Workplace Diversity

Dr. Andre Hornsby has 35 years of experience in Public Education. His work has been in higher education and k-12 education. Dr. Hornsby's administrative career has been in multiple school districts across The United States, the smallest being 8000 students and the very largest of a million students in America. He has held various positions in his career such as educator, teacher, magnet school tea...

Dr. Raj Sethuraju: Raj is a recovering criminologist, alcoholic, and survivor of sexual abuse, with over 20 years of community-based activism as a researcher and educator. Inspired by the resilience of our youth and the men in our prison systems, he trains school staff, probation agents, community members, and justice personnel on restorative practices, trauma and healing, value-centered leadershi...

Anne Buchanan brings together a unique combination of restorative justice principles and practices to support people who want to find a better way to work through conflict, disagreements, and misunderstandings whether through our legal systems, schools, faith-based communities, families or organizations, her practice is based on the belief that repairing relationships should be the primary focus f...

Christian De Leon has worked as a social worker for over 8 years, she has worked with hospice patients, people with disabilities, and school-age children. Christian's experience has taught her that everyone requires assistance at some point in time in life. The goal is always to find ways to bridge gaps between the communities and available resources. Her social worker model is: support, advocate,...

Teresa is the #1 international best-selling author of "Mass Influence: The Habits of the Highly Influential" which has been on the best-sellers list in seven countries over the past six years. The four-time international best-selling author Teresa teaches marketing courses around the globe to business leaders and entrepreneurs on how to create massively successful word-of-mouth campaigns. Teresa h...

Pastor Bruce Parks has been married to his lovely wife, Tavier Parks, for 27 years. They have three children. Bruce and Tavier have pastored Revival House Church in Spring Texas for the last 24 years. He has and continues to minister internationally and domestically. Because of the diversity of his congregation, he is well-versed in identifying Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Tolerance training i...

About Dr. Nikki Chamblee: She has been an educator for 19+ years and is licensed in New York and Texas in the areas of English Language Arts, Special Education, and English as a second language.  She has received extensive training in restorative practices including a graduate certificate, She currently provides training as a restorative practices instructor. From 2017 to 2020, she has started her...

Eduardo Briceño is a global keynote speaker, facilitator, and guide supporting leaders cultivating growth mindset cultures.  Prior to that he was the CEO of Mindset Works, the pioneer in growth mindset development services, which he co founded in 2007 with Stanford professor Carol Dweck, Lisa Blackwell, and others, and led for over a decade.  Before that he was a technology investor with Credit Su...

Robert W. Mixon, Jr. is a retired U.S. Army Major General, former President of a manufacturing company, EVP of a diverse, innovative not for profit company, and Leadership Consultant. He serves as a faculty member at the Thayer Leader Development Group at West Point and various premier business schools including The Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester, The Olin Business School...

Welcome to the fourth season of Workplace Diversity! In this season, we'll be discussing how training relating to diversity is maintained and sustained once completed. There are two factors that come into play: first, the training must be ongoing and not just one and done; second, tolerance must be seen as something that's as crucial as any part of the training.    Connect with Dr. Gaye Lang: Don'...

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Nancy Riestenberg is a member of the Minnesota Restorative Practices Community. She's also the author of "Circle in the Square: Building Community and Repairing Harm in School". She has worked for a long time in violence prevention, asset promotion, and restorative practices in school. For fun, Nancy likes sitting in circles with others.    In this episode Dr. Gaye Lang and Nancy Riestenberg discu...

Abdul Malik Muhammad: Equity in the Workplace and in the World   For nearly three decades, Dr. Abdul Malik Muhammad has been serving both youth and adults as an educator, transformational leader, entrepreneur, and author. Always working with the underserved in the urban and rural areas, he has focused on the development of boys to men, has been active in social justice and building progressive org...

Jennifer McCready-Resnick is a school counselor in Texas. This is her 28th year in education, she's a graduate of Trinity University, B.A and M.A in Teaching and University of North Texas M.E.D. in Counselling. In her current job, she helps implement restorative practices in the fall of 2018 as a relational approach to build school culture and address student behavior with the focus on belonging o...

Jeffrey Clemmons Episode 8 Season 3 Equity in the workplace and in the world Jeffrey Clemmons is a senior studying Political Science at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin where he serves in a number of roles on campus including President of the campus NAACP chapter. Off-campus, he is the chair of Austin's College Student Commission. He plans to continue his work in public service as a staffer f...

Butterfly Luv Hugs is the founder of Flutter Your Potential Creative Transformation Academy. She is an educational leader, an award winning teacher, transformational speaker and career coach who excels at creating and facilitating successful life skills and employability programs in a variety of educational environments. A real butterfly by nature, her life's calling is to ignite the hearts and so...

Nataline Hall has a Master's Degree in Social Work from the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley and has worked with diverse populations in the field for 15 years. She has worked with youth and adults in a variety of settings. Some of her most significant experiences include: working with youth aging out of foster care, adults diagnosed with end-stage renal disease, and managing international vo...

Queen Grant is a Shreveport Native and has 19 years of higher education experience. She currently resides in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where she is the Director of Communications and Outreach for the Louisiana Community and Technical College System. Queena has managed several successful missions teams at post-secondary institutions across Texas, California, Pennsylvania, and Nevada. She has brought g...

Dr. Darlene Brown is an independent consultant with 35 years of experience in education. She has worked at the elementary, secondary, and higher education levels. Additionally, she has served in leadership roles at Institute of Research. Dr. Brown is the Founding Director of the New Beginnings Charter School Network and a Founding Member of Edward Hynes Charter School Board of Directors in New Orl...

William A. Sommers of Austin, Texas continues to be a learner, former teacher and principal, author, leadership coach and consultant. Bill has come out of retirement multiple times to put theory into practice as apprenticeable.  Bill has been a consultant for leadership coaching, cognitive coaching, adaptive schools, leveraging polarities, brain research, poverty, habits of mind, conflict manageme...

Officer Vanessa Westley is a twenty-five year veteran of the Chicago Police Department. She has served in various positions within the Department's Patrol Division and other units. She began her service in Community Policing in 2004 under now-retired First Deputy Dana V. Starks, as project manager in the Department's CAPS Project Office. She later served as project manager for the Mayor's Office o...

Welcome to Season 3 of the Workplace Diversity Podcast. This season, I and my guests will discuss equity in the workplace and around the world. Organizations that value equity understand that each employee has varying access to privileges, and they utilize this understanding by providing more assistance to those who have less access.   Connect with Dr. Gaye Lang: Don't forget to subscribe to the s...

Thank you for joining us on Workplace Diversity  season two, see you in January for season three where we will talk about equity in the workplace and in the world.     Purchase "Colorizing Restorative Justice", "Restorative Discipline Practices" and "Seven" by clicking on this link: https://www.workplacerestorativepracticesinc.com/store/     Connect with Dr. Gaye Lang: Don't forget to subscribe to...

Marissa Valentine began her career in public affairs in 2011 when she embarked on her journey in the United States navy as a mass communications specialist. In civilian terms, that would be a journalist providing public affairs support for United States Captains, Admirals and Foreign Dignitaries. After her service was completed, Marissa worked in the Municipal Government as an aid to the Mayor of...

Attorney Jon Powell is a law professor at Campbell University in North Carolina and serves as the director of the Restorative Justice Clinic which receives referrals from the juvenile justice system, adult criminal court and Wake County schools. The clinic involves law students in all aspects of restorative justice which includes victim-offender dialogue in school and court cases, as well as victi...