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What will you be doing on September 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation? We invite you to Reflect, Engage, & Commit. *Reflect* on what you’ve done over the past year to advance reconciliation. Avoid judging yourself, simply note what you’ve done and check in with yourself about how you feel about your efforts. Have you: 🧡 increased your consumption of media, art, writing, etc. by indigenous content creators? 🧡 compensated those whose content you consume?   🧡 taken tangible steps to correct your education on Canada’s history? 🧡 built relationships with indigenous people?  🧡 written your own land acknowledgement including understanding your own positionality and relationship to the land and with Indigenous People? 🧡 participated in ceremony? How else have you invested time, effort, and money in reconciliation? *Engage* on September 30 to honour survivors, their families and communities. Wear your orange-shirt purchased from an indigenous creator. If you don’t have one, don’t let that prevent you from attending. Find out what’s happening in your locale and participate in an event (or two or three!). Examples may include: film screenings, discussions, commemorative walks, powwows, and markets. Post a link to your plans in the comments. Participate fully, listen carefully, and stand beside and behind Indigenous folx. *Commit* to reconciliACTION for the coming year. 🧡 How will you walk forward?  What specific actions will you take? 🧡 What will you invest to advance reconciliation?  🧡 Are you willing to embrace discomfort? What does that look like for you?  🧡 Is there a particular one of the 94 Calls to Action that you will commit to? Write your commitment down, or better yet, post it in the comments below. Make a plan for a monthly progress check-in with yourself, or better yet, with others walking with you. #TruthandReconciliation #OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters #NDTR #Reconciliation Katie Smith-Parent Torrie Turner, P.Geol Julie Hawco, P.Eng Andrea Coli Mauricio Flores HeidiLynne Balasch Jake Stika Next Gen Men Young Women in Energy (YWE) Canadian Coalition of Women in Science, Engineering, Trades and Technology (CCWESTT) Joy Brown Ontario Society of Professional Engineers Morgan Craig-Broadwith, MBA

I’ll be speaking at MTMP on the difficult (but necessary) topic of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: How to Keep Your Team Looking Like the Future of Mass Torts! Please swing by and join the discussion. We need champions and allies alike to level up the system ✨

“The people with lived experience are a resource. They’re a resource from the community.” —Ronald Simpson-Bey, JustLeadershipUSA Executive Vice President of Strategic Partnerships Watch the full video: https://lnkd.in/gwx3PA33 #CriminalJustice #CriminalJusticeReform #OurExperienceIsOurExpertise

How can we develop anti-racist practices within our organisations that support equity, justice and liberation? Find out at our Building Inclusive Cultures workshop on 1 May, where speakers from the sector discuss how to be an inclusive VCSE leader 👇 https://lght.ly/15i44l2

What do you do when your senior leadership doesn't represent the full diversity of the stakeholders you serve? It can take a long time for the c-suite table to become more diverse. That doesn't mean the organization is doomed to produce one-size-fits-all products and solution, or that it can't generate innovative, equitable services and programming. I was discussing this issue today on a consulting call and was reminded of this interview clip with one of Tidal Equality's enduring champions, Jeff Dodds (now the star CEO of Formula E). If you want to skip ahead, it's at about the 3-min mark that he talks about how a leadership team can make strides to ensure their decision-making is as equitable and inclusive as possible. Check it out! https://lnkd.in/g2DHy5As

Building bridges between the generations - Listen as we spoke to Guillermo Salazar and explore some of the generational challenges associated with family firms and how conversations and understanding can help drive alignment and create engagement by building bridges between the generations. The session covers a number of themes including the need to understand individual biases and preferences, history and values, the emergence of a shred dream and alignment of purpose. https://lnkd.in/evgq33-T

I hope the presentation on Black Cladding goes well Matthew Karakoulakis and helps make inroads to putting an end to this behaviour. We are witnessing corporate behaviour across many sectors being put under the spotlight and being held to account. Hopefully those businesses that engage in Black Cladding will have their day in the spotlight too and be held to account. In the meantime though these Black Cladding organisations will still probably come out with virtue signalling in support of the Voice referendum, whilst at the same time reaping profits for themselves from their Black Cladding activities. These are behaviours which go against everything that Voice, Treaty and Truth stand for. To the employees in those businesses, maybe it is time you hold the directors in these businesses to account. Are their values really what you want to be part of? To the purchasers of services from these businesses, maybe it is time you took a deeper look at what sits behind these businesses rather than just tick a box that you have met Indigenous procurement targets. Well done Matthew Karakoulakis for continuing to keep this issue front and centre. #blackcladding #supplynation #australiangovernment #indigenousbusiness

"On its most basic level, this work is about being in right relationship, recognizing that white supremacy culture has conditioned us to make that impossible without reprogramming ourselves. Being in right relationship takes careful practice and reflection." Build, Maintain, Repair - A simple yet profound framework from Shehnaz Jagpal and Tamir Novotny (he/they) that strengthens your equity container and allows your team to work through conflict with the honest, vulnerable conversations needed to dismantle white supremacy 🛠️🔧 Want to learn how to put this framework into practice at your organization? 🗓️ Join us November 1 & 8 for Building an Equity Container: Operationalizing Equity by Tending To Your Holding Environment. Read the blog post at https://lnkd.in/dSz7S8DF Register for the workshop at https://lnkd.in/dGZ4ix7k

As an investor in Altro, it's my pleasure to share that one of our founders, Michael Broughton, has been selected for the inaugural Obama Leaders USA program. His vision of building credit through subscriptions is an innovative step toward financial inclusion, and this recognition is testament to his leadership and the potential of ALTRO. Here's to a future of financial empowerment for all. #ObamaLeaders #FinTech #InvestingInChange https://lnkd.in/e3F4fW-U

A big part of the Partnership's impact work happens through our policy committees, which convene business and community leaders to fuel growth and opportunity in the Houston region. ➡️Learn more about our committees and the work they do to help make Houston greater: https://ow.ly/A0Iz50QW1Gk