HOW TO TALK TO YOUR BOSS ABOUT RACE
Speaking Up Without Getting Shut Down
A necessary guidebook and toolkit on building an equitable workplace for the future by Y-Vonne Hutchinson.
IT’S TIME TO TALK ABOUT RACE AT WORK
Our personal and professional lives have seen a lot of change happening in the 2020s — from the impact of Covid and its disproportionate damage on marginalized communities to dealing with the Great Resignation and the new workplace. Through it all, we’ve seen an increased push for equity and against racism in all facets of life, especially at work.
HOW TO TALK TO YOUR BOSS ABOUT RACE
This book serves as a primer to start really thinking about race at work. This book will prepare readers to have frank and effective conversations, help center marginalized perspectives, and explain how to leverage power dynamics to get results while navigating backlash and gaslighting. Whether you are a CEO, Human Resources Manager, or a College Intern.
Y-VONNE HUTCHINSON
CEO and founder of ReadySet, a diversity and inclusion training firm that helps tech giants, political leaders, media outlets, and Fortune 500 companies speak more productively about racism and turn talk into action. A graduate of Harvard Law, Hutchinson worked as an international labor and human rights lawyer for nearly a decade before founding ReadySet.
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Bring ReadySet to your organization to help people successfully undertake allyship at work and beyond. By illustrating the stakes of allyship as well as practical tools to achieve it, this interactive training provides an optimal way to foster healthy workplaces for all.
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Host Y-Vonne as a speaker to talk about her work as CEO and founder of ReadySet and present on How to Talk to Your Boss About Race.
This can be followed up by a book-signing.
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Hold a more personal conversation with Y-Vonne on her story, what she sees as the future for workplaces, and the making of How to Talk to Your Boss About Race. This can be followed by an open Q&A.
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Y-Vonne is available to be an expert on panels around the themes related to her book “How to Talk to Your Boss About Race” which includes workplace discrimination, the future of DEI, and her role as the CEO and founder of ReadySet.
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"Hutchinson’s book, in one sense, is about power—and a reminder that employees have the ability to make change happen, too."
Forbes
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"Y-Vonne Hutchinson’s work is essential for anyone who wants to start or advance a conversation about racial equity at work. I wish I’d had this book earlier in my career!”
Alison Green
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"This book will let everyone, from top to bottom, understand how power works, what kinds of power they have, and, most importantly, how each and every one of us should use our power to dismantle racism, too."
Ellen Pao
Co-founder of Project Include and author of Reset -
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“Many people finally recognize the importance of talking about race at work, but few know where to start. Having dedicated much of her career to building more diverse and inclusive workplaces, Y-Vonne Hutchinson has the practical tips we need to start these conversations—and keep them going.”
Adam Grant
#1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife -
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“Many self-help and business books tell readers how to get ahead in the workplace without ever mentioning how difficult it is for Black people and people of color to show up authentically and find success in white spaces. Hutchinson’s How to Talk to Your Boss About Race is both a hilarious how-to guide as well as a memoir about her own experience as a Black woman insistent upon a truly inclusive work environment.”
ELLE Magazine
