Amanda Askell
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 30 Apr
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The Matt Walsh Show · Ep. 1771 - The Worst People Imaginable are Building the Future · 30 Apr 2026
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Corporate study found that talented white employees enter a fast track on the corporate ladder, arriving in middle management well before their peers, while talented black, Hispanic or Latinx professionals broke through much later.
Effective mentorship and sponsorship were critical for retention and executive level development of black, Hispanic and Latinx employees.
So this leads me into sharing an inclusion failure of mine, one of many, but just one that I'll share so far.
I messed up with inclusion almost right away when I first became a manager.
I made some stupid assumptions about the fact that I built a diverse team, that then they'd simply feel welcome and it will feel supported.
I treated every member of my team the same and expected that that would lead to equally good outcomes for everyone.
That was not true.
I got some feedback that a couple of members of my team didn't feel they belonged because there is no one who looked like them in the broader org or our management team.
It was a wake up call for me.
First, I shouldn't have had to wait to be told what was missing.
It was on me to ensure I was building an environment that made people feel they belong.
It's a myth that you're not unfair if you treat everyone the same.
There are groups that have been marginalized and excluded because of historic systems and structures that were intentionally designed to favor one group over another.
So you need to account for that and mitigate against it.
Second, it challenged me to identify mentoring and sponsorship opportunities for my team members with people who looked more like them and were in senior positions across the company.
You can teach it how to be ethical?
feel like they might be more impactful.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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