{"id":4318,"date":"2021-05-30T13:20:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T17:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.totalengagementconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2021-05-31T09:06:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T13:06:27","slug":"a-diversity-book-truly-for-everyone-empowering-differences-by-ashley-t-brundage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.totalengagementconsulting.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/a-diversity-book-truly-for-everyone-empowering-differences-by-ashley-t-brundage\/","title":{"rendered":"A Diversity Book Truly for EVERYONE: \u201cEmpowering Differences\u201d by Ashley T Brundage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ashley T Brundage, author of “Empowering Differences.”<\/p><\/div>\n

As a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant and trainer, I continue to lead with the positive message that every single person is a valuable part of our diversity tapestry, and that diversity is not about setting one group against another, but about all of us being in this together.\u00a0 Yet so many people seem to fear diversity;<\/a><\/strong> that valuing and listening to people different from them will somehow make them \u201cless than.\u201d\u00a0 I simply don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n

And every single human being is comprised of their own unique combination of various diversity attributes.\u00a0 The term intersectionality<\/a><\/strong> was coined in 1989 by professor Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw to describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics \u201cintersect\u201d with one another and overlap.<\/p>\n

And now comes Ashley T Brundage\u2019s new book, \u201cEmpowering Differences\u201d where she explains how every single person should value every aspect of their diversity and leverage it for good.<\/p>\n

Ashley first tells her own story of coming out as transgender woman and moving out of parent\u2019s home at age 17 to be on her own.\u00a0 She took on multiple jobs and long hours to fully support herself and worked her way up to a Boston Market store manager.\u00a0 Ashley at a fairly young age did start a family and then embarked in her second career in banking, and quickly rose to become Vice President of Diversity at PNC Bank.\u00a0 In her remarkable journey, Ashley discovered the power of leveraging her various dimensions of diversity instead of viewing certain characteristics as negatives.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In her book, Ashley then provides the four ground rules for empowering differences:<\/p>\n