Overcoming Barriers to Psychological Safety - with Aurora Higgs

The week host, Dr. I. David Daniels, will speak with Aurora Higgs, a self-described “queer Black trans visionary, who’s a speaker, performer, and media producer that uses her platform to promote equity and elevate queer BIPOC voices” about their lived experience overcoming and helping others, especially those in the LGBTQIA+ community overcome barriers to psychological safety and exposure to psychosocial hazards. According to McKinsey: · Transgender adults are twice as likely as cisgender adults to be unemployed. · Cisgender employees make 32 percent more money a year than transgender employees, even when the latter have similar or higher education levels. · More than half of transgender employees say they are not comfortable being out at work. Two-thirds remain in the closet in professional interactions outside their own companies. · People who identify as transgender feel far less supported in the workplace than their cisgender colleagues do. They report that it’s more challenging to understand workplace culture and benefits and harder to get promoted. They also feel less supported by their managers. In this episode, we’re going to have a conversation with someone who can speak to these and other questions relative to psychological health and safety for of folks that are sometimes left out of traditional conversations about safety of any kind.