Episode #24 – Overcoming Disadvantages is Possible if You Understand Your Personal Value
Dr. Tiffany Jana is committed to leaving the world better than they found it by creating spaces that work for everyone. They have learned to accept and understand themself and love themself for who they are. Dr. Jana identifies as pansexual (attracted to all kinds of people, regardless of their gender, sex or presentation) and prefers to use the pronouns they and them because they feel these pronouns more accurately represent who they are. In this episode we discuss the very real concept of privilege and how to move passed disadvantages we may have in our lives and how relationships with different people and cultures help us to grow and evolve. When we learn to see the beauty in our differences we can then see beyond these differences and see how truly similar we are in spite of them.
Bio
Dr. Tiffany Jana is the founder of TMI Consulting Incorporated, a B-Corp certified diversity and inclusion management consulting firm founded in 2003 and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Jana is the co-author of Overcoming Bias: Building Authentic Relationships Across Differences. Their second book, Erasing Institutional Bias: How to Create Systemic Change for Organizational Inclusion, is released on October 23rd, 2018. Dr. Jana is featured in the B-Corp Handbook by Ryan Honeyman, and spoke on the TEDx stage on the Power of Privilege. They recently won the Style Weekly Top 40 Under 40 Award, Diversity Journal’s Women Worth Watching Award, Entrepreneur of the Year and was recently named one of the Top 100 Leadership Speakers for 2018 on Inc.com.
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