Ep 24: A Conversation On Accountability, Antiracism and Authenticity - How Dr. Akilah Cadet Is Doing The Work and Teaching Others To Do The Same Through Her DEIB Firm, Change Cadet
Today’s episode features Dr. Akilah Cadet, Founder and CEO of Change Cadet a diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging consulting firm. Dr. Cadet embarked on a career in public health, advocating for communities of color and other underrepresented groups. However, faced with bureaucracy, not feeling valued, a never ending pattern of "isms" and barriers that Black women often face in the workplace, along with feeling limited and boxed into the ideals and expectations of the corporate workforce, Dr. Cadet made a decision to bet on herself for her happiness, her mental health, and her power to make a real impact for BIPOC and other underrepresented communities on her own terms. Listen as we discuss Dr. Cadet's path to founding Change Cadet, what meaningful diversity and inclusion work looks like in 2021 in light of the protests of 2020, the biggest pitfalls and errors that companies and individual make when trying to educate themselves on being anti-racist, talking race and politics in the workplace, and how she maintains her personal boundaries and self care amid a year where demand for her work is at an all-time high.