Diversity, Inclusion, and Consciousness
Presenter:
Jeffon Seely
Time:
15:49
Summary
Jeffon asks the important question, "Do we actually care about the well-being of others that we share the planet with?" He shares three elements that are essential for us as human beings to begin to embrace that will allow us to create a future and a world that works for everyone. Jeffon Seely is a senior consultant, transformational speaker, and workshop facilitator. Mr. Seely is a highly recognized leading resource in the field of Diversity and Inclusion, Millennials, Mindfulness, and Leadership. Although rather young, a Millennial, he has had his own consulting firm for more than 10 years, specializing in programs involving mindfulness, meditation and the evolving role of Millennials and the 2020 Generation. He has assisted major corporations, non-profit organizations, and government and academic institutions with innovative strategies to integrate mindfulness and the evolving generations into management and leadership roles. Mr. Seely has facilitated diversity, inclusion, empowerment, mindfulness, meditation, generations, and engagement training courses to all levels of organizations across several industries. He also presents transformational speeches to audiences through keynotes, leadership seminars, retreats and open forums.
Transcript
Do we as human beings actually care about one another?
Think about that for a moment.
I'm not just talking about your small little communities or neighborhoods or churches or even your home. But as humans, do we actually care about the well being of the people who we share this planet with? And I ask that question, first and foremost, because it's important, and secondly, because today, I would like to share three elements with you, three elements that I believe are absolutely essential for us as human beings to begin to embrace that will allow us to create a future and a world that works for everybody. The three areas that I would like to focus on today are diversity, inclusion and human compatibility. Now I believe that diversity is the most important phenomenon of the 21st century. And why do I say this? Because diversity has the potential to permanently resolve the conflicts and challenges that we experience as it relates to the differences we see in people, cultures, religions and even political philosophy. So as a result, we define diversity as the capacity to compatibly reconcile differences which have the potential to create conflict, prevent equitable opportunity in the workplace and in the society, and also the source of national and global crises. So just think about it for more for a minute. Isn't it fascinating the way in which differences have fueled so many of the conflicts and problems that we experience, whether in our life or from a global level, differences which has brought about conflicts as large as wars, because two different political philosophies are clashing against each other, different religious beliefs clashing against each other.