Tori Pelletier4 minHow Toxic Positivity Stifles Growth in the WorkplaceWhen people think of toxic workplaces, their minds can often go to ones with low employee morale, micromanagement, public shaming, lack...
Kate Stitham5 minCourageous Dialogue: Transforming Moral Convictions through ConversationWe can all hit walls where the idea of talking to someone, of changing their mind, or just getting them to just see reason feels...
Kate Stitham3 minCritical Consciousness: The Path to Transformative ActionIf we cannot see the world for what is, we cannot transform it. The Brazilian theorist Paulo Freire first coined the term...
Kate Stitham5 minCode-Switching in the Workplace: Understanding Cultures of PowerUnpack how power operates in our workplaces and creates inequities.
Kate Stitham3 minAddressing The Disproportionate Impact of Covid-19Though the virus itself does not discriminate across race and socio-economic lines, the economic and societal impacts are much more devastat
Kate Stitham6 minMy Journey to Equity Work: Understanding Whiteness in the Context of HawaiiThere are many moments that led me to the path I am on today. In these "Journey" posts, I aim to explore the different elements that...
Kate Stitham6 minHow Bias Influences Perception: Three Lenses of Positionality In his 2011 book on the topic, Daniel Kahneman defined two systems operating in our brains that he termed fast and slow. Our slow brain...