Hello Dear Friends,

How are you doing?

I'm not going to extoll the virtues of why diversity makes you and your company more money! I'm taking that as read!

Rather, I'm going to talk about something else instead that could be contributing to your underrepresented "talent drain". Yes, there are many reasons why an employee may choose to leave an organisation. However if we are considering Black and People of Colour employees leaving your organisation, then we need to consider, "The Emotional Tax".

What is "The Emotional Tax"?

“This emotional tax is defined as ‘the heightened experience of being treated differently from peers due to race/ethnicity or gender, triggering adverse effects on health and feelings of isolation and making it difficult to thrive at work.” Source Catalyst Report 2016

What ways do think that it could present in an employee?

Here are 4 ways it could present itself in your employees:

❌ Burnout

❌ Stress

❌ Perfectionism

❌ Depression

It's not something that will present itself uniformly in your employees. So what remedies are there?

I shared 2 of them in my LinkedIn post today: HERE

This month's Masterclass in on the topic of Wellbeing and Inclusion, join us on 29th March, 7pm - 8:30pm UK time. Reply with "Sign me up" if you want the link for the event page when it's out soon!

Warm Regards,

Ekua

P.S. The Navigating your Career as a Black Female Professional Podcast is going live with episode 3 on difficult conversations this week with Beverly Bramwell.