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The Chief Psychology Officer
Exploring the topics of workplace psychology and conscious leadership. Amanda is an award-winning Chartered Psychologist, with vast amounts of experience in talent strategy, resilience, facilitation, development and executive coaching. A Fellow of the Association for Business Psychology and an Associate Fellow of the Division of Occupational Psychology within the British Psychological Society (BPS), Amanda is also a Chartered Scientist. Amanda is a founder CEO of Zircon and is an expert in leadership in crisis, resilience and has led a number of research papers on the subject; most recently Psychological Safety in 2022 and Resilience and Decision-making in 2020. With over 20 years’ experience on aligning businesses’ talent strategy with their organizational strategy and objectives, Amanda has had a significant impact on the talent and HR strategies of many global organizations, and on the lives of many significant and prominent leaders in industry. Dr Amanda Potter can be contacted on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amandapotterzircon www.theCPO.co.uk
The Chief Psychology Officer
Ep16 Putting Race on the Agenda
In this special episode for Black History Month, we invite our guest Maurice Mcleod (pronounced as 'Morris' by his friends), the CEO of ROTA (Race on the Agenda), to give his views on how racism has changed over his lifetime, and how we as individuals and organisations can learn from and support Black, Asian and other ethnic minority colleagues. We discuss the impact on personal judgement and decision-making and what we can each personally do to be more inclusive and become true allies.
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Timestamps
Race on the Agenda
· 00:00 – Introduction to Race on the Agenda
· 01:24 – Maurice Mcleod Career History
· 01:45 – ROTA Explained
· 03:02 – Structurally speaking…
· 04:17 – Who does ROTA partner with?
· 05:28 – Trust & Safety panel
Breaking barriers
· 07:14 – Our allies
· 08:30 – Curiosity doesn’t kill the cat
· 09:07 – Psychological Safety revisited
· 10:36 – Watch our language
· 11:31 – Race is non-existent?
· 12:49 – Intentions are what we need to look for!
· 13:35 – Transcontinental barriers
· 14:58 – Context
Born in the USA
· 16:26 – Growing up in the Deep South…
· 17:00 – Code-switching
· 17:18 – “White Voice”
· 18:32 – Conversations with friends
· 20:39 – Watch how you speak!
· 21:28 – Accentuation
· 22:17 – The Eton choristers
· 22:45 – Interaction from a couple’s perspective
In the workplace
· 23:46 – Equity vs. Equality
· 25:00 – Being authentic
· 26:14 – The work perspective
· 27:07 – Impact of COVID and Home-working
· 29:12 – The Statistics (US based)
Hardwired
· 29:53 – Steven Bartlett vs. Malcolm Gladwell
· 30:48 – Not everybody’s existence is like this…
· 32:07 – Personal experiences of racism in the workplace
· 34:32 – Micro-aggressions
· 35:45 – Overt or Covert?
· 37:39 – Are things changing?
· 38:36 – The end.
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