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AI Risk Readiness: The Q4 2025 Imperative
The recent U.S. government shutdown didn't just disrupt operations - it exposed critical vulnerabilities in how we manage emerging...
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Oct 102 min read


DEI: Stop Arguing Over the Acronym. Start Debating the Principle.
The current backlash around DEI - diversity, equity, and inclusion - has become less about what it means and more about what the acronym...
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Jul 232 min read


When DEI Cuts Stall Farming: It Goes Beyond the Ideology and Extends to Economic Risk
With career experience in economic, workforce, and community development and now pivoting to center my professional endeavors around...
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Jul 203 min read


Boycotts and DEI: A Complicated Equation
Do boycotts help or hurt the case for DEI? Boycotts send a powerful message: discrimination has consequences. They give voice to...
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Jun 22 min read


Steady Amid Chaos: Building Organizational Safeguards in Uncertain Times
In today's volatile political climate, organizations face an unprecedented challenge: navigating a landscape where executive actions are...
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Mar 122 min read


Change Management: When Strategic Shortsightedness Emerges as A Key Risk
Change is inevitable and often necessary for growth and survival, especially in today's dynamic environment of unprecedented disruption....
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Feb 114 min read


Communication Currency: A Critical Success Factor for Navigating Your Corporate DEI Strategy
In today's polarized landscape, organizations are discovering that how they communicate about their diversity, equity, and inclusion...
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Jan 274 min read


Diversity: Bad for People, Good for Portfolios?
It’s interesting how the word “diversity” is rejected when spoken in the context of people but is acceptable when spoken in terms of...
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Jan 232 min read


Impactful Engagement Goes Beyond Mere Communication
In today's complex business environment, many organizations make the mistake of equating stakeholder engagement with mere communication,...
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Jan 212 min read


The Anti-DEI Sentiment is a Distraction: Focus on Impact, Not Ideology
For those who have carefully studied the U.S. Supreme Court's Opinion in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) with a keen eye for legal...
srjosephlawfirm
Jan 131 min read


The Corporate Cost of DEI Backlash: Making the Case for Defamation as A Viable Legal Defense
Recent attacks on corporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs have created a troubling paradox: companies with strong DEI...
srjosephlawfirm
Jan 63 min read


Stakeholder Capitalism: Navigating the Intersection with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Diversity is not a zero-sum game where one stakeholder group's gain represents another's loss. Instead, it's a nuanced strategic lever...
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Dec 11, 20244 min read


MEI v. DEI: An Acceptable, Alternative Acronym Only If Merit and Diversity Are Complementary Forces
As the backlash continues about “DEI”, mostly revolving around connotations associated with the acronym, let’s give benefit of the doubt...
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Dec 8, 20243 min read


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Sep 3, 20240 min read


The “DEI Hire”: Distracting & Obstructionist Language that Creates Equal Harm to Your People Agenda
The notion of a "DEI hire" wrongly frames DEI as a race-driven effort. It fuels a false perception that DEI creates advantages for some...
srjosephlawfirm
Aug 25, 20243 min read


TULIP's Workforce Experience Risk Assessment tool offers a methodology, a formula and a metric to safeguard business outcomes by mitigating and managing enterprise people risks
At TULIP, we use a proprietary, data-driven tool to identify and mitigate workforce experience risks impacting business outcomes. EVERY...
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Aug 17, 20242 min read


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Jul 31, 20240 min read


Top Workforce Risks in the Healthcare Industry: Burnout & Lack of Appreciation
The work that we do at TULIP is industry-agnostic. That’s because enterprise people risks exist wherever there are people working. ...
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Jul 11, 20242 min read


Retooling Feedback Culture: An Engagement Strategy for Managing & Mitigating Workforce Risks
Recent research shows that frequent feedback is a growing demand from Gen Z; therefore, the future of work is likely to require that the...
srjosephlawfirm
Jun 23, 20242 min read


Employee Engagement: A Lever for Accelerating the Strategic Advisory Value of HR and Managing Workforce Risks
Recently, a group of state attorneys general submitted a letter to the American Bar Association (ABA) in support of law school...
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Jun 21, 20243 min read
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