DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION THOUGHT LEADER TALKS ABOUT ‘WHAT’S THE DEIL’
Firm and co-host of “What’s the DEIL” podcast.
layers of her identity, with her dad going to church and her
mother going to Synagogue. She knew she wanted to be
very involved in learning about different governments and
cultures. In college, she studied International Relations.
& Mindfulness Coach at The Norfus Firm, are the hosts of the “What’s the DEIL” podcast. DEIL stands for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Leadership. The podcast was launched because data showed that the projects they engaged in were going to be made or broken by senior leader involvement. What they were running into were leaders who were unsure of what they were supposed to be doing when it came to DEI. They were scared to say or do the wrong things, so they ended up doing nothing.
those senior leaders about what their role is in this work,
and it doesn’t require them to know every single thing there
is to know. That it’s important to be OK with making mistakes;
it’s how you recover from the mistakes,” she said, adding that
the podcast also covers what leaders should be doing on a
daily basis without needing to be told to do it.
leaders are facing and giving them ways to think about those
issues, how to handle the issues and how to move forward. Norfus hopes people will get confidence to seek the skills it takes to do DEI work from listening to the podcast. She also hopes they will hear something that triggers that confidence.
and strong people practices so that everyone feels they belong, they feel valued, and they know what it takes to be successful. “The goal is to get these leaders in a place where they’re seeing there are inequities, there are people who aren’t given a fair shot and what is my role in trying to rectify that,” she added.
com.orfus Firm, visit thenorfusfirm.com.
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