
Dirty Diversity
A Practical Guide to Foster an Equitable and Inclusive Workplace for All
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Janice Gassam Asare
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Janice Gassam
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Dirty Diversity is a practical guide for organizations looking to strengthen their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. This guide includes strategies for effective conversations on challenging topics, tips for creating workplace training sessions and workshops, and cost-effective ways to improve the corporate culture.
Gassam reveals her success stories as well as not-so-successful stories from her consulting experiences, and what was learned along the way. This audiobook was designed with employees, practitioners, and organizational leaders in mind.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-28-20
Very Helpful
Definitely didn’t expect to listen 5 times 😂, but it was just THAT good. I will continue to check out Janice’s work. She has a great deal of knowledge that helps DEI Professionals on their journey. Thanks for all you do!
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- Jordan
- 07-06-21
Good Read
Very easy and insightful read. The only issue I had was that the author’s voice was a bit robotic. Other that that, I highly recommend be adding this to anyone’s library.
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- Ashley N. Kirkwood, Esq.
- 06-20-20
Janice is A True Authority On DEI Issues & This Book Proves It!
This is an excellent easy-to-listen to guide that will help anyone understand how they can actively improve diversity in the workplace.
Janice also did an excellent job narrating and I loved that it was in her voice! I’m now also going to buy the book so that I can gift it to some of my DEI clients and colleagues!
She’s a true gem!
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- Kay Cee
- 12-07-20
Very Good DEI Resource
I truly enjoyed listening to this practical guide to facilitating DEI workshops in the workplace.
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