assistant for Rural Outreach, US Department of Education, Carrie L. Billy; President & CEO, American Indian Higher Education Consortium, and features a performance by Ava Rose Johnson; Student and Musician, Native American Music Awards Winner
Rural Innovations in Education During COVID-19: Anne Trujillo; Anchor 7News, Denver moderates the panel which includes Tina Goar; Executive Director, San Luis Valley BOCES, Dr. Robert Mitchell; Asst. Professor of Leadership, Research, and Foundations, UCCS, Luis Murillo; Principal, Skoglund Middle School, and Samantha Yocam; Superintendent and Principal, Kim School District
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THE FLYOVER NATION
Energy's Role in a Troubled Heartland
By J.C. Whorton
A unique and timely discussion of the challenging issues facing the country’s troubled Heartland.
Since the beginning of westward expansion into the Heartland’s vast regions, natural resource development has played a historic role in shaping its communities. Today, domestic oil and gas development offers one of the strongest prospects for the Heartland’s present and future prosperity as well as the nation’s re-emergence as a dominant player in the global energy economy.
The U.S. is now the world’s largest producer of crude oil and natural gas, two circumstances that are universally disrupting international geopolitical order. The earth has a finite supply of natural resources and a rapidly growing and over consuming population.
As America positions itself for a very uncertain and constantly evolving global marketplace, will the Heartland become America’s “great connector” or “great divide”?
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J.C. Whorton is a senior level energy and financial professional with over forty years of essential experience. Having a ranching and Native American heritage, Mr. Whorton is a strong advocate for rural education and economic development initiatives.
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Links to read about Inclusive Leaders, many of whom are African American and people of color:
Curated sessions from GlobalMindED 2020 YouTube channel:
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From the Center for Positive Organizations:
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From the World Academy of Art & Science and UN; Geneva Global Leadership in the 21st Century econference:
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Listen here for an interview with Pam Newkirk, GlobalMindED speaker and author of Diversity Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion- Dollar Business.
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Responding to Crisis
The 30-Day Justice Plan
As the reset of America is underway, understanding the role you can play in a system of change can be difficult, but we encourage you to listen, learn and be active. To start, instead of, say, a juice cleanse, feed your brain and move yourself with this practical plan over the next month. Here's our guide of what to read, watch, listen to and do in order to be part of the solution.
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GlobalMindED and the SDG Impact Fund are delighted to announce GlobalMindED's Donor Advised Fund. 2020 is the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations and the 25th Anniversary of the Beijing Women's Declaration and Action Platform. Many from around the world are thinking of 2020 as the gateway to our most vital decade for delivering equity, the Sustainable Development Goals, and a world where all can thrive. Our key time for these outcomes is 2020-2030.
GlobalMindED DAF and the SDG Impact Fund are a powerful combined force for good as the 2019 year comes to a close and we reflect on the gratitude and the commitments we make to the causes we care most about. The DAF offers immense power and flexibility for giving prior to the year's end as you plant seeds of generous intention for 2020 and the decade ahead.
When you contribute to GlobalMindED, you support First Gen students. We have served more than 400 students by connecting them to role models, mentors, internships and jobs. Your generous support will allow us to take our work 10x and reach these talented students at scale who lack the resources and support we provide. Your support also helps teachers who can't afford the conference fees, faculty at colleges which are under resourced and students who persist at those universities despite food insecurity and/or housing insecurity.
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Meet GlobalMindED Founder, Carol Carter as interviewed by Tim Moore on his podcast Success Made to Last: From Success to Significance
Listen to Part 1 of Carol's interview
Listen to Part 2 of Carol's interview
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Recent GlobalMindED Newsletter Profiles:
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Since 2006 when the flagship TGR Learning Lab opened its doors in Anaheim, CA, TGR Foundation has had a lot to celebrate, including its most recent milestone of one million students impacted by TGR EDU: Explore, alone.
Developed in partnership with Discovery Education, TGR EDU: Explore is a free digital resource library that offers interactive web experiences, lesson plans, training videos and tools for educators, students and families to explore new disciplines and gain skills for a modern and expanding workforce.
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As you start the New Year, are you looking for ways to re-engineer your classroom culture? Check out Designing the Future: How Engineering Builds Creative Critical Thinking in the Classroom. The associated website has lots of activities, projects, and resources you can implement immediately. Our fall workshops using the book as a roadmap for change have been highly successful. Start designing the future today - try using the customized Study Guide for a book study in your PLC. Or contact ProjectEngin or Solution Tree to learn how you can bring professional development based on Ann's book to your school, district, or conference.
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