From the course: Confronting Bias: Thriving Across Our Differences

You're all in it together

- The coolest thing about understanding and talking about diversity inclusion is that it's an important skill from, for everyone of every generation. In fact, the thing that I noticed a lot about the work that I've been doing more recently is that, we're at a time where we have all these generations in the same workplace. And they're often missing each other. Or misinterpreting each other. Or not valuing each other for what they can bring. You know, we've got the people who are my age. The baby boomers are saying, like, I don't know what's wrong with those moral in millennials. And, you know, they don't want to work hard. And they want social. And they want, they want balance in their lives. Or whatever we say. But the point is that we're not actually fully understanding that this generation and the generation after it, they're our future. They have a different way of seeing the world, honestly. Because they come through a different generational lens, just like we do. And when I think about generation, it's, it's a great place to sort of understand where respect and inclusion sits and then where it falls off. As a young person, you have this experience of maybe not, assumed to be as good or as capable as an experienced person or older person. And you get into that sweet spot of life where everything is working well and people think you're confident and it's all good until, you get a little bit older, and then all people are wondering whether you're going to understand technology. Or whether you're just obsolete at this point. So I'm really excited about having this conversation with everyone from every generation and sort of understanding what we each can learn from each other.

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