63. Embracing All Parts of You: What You See vs Who You Are with Annemarie Shrouder

Annemarie Shrouder is passionate about creating healthy workplace communities where people feel seen, heard and valued - and can thrive.   To advocate for change, Annemarie facilitates engaging, dynamic and interactive presentations with the goal to help audiences think differently about diversity, to understand the importance of inclusion, and inspire the creation of healthy workplace communities.   Her signature methodology is called the ‘ABCs of Inclusion’ and works on two premises - that inclusion is an outcome and that leadership has to "get it" and build their capacity first, in order for change to be effective.    She believes strategy drives change and helps solidify commitment to diversity and inclusion and one of her strategic writings includes her best-selling book, Being Brown in a Black and White World.   So dive in, get your ‘Aha moment’ for the day, and let’s learn about embracing all parts of you: BOTH what you see AND who you are!  [00:01 - 7:59] Opening Segment   I introduce Annemarie Shrouder Bio  Annemarie shares a bit about her background and revelations How she started her career as an elementary school teacher Active member of the LBTQ+ community A glaring need for people to see themselves in other things Working with organizations to help them realize how they view the world  ‘Aha moment’ - when people understand we are in the same situation We all have different experiences What needs to be changed in our perspective It’s ok to see color, gender and identity  Look at the way kids can see glaring differences  We seem to learn to ascribe value to people   [08:00 - 25:37] Embracing All Parts of You: What You See vs Who You Are   Annemarie reveals how every part of who you are is important A poem from Annemarie’s book  “... as if these can’t coexist: b