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The First-Time Manager: DEI

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

With The First-Time Manager: DEI, create a safe, inclusive, and productive space for your team. Alida Miranda-Wolff has worked with hundreds of organizations to help them create cultures of belonging and successful DEI initiatives, which means she knows the common pitfalls to avoid and action items required to make DEI work. Read her latest practical guide, to develop the mindset and actions required for new managers to build inclusive teams.

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Master the the mindset and actions required to build an inclusive and effective team.

Being an inclusive manager boils down to finding ways to balance power and love day-to-day. When do we prioritize the needs of an individual employee over that of the whole team? When do we hold firm that what the team needs is more important than what the individual wants? How do we ensure that we uphold one person’s boundaries without compromising another’s? How do we live up to the promises we make to ourselves and to each other, all while driving results and hitting our earnings targets? Alida Miranda-Wolff has worked with hundreds of organizations to help them create cultures of belonging and successful DEI initiatives, which means she knows the common pitfalls to avoid and action items required to make DEI work. In this practical guide, she shares both the mindset and actions required for new managers to build inclusive teams. This one-of-a-kind guide will:
  • Help you define your inclusive management style.
  • Provide practical guidance on how to create a healthy culture on your teams through equitable practices.
  • Teach you the basics of inclusive language.
  • Offer guidance on how to give and receive feedback.
  • Help you manage identity-based conflict.
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Someone famous once said, “middle management is where DEI goes to die,” but no more! Alida has written THE book to help middle managers operationalize and scale their organization’s DEI efforts. Clear, concise, practical, and actionable, this book will help any manager, from the newest to the most seasoned!
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Minal BopaiahAward-winning author of Equity and founder of Brevity & Wit
In The First-Time Manager: DEI, Alida Miranda-Wolff lays out the case for embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion as a foundational component for strong management. This book provides insightful and practical guidance on how to build inclusive and equitable team cultures, and is a must-read for managers at any stage of their career, with tips and reflections that will inspire deep self-reflection and the confidence to apply new ways of ensuring all employees can thrive in their workplace.
Maria MourakianAuthor of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for Trainers: Fostering DEI in the Workplace and host of the Culture Stew podcast
In our hectic workplaces with competing priorities, many corporations don’t invest the resources required to train first time managers to build inclusive teams which are critical to the long term sustainable success of every organization. Alida Miranda-Wolff shares her expertise with first time managers who desire to build world class teams which will create a culture of belonging, improve innovation, improve morale and accelerate business outcomes.
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Shelmina AbjiAuthor of Show Your Worth
DEI is not an annual training event, but a holistic approach to valuing every team member. It's recognizing each individual's uniqueness. Alida Miranda-Wolff has done an excellent job of explaining how DEI fits into every manager's role and guiding them on how to incorporate it into their management practices.
Cornelia Gamlem
Cornelia GamlemAuthor of The Big Book of HR and The Decisive Manager

Cultures of Belonging

Building Inclusive Organizations That Last

Learn to create the conditions for everyone to thrive at work through clear, actionable steps for you to build new diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) into your organization. By infusing equitable and inclusive values, experiences, and perspectives into your organizational culture, give your employees what they need to be their best selves and do their best work.

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Bypass the processes and communication styles that make change impossible in so many other organizations; access these practical tools and ideas for increasing DEIB in your organization.

Filled with actionable advice Alida Miranda-Wolff learned through her own experiences both in organizations that didn’t invest in inclusion and as an expert consultant to 100+ companies in the years following, this roadmap helps Leaders:

  • Learn why creating an environment where everyone feels belonging is the new barometer for employee engagement.
  • Develop an understanding of the key terms around DEIB and why they matter.
  • Assess where your organization is today.
  • Define and take the small steps that build new muscle memory around DEIB into your organizational culture.
  • Increase employee engagement, collaboration, innovation, communication, and sense of belonging.
  • Build confidence in how to solve future DEIB-related challenges.
  • Get buy-in from colleagues (and even resisters) who can clearly see how to move forward and why.

Overcome any limiting work environment and build all new processes and communication priorities that allow your employees to be a part of something greater than themselves while your organization learns to value and embrace the unique experiences and perspective that each employee brings.

