Untitled

A highly inclusive culture with a diverse workforce leads to better decisionmaking, teamwork, collaboration, financial return, customer/market perspectives, innovation, creativity, and talent engagement.

Have you ever gone to a scheduled meeting with your manager and struggled to get their attention because they pretended to hear you while constantly checking their phone or responding to emails? You feel miserable every time they do it, but it’s difficult to confront them. I’ve been in such situations and swallowed my feelings during the early years of my career. Something else that I keep experiencing while working across time zones and cultures is people complimenting me for my English language skills. They are surprised by my vocabulary and speech clarity, and they keep saying that I don’t have an accent despite being Indian. Initially, this sounded positive; only now, I realise that these were microaggressions.