In HRchat 218 consider how organizations and individuals can best chart a path towards diversity, equity and inclusion in meaningful and world-changing ways.
Our guest is Bobby Humes, Director of Human Resources at the City of Seattle and speaker at the Oct 28th InnovateWork West Coast event.
Listen to the interview to hear Bobby’s answers to these questions:
- You and your team support 10,000+ employees across 36 City departments in the greater Seattle area by providing HR products and services. What does that entail and what are some of the challenges?
- Your session at InnovateWork is called ‘Bridging Equity: DEI and The Collective Benefit of Belonging’. Can you offer an overview and, as part of that, spell out why DEI is so important in our current context and beyond?
- Why do you believe that DEI programs often fail to make workplaces better for people of color?
Bobby is an HR strategist and organizational change leader with extensive training and experience in HR project management, employee and labor relations, full life-cycle talent management, employee training, and leadership development and coaching. In this role, Bobby and his team support over 10,000 employees across 36 City departments in the greater Seattle area by providing HR products and services.
He values inclusion and equity and believes that it is the work of all people to remove institutional and structural racism from the workplace. He believes that when we focus on removing racial injustice, the workplace becomes better for all people and organizations truly live out their missions and values.