Candidly Speaking with WtC

Join us as we visit with our partners and others around the web to have frank discussions about Equity and Empowerment. Together, we’re helping to spread the word and create brave spaces where we can all talk about systemic racism and what we can do to achieve true equality.

Podcasts

 

Women Leadership Nation Breaking Barriers

23: Nicole McKinney, Founder and President of WAKING THE unCONSCIOUS

In, 2019 Nicole founded and launched the Not for Profit WtC WAKING the unCONSCIOUS that has a core premise to focus a lens on both the systemic and relational dynamics of elements like Anti-Black/POC Racism and Unconscious Bias, specifically the Unpacking of Privilege and Marginalisation, allowing for critical examination and an understanding of intersectionality.

Nicole challenges us to think about how we want to be remembered, how we're going to make this world a better place, and how will we leave it better when we're no longer here. Her father's death was the impetus for her Courage Up moment where she chose to be silent and look around to really what she is passionate about.

Courage Up

Thriving on Discomfort with Nicole McKinney

Nicole (founder of WtC) challenges us to think about how we want to be remembered, how we’re going to make this world a better place, and how will we leave it better when we’re no longer here. Her father’s death was the impetus for her Courage Up moment where she chose to be silent and look around to really what she is...

In today's episode, we have serial entrepreneur and racial equality advocate, Nicole McKinney. At the top of Nicole's vast resume, is her non-profit organization, Waking the unConscious, where their mission is to encourage and create a greater understanding of societal differences created by Privilege and Marginalization and to continuously develop innovative initiatives that create sustainable behavioural and relational changes in individuals and organizations.

From Where I Sit with Ben Almond

Episode 41: Waking the unConscious with Nicole McKinney

WtC founder Nicole McKinney joins Ben Almond (Vice President of Canada Operations, Jacobs) to discuss issues of equality and systemic anti-black racism in the world and within corporate structures.

Videos

 
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Startup Life Live! with Ande Lyons

Courageous Conversations to Inspire True Equity and Diversity

Dissolving systemic racism, especially in the workplace, requires showing, not telling, individuals how to be open to other perspectives and create meaningful connections. Our guest, Nicole McKinney, shares her extraordinary background, beginning as a fashion designer and advertising/branding in fashion, to leading a design brand + culture design business for decades, and taking on the mantel of her father's work in 2019 to help dissolve racism in the workplace.

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HR rewired TV

DAY 75: Feminism — Wheres My Invite? How BIPOC Women Remain Excluded

The feminist movement was meant to be an interracial one yet somehow Black, Indigenous and people of colour women were left behind. Nicole joins in on this lively discussion about the challenges unique to BIPOC women.