Shift AI Podcast Showing up for Each Other at Work and the Culture of Joy | with Jyarland Daniels (Director Diversity & Inclusion, Niantic)
May 15, 2023
34:02
In this episode of Shift AI, Jyarland Daniels shares her perspective on company culture and how companies can touch on our emotions and move us in important ways. We touch on topics around being surrounded by mentors and passionate people face to face early in your career and how this can shape your perspective on career development. Jyarland expands on her mentors as she navigated work in the civil rights movement to her time in a corporate environment and into her time in big tech. She also speaks eloquently about how diversity and inclusion can show up for all of us in the office in an inclusive and joyful way.
In this episode of Shift AI, we cover:
- Jyarland’s experience and background including her time at Hallmark Cards within their entrepreneurial business unit that sparked her passion for technology and innovation.
- Family of origin and how an employee’s diversity of experience in early development and how that can shape your perspective on the value of work.
- How mentorship has shown up for her throughout her life and how this has informed he approach to culture in the office.
- Examples of diversity of inclusion at work and the power of being able to communicate with our colleagues in a compassionate, honest and open way.
- The work that Jyarland does at Harriet Speaks, her consultancy that support corporations in the area of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB)
- How DEIB shows up at Niantic in a technology corporate culture based in Silicon Valley.
- Work hacks focused on focus working and daily intentions that set the stage for the following day.
- How inclusiveness coupled with joy can transform the way that people come together to do big things.
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