What do creativity and culture have in common? You will leave this insightful conversation with Genein with plenty of intersections and gems that will help you unlock the biggest gem -- YOU! Join as we sit with Genein Letford, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of CAFFE Strategies, and enjoy her perspectives on sustainable organizational equity and inclusion. Let's talk about innovation and how all her work applies to women in tech. She is a creative force and shares her vision that can make us all better. Join us for the conversation and let's embrace our uniqueness in a new way together.

If you can't produce the idea in your mind, it is harder to do in your hand. -Genein Letford

Genein Letford is a national thought leader and creator of the concept of ‘Intercultural Creativity™’. She is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of CAFFE Strategies, LLC which trains C-Suite executives and employees to create sustainable organizational equity and inclusion strategies while unleashing their innovative thinking for themselves and in their businesses. Her 7 Gems of Intercultural Creativity is a leading framework that encourages corporations in their diversity and inclusion development while developing critical cognitive tools for creative thinking. You can tell already that this episode got HOT!

Her passion is to free people to become their creative selves, so step into your power and tune into this amazing conversation. She points out that creativity is a skill that is not reserved for artists. In the world of tech, we can all benefit from cultures inside and outside of work that honor creative thinking. This is a foundation of her intercultural creativity message and the 7 gems.

It’s an important thing to remember that your mind has to get there before you do. Therefore, the first step is to think you can. Everything starts with imagination. Then, we need to make time to do just that….think.

We discuss empathy and how we are born with an empathic nature. In fact, just be reaching out to people and connecting, you are building empathy. We need this more in leadership and tech as we all are navigating difficult times and an ongoing pandemic.

Do you give your people enough time to think?
What is your unique perspective that you bring to your role?
Are you shifting your perspective or are people shifting to you?

Listen to the gems in the episode yourself, but here are the 'gems' we gathered from our time with Genein:
💎Creativity is a skill we all need
💎Building cultural competence is key
💎Leadership will need to understand the role of empathy to lead and adapt
💎The Tech world needs us to have intellectual curiosity

Most of all, please remember that each of you, every tech diva, is a unique gem. We celebrate your beauty for all you are.

Connect with Genein and keep the conversation going:
CAFFE Strategies Website and links to all her social: https://caffestrategies.com/
Genein Letford Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genein-letford-m-ed-b17b9973/

Connect to some of the wonderful humans mentioned in the episode to learn more:
Dr. Alison Hortsmeyer https://www.dralisonh.com/
Dr. Michael Platt https://www.aiirconsulting.com/team-effectiveness-begins-with-a-balanced-breakfast/
Hang Black https://www.techdivasuccess.com/tech-diva-success-podcast-blog/hang-black
Dr. Timothy Clark https://www.leaderfactor.com/timothy-r-clark