32. Leading Inclusion (with Gena Cox)

32. Leading Inclusion (with Gena Cox)

Dr. Gena Cox is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and author of the new book, Leading Inclusion, a groundbreaking guidebook for corporate leaders who want to build inclusive organizations from the top down. Gena, CEO of Feels Human, LLC, has spent more than 25 years helping leaders build healthy organizational cultures and measuring employee opinions. Before this, at IBM and Perceptyx, Gena advised leaders in the Fortune 500 and other large global companies to build psychologically healthy and engaging organizational cultures that drive business outcomes. A noted voice on human-centered leadership, Gena shows executives how to stop using 2019 behavior to address 2022 workplace challenges 

In this episode:

• Gena shares insights, collected from years of experience, colleagues, and clients, about the lack of understanding of people who are different from us and how to bridge that leadership gap.
• She shares what she wants readers to take away from her new book, Leading Inclusion.
• Gena states what she believes is the biggest challenge organizations face with inclusion.
• Gena shares her best tip for leaders of teams to be more inclusive.
• She shares the first steps to bring more inclusion into an organization.
• Gena shares the legacy she hopes to leave behind and how she feels after writing her book.

Gena's Book Recommendation is:

• Seen Heard and Paid

To connect with Gena and learn more about her:

• genacox.com

Links to Gena's Book

• genacox.com/book

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