Image generated through AI Evelina Silveira, President, Diversity at Work Communications Training I was 26 years old, with almost no leadership training or experience, when I was promoted to interim executive director of a men’s counselling agency more than 30 years ago. It was a turbulent time: women’s agencies were calling for us to be shut down, funding was uncertain, and I inherited a deficit. I managed the operational side well enough, but the people side was overwhelmin

Evelina Silveira Two women are speaking, and a man is sitting in the background at a drafting table. In the realm of DEI, how frequently have you encountered discussions about the most common form of workplace inequity – nepotism?   Yet, it happens more often than you think. Remember that time you prepared for weeks for an interview, received glowing reports from your immediate supervisors, and were encouraged to apply for an internal posting? You were so sure you were going

Evelina Silveira Photo credit: ESilveira A month ago, I had one of my lifetime dreams fulfilled – I visited my parents' homeland, Flores,...

Written by: Evelina Silveira Standing amidst my collection, a testament to my brief foray into anthropology is Bronislaw Malinowski's The Sexual Life of Savages . Even my closest friends have never asked me about this book, but the odd repairman tries to pretend they did not see it. No, I am not a pervert or a racist, for that matter, but I was a student of anthropology in the 90s when the ethnographic classic became required reading for reasons academics today would find ab