CEO Gena Cox Was Cavalier in Quitting a Job

<p>Show page:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.markgraban.com/mistake113">https://www.markgraban.com/mistake113</a></p> <p>My guest for Episode #113 of the <a href="http://myfavoritemistakepodcast.com/">My Favorite Mistake podcast</a> is <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/genacox/">Gena Cox, PhD PCC</a>, an industrial psychologist, executive coach, author, and speaker. She&nbsp;has advised corporate leaders for 20+ years how to build organizational cultures that support innovation, inclusion, and employee engagement.</p> <p>Gena earned a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of South Florida and is also the Founder/CEO of <a href="https://feelshuman.com/">Feels Human, Inc</a>. She has a book coming out in 2022 called <em>Leading Inclusion</em>.</p> <p>In today's episode, Gena shares her “favorite mistake” story about leaving a company in a way she thinks was “cavalier” — regretting that she couldn't recreate that same culture elsewhere. Sometimes, yon’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.</p> <p>We talk about that and other topics including:</p> <ul> <li>How did recognition of mistake reveal itself?</li> <li>Feels Human, Inc. — what is a “human first organization”</li> <li>Human first doesn’t mean human only?</li> <li>“Inclusive leadership matters” — Beyond being the right thing to do from a human perspective, what are the connections between D&amp;I to business results?</li> <li>Inclusion as a component of “effective leadership”</li> <li>Behaviors that are more inclusive?</li> <li>Diversity easier to measure than inclusion?</li> <li>Definition of inclusion?</li> <li>Blog post — “<a href="https://genacox.medium.com/why-are-you-always-talking-about-race-40884de1bd64?source=post_internal_links---------6----------------------------">Why are you always talking about race?</a>”</li> <li>The book — coming 2022, <em>Leading Inclusion</em></li> </ul> --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/favorite-mistake/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/favorite-mistake