by Pam Hernandez | Jul 14, 2019 | Coaching, Corporate Culture, Front Page, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Coaching
I was reading about an interesting personality trait called “intellectual humility.” Intellectual humility is defined as, “an awareness that one’s beliefs may be wrong.” Researchers at Duke University did a number of studies. In one study, participants read essays...
by Pam Hernandez | Jun 17, 2019 | Coaching, Corporate Culture, Front Page, Leadership, Personal Growth, Relationships
In diversity and inclusion work, one of the hardest concepts for people to grasp is the difference between intent and impact. Often, when we’re told that something we did or said was hurtful, demeaning, discriminatory etc., we’ll respond sincerely, “That wasn’t my...
by Pam Hernandez | May 27, 2019 | Corporate Culture, Front Page, Leadership, Personal Growth, Unconscious Bias
Growing up, I always felt I didn’t have a “cool” heritage like other people. Some kids had big extended Italian or Greek or Irish or Polish families with weird food on the holidays and interesting traditions and beliefs. Then I met and married my husband who is...
by Pam Hernandez | Oct 8, 2018 | Book Reviews, Corporate Culture, Front Page, Personal Growth, Unconscious Bias
On My Kindle… What I love about this book is that it combines two of my top interests in one topic: unconscious bias and growth vs. fixed mindset. When I conduct workshops on unconscious bias, everyone is nervous to begin with. We feel that if have any bias...
by Pam Hernandez | Jul 14, 2018 | Corporate Culture, Front Page, Leadership, Unconscious Bias, workshops
When I’m doing work with companies on topics, I try to keep the above three questions in mind: What? So What? Now What? So I start by defining the issue, then move on to why it matters, and then follow up with what do we do about it. When the topic comes to...
by Pam Hernandez | Sep 27, 2017 | Career, Change, Corporate Culture, Front Page, Leadership, self confidence
The new CEO of Uber, Dara Khosrowshahi, the former CEO of Expedia, penned this departing note to his Expedia employees: I have to tell you I am scared. I’ve been here at Expedia for so long that I’ve forgotten what life is like outside this place. But the...