2021 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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Happy March Month of Women! We will be honoring diverse women from all backgrounds, ages and stages this month as you get to know them, their path and their story. If you are a woman, get ready to see yourself in these tremendous role models. If you are a male ally, welcome, and thank you for learning how to be with wonderful women in your place of work, your family and your community. We appreciate you all and know that we need everyone to help advance opportunities for women. Today, meet Dr. Tina Opie, who chose positive action in response to difficulty, starting Shared Sisterhood - made up of sisters from all backgrounds and connecting people across differences, and becoming a professor, earning her PhD with the support of The PhD Project.
The GlobalMindED YouTube channel has over 90 DEI webinars primarily led by leaders of color with panelists from a variety of backgrounds. Share with your colleagues in your company, your university or learning institution and your children, friends and family.
Recent Equity events:
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You are a successful Black role model for so many. What took you to this level of success?
My mom was in the Marines in the sixties and my Dad was career Navy. We left St. Petersburg, FL and moved to Memphis, Tennessee. Both of my parents stressed the importance of a good education, which is the most expeditious path to equity. My success path has been circuitous as I wanted to be an anchor woman, but my Dad talked me out of it. I went undergrad to James Madison, got my MBA at Darden and PhD at NYU Stern School of Business with the help of the PhD Project which provided me unlimited support with other diverse doctoral students. We were connected through professional development and so many personal connections. Dr. Martin Davidson and Dr. Ed Freeman were two of my academic sponsors and champions.
How did you ADHD diagnosis allow you blossom, once tested?
Learning issues are common but are often taboo, but shouldn’t be. My first black teacher said, “You need to have Tina tested because I think she is gifted, but bored.” Our neighborhood which was just like the Cosby show, had no gifted and talented schools in it. So, I was bused to another neighborhood where I had my first openly racist teacher in math. Years later, one of my very best white friends said that he was her favorite teacher. She was unaware of how he treated me.
Once I was diagnosed, I worked with a brilliant executive function coach who made me make mind maps of raw data with tips and skills to focus on removing extraneous material. My husband has ADD and he, too, is a professor. Working through your learning issues makes you strong and we can manage most of these inherent challenges.
You study authentication and what others won’t say. What can you tell us about racism you’ve experienced?
I’ve experienced all matter of racism. As a child, I know what it is like to get in the neighborhood pool and have all white kids get out of the pool. I had a harsh introduction to Boston, which is cloaked in liberalism and openness but has deep racist roots. When we were looking for a home to rent before we bought, a landlord was ready to lease to us knowing we were both professors. When we showed up to see the house, the landlord said it was no longer for rent. Our relator, outraged, called the landlord and sure enough it was not yet rented. This was in 2010! I often say, “All that glitters isn’t gold.” We had similar experiences with our children in the K-12 school system in the Wellesley area.
How have you proactively overcome these impediments you have faced?
I started the Shared Sisterhood, made up of sisters from all backgrounds, connecting people across differences. I started it with my white ally through Academy of Management, Dr. Beth Livingston. We have a “dig and bridge” process to surface the attitudes, emotions, deep-seeded beliefs and assumptions that people hold. Once those are “surfaced” you can understand how you see yourself and the world, in order to change and improve it. Black women and white women came together in the suffrage movement and we can come together now in the most powerful ways. We look up to women from history like Ida B Wells and so many others that are examples from the early 1900’s for us today.
Bio: Dr. Tina Opie, the founder of Opie Consulting Group LLC, brings more than 20 years of experience in strategic management and organizational behavior. An award-winning researcher, consultant and Associate Professor of Management at Babson College, Dr. Opie advises large firms in the financial services, entertainment, media, beauty, educational, and healthcare industries. As a consultant, she provides organizations with strategic direction on how to create more diverse, inclusive and equitable workplaces.
Her consulting work has helped organizations such as American Express, Hulu and the NFL. Dr. Opie’s work has appeared in such outlets as O Magazine, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and Harvard Business Review. She is also a regular commentator on Harvard Business Review’s Women at Work podcast and Greater Boston’s NPR affiliate television station WGBH. As a thought leader who combines practice and theory, her work has proven to generate high-impact solutions that unleash the power of authenticity in organizations.
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Click below to watch the Inclusive Leader Award Ceremony featuring inspirational messages from the diverse Award Winners
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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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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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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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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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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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