Adena Sterling is an associate professor of organizational behavior at Stanford GSB. Her work focuses on the causes and consequences of human relationships in organizations, markets. She teaches a popular elective class called Equity by Design and runs a lab by the same name. What can organizations do to help employees communicate with clients and other stakeholders?
If we want healthier companies, schools, and teams associate professor of organizational behavior Adina Sterling says investing in the health of marginalized groups “can have enormous spillover effects for everyone.”
Sterling is an organizational theorist and economic sociologist whose research explores how human relationships affect organizations and markets. As she says, “The outcomes that individuals, groups, and organizations experience have to do with the social networks that they have.”
In her class and lab, Equity by Design, Sterling explores the structural and cultural drivers of workplace inequality. In this episode of Think Fast Talk Smart, she and Matt Abrahams discuss how organizations can leverage social networks, DE&I efforts, and better communication to create better outcomes for individuals and the collective.
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