Stuart Shanker

Kathryn interviews Author DDS Dobson-Smith. Belonging is an archetypal experience that we all seek. In the workplace, a sense of belonging will only happen if you have both diversity and inclusion. When you facilitate diversity in hiring practices and instill inclusive policies, procedures and behaviors, your organization has its best chance of creating a culture that supports a sense of belonging for everyone. Diversity is a fact. Inclusion is a behavior. Belonging is an experience. Diversity is a fact in that you can look around you and note that there are people like yourself alongside people who aren’t like you. Inclusion, meanwhile, is a set of behaviors, frameworks or approaches that promote psychological safety and connectedness among team members. DDS Dobson-Smith is a licensed therapist, author, executive coach, speaker on leadership and growth. He is the Founder and CEO of SoulTrained, an executive coaching and leadership growth consultancy.Kathryn also interviews Author Stuart Shanker. For Stuart Shanker, the possibility of a truly just and free society begins with how we see and nurture our children. He is renowned for using cutting-edge neuroscience to help children feel happy and think clearly by better regulating themselves. The paradigm revolution presented by Shanker not only helps us understand the harrowing time we are living through, but inspires a profound sense of hope for the future. He shares that there is no such thing as a bad kid, or a fixed outcome and that all people can learn to self-regulate in ways that promote rather than constrict growth. Shanker shows us how to build a compassionate society, one mind at a time. He is a distinguished research professor emeritus of philosophy and psychology at York University and a bestselling author on the topic of self-regulation and child development.