Exploring DEI Through a Neurodivergent Lens with guest, Kathleen Johnson

In this world there are leaders, strategists, implementers, shephards, heroes...

And let's not forget, Kathleen Johnson!

CEO of Kreativ Culture Strategies where she provides Diversity Equity Inclusion, and Anti-Racism training to organizations across Canada. She is an innovative leader who partners with her clients to deliver heart-centred diversity training and strategy that incorporates creativity to arrive at practical solutions.

With a background in Film and TV as a makeup artist and DEI advisor for films and scripts, a background in literature, writing poerty and short stories, and being a senior Consultant of Diversity Equity and Inclusion with the Provincial Health Services Authority in BC, Kathleen Johnson is a powerful force who has the knowledge, the education and the skills to talk to us about DEI and the creative culture in corporate.

Tune in, learn something new and don't stay out of trouble!

Stay in Touch with Kathleen

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/kmjdiversity?trk=public_post_feed-actor-name

https://www.instagram.com/the_kreactivator/

https://www.youtube.com/@thekreactivators/videos

For more info on Kathleen and her work: https://www.kreativculturestrategies.com/

 

Scripts:

There's a long documented history of human rights issues.

The weirdos in the workplace are usually the most, some of the most open-minded, you know, willing to accept feedback sort of people.

There's a lot of ways where employers have realized, oh, this is actually, this is actually a benefit.

I can't fix what I don't know.

You will be supported. You'll be understood. I think corporate culture has a long way to go in that regard.

Welcome to Weirdos in the Workplace, a podcast that celebrates authenticity, transparency, passion, and purpose in our world of work. And I'm really excited to have Kathleen Johnson with me here today. Hello, Kathleen. Hello. Thank you for being on the podcast. This is awesome. I'm really excited about that. Thank you. Thank you so much. being on the podcast. This is awesome. Really excited.

Thank you.

Thank you so much. So I'll tell you a little bit about Kathleen. Kathleen is the CEO of Creative Culture Strategies, and she provides diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism training to organizations across Canada. Kathleen partners with her clients to deliver heart-centered diversity training and strategy that incorporates creativity to arrive at practical solutions. And for those of you who are watching us on YouTube or, you know, Facebook or LinkedIn or whatever, and we can, you can see our background, you can see it clearly spelled there, but of course we will have it in the show notes as well. Awesome. Welcome to the show, Kathleen.

Thank you so much. I'm really happy to be here. And we've had these discussions before so it just feels like we're having a carrying our discussion onto YouTube.

Exactly we're finally just pressing record sometimes I wish we could just like press record on our conversations every now and then I'm like oh that would have been perfect on the podcast. Yeah I'm just getting into podcasting as well. And it's like, you get that podcast brain where you're like, I want to, I want to capture this. Yeah. Like that was such a good video clip. Dang. How can I remember this? For folks who haven't met Kathleen before, Kathleen is also a very proud humanist as am I. And we actually met, well, kind of because I sort of like stalked her slash introduced myself after listening to you speak Kathleen after you were doing a