In Episode 71, Minda Harts, Speaker & Author at Memo LLC, joins us to discuss the trauma that women of color experience in the workplace, the role allies can play in the healing process, and how managers can reduce workplace trauma.

About Minda Harts (she/her)

Minda Harts is the CEO of The Memo LLC and an award-winning and best-selling author of The Memo: What Women of Color Need To Know To Secure A Seat At The Table and Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace.

Minda is a Professor at NYU Wagner and hosts a live weekly podcast called Secure The Seat. In 2020, Minda was named the #1 Top Voice for Equity in the workplace by Linkedin.

She is an Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar and has been featured on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Fast Company, The NY Times, and Time Magazine. Minda frequently speaks at companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Nike, and Bloomberg on topics such as Managing Diverse Teams, Courageous Leadership, and Advancing women of color in the workplace.


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Production Team

Creator & Host: Melinda Briana Epler
Finance & Operations: Renzo Santos
Marketing Communications Coordinator: Christina Swindlehurst Chan
Creative Director @ Podcast Rocket: Rob Scheerbarth 


[Image description: Leading With Empathy & Allyship promo with the Change Catalyst logo; a photo of Minda Harts, a Black woman with long brown hair, gold necklaces, and a black top with a tanned overcoat, along with her grey book cover that has a darkened profile of a person’s face and pink writing over it that says: “Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace”; and a photo of host Melinda Briana Epler, a White woman with red hair, glasses, and an orange shirt holding a white mug behind a laptop.]

How To Heal From Racial Trauma In The Workplace With Minda Harts

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