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So much of the conversation around diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging is about the problems; with Cultures of Belonging, Alida Miranda- Wolff brings together engaging personal anecdotes and spot-on advice on how to make realistic – and yet, still radical – changes that get at the heart of practical solutions. A must-read if you are looking for the ultimate playbook to accelerate -qDEIB at work.
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Dr. Randal PinkettChairman and CEO, BCT Partners
Human connection and community are basic human needs. Unfortunately, our organizations don't always invest in meeting these needs for underrepresented groups. With Cultures of Belonging, Alida Miranda-Wolff unlocks how we can do better for everyone to create deeper and better relationships at work.
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David SiegelCEO of Meetup
Cultures of Belonging is a comprehensive and compassionate guide to creating meaningful change within organizations. Whether you are a leader who isn't sure where to start or a practitioner looking to expand your impact, this book will help you take a tangible next step towards a more inclusive future.
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Taylor Elyse MorrisonFounder of Inner Workout and the host of the Be School Podcast
In Cultures of Belonging, Alida Miranda-Wolff breaks open how to take these values and beliefs around belonging so many of us have and turn them into regular, repeatable, and automatic behaviors. A must-read for anyone trying to change their organization for the better. Valuable and thoughtful!
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Andrew GelwicksAuthor of The Queer Advantage
The Poetry Foundation has been forever changed by following the prescriptions laid out in 'Cultures of Belonging'. It is a highly thoughtful and informative guide for assessment, planning and action to achieve DEIB goals at every level."
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Michelle BoonePresident, The Poetry Foundation
Miranda-Wolff’s generous, thoughtful book conveys the urgency of meeting people where they are if we want to create meaningful change. She offers a realistic roadmap for workplaces to shift toward a true culture of belonging, while holding space for the ways in which the journey may not always be a straightforward one. The nuanced approaches, concrete action steps, and clarifying examples she shares make Cultures of Belonging a truly invaluable guide for a broad range of organizations.
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Emily LadauActivist and author of Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
Fostering true belonging isn’t optional any more. It’s the work all modern leaders must take on. Cultures of Belonging: Building Inclusive Organizations That Last is an indispensable guide written by a true expert in the field. It is the rare book that is profound and practical, thoughtful and actionable. If you want to go beyond talk and make meaningful change in your organization, this book is required reading.
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Michael WinnickFounder & CEO of dscout
I highly recommend this book! It's unique in that it delves deep into specific organizational areas (i.e. recruiting, onboarding, retention, promotion, and protection) where there are opportunities to build belonging. The incorporation of case studies not only makes the concepts accessible but they also help the reader identify and anticipate how to navigate roadblocks along the way. A great read for organizations who want to learn what a culture of belonging is, how to strategize, and how to bring all of the concepts to life.
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LaTonya WilkinsBest Selling Author of Leading Below the Surface, Credentialed Executive + Team Coach, Founder + CEO of The Change Coaches
Miranda-Wolff provides a valuable framework on how organizations can seriously approach diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. For leaders who believe that the strength of any business is driven by diversity and are willing to do the tough but necessary work, this book walks them through the steps needed to drive real progress.
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Dan FutrellCEO of the Pat Tillman Foundation
Now more than ever, leaders need to make 'belonging' central to their organization, but they need help and guidance on that journey. Cultures of Belonging is the blueprint and the roadmap to making change possible.
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Colleen D. EganPresident & CEO of the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition

Media Bio

Alida Miranda-Wolff is a diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) practitioner committed to teaching love and cultivating belonging. She is an Amazon-bestselling author of two books with HarperCollins Leadership, Cultures of Belonging: Building Inclusive Organizations That Last (February 2022) and The First-Time Manager: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (May 2024). She is the founder and CEO of Ethos, a full-service DEIB and employee advocacy firm, which serves hundreds of clients across the world. She hosts Care Work with Alida Miranda-Wolff, a podcast about what it means to offer care for a living.

In 2021, Alida received The University of Chicago’s Early Career Achievement Award. She is a graduate of The University of Chicago and holds certificates from the School of the Art Institute (graphic design) and Georgetown University (DEI). She lives in Chicago with her partner, toddler, rabbits, and cats. When she’s not working, reading, writing, or parenting, Alida is wild gardening, interior designing, and falling down research rabbit holes.

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