We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits 312. Building Equitable + Sustainable Systems to Deepen Impact - Otisa Eads
Overview
Meet Otisa. This Human Resources & Systems Strategist combines her great love for nonprofit HR with DEIJ (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion + Justice) to ensure equitable hiring happens from the beginning. We’re chatting through how to acquire the best talent to take our missions further and why systems and mindsets are essential to making it happen. This is not your grandma’s operations nor DEI discussion. Join us and let’s level up together!
💡Learn
- Equitable hiring practices 🙌
- Common missteps leaders make in hiring
- Systems creation for processes & evaluations
- Common unconscious biases baked into our hiring systems & practices
Episode Highlights
- Otisa’s story and journey to where she is today (2:30)
- How to bake equity into hiring practices (9:15)
- Missteps leaders are making in hiring decisions (19:35)
- De-biasing the workplace (25:00)
- A powerful story of philanthropy in Otisa’s life (35:00)
- Otisa’s One Good Thing: Figure out how to incorporate play and joy. (39:00)
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