Let's Talk Ethics
I want to talk about setting goals. Whether you’re setting goals for your corporation (yearly goals), individual goals, parental goals for your children. Something I’ve learned since I was a little kid from my father was to sit down the 1st of each year and write down 5 goals. As a child I was kind […]
This week I want to talk about mentors. I do a lot of work with students, both at the college level and graduate level in business and law schools. I also work with young professionals in corporations and young attorneys. One thing I have learned in my life is the value of mentors and the […]
I was recently introduced to a movie by Will Smith called After Earth, essentially about the world ending. There’s a line in the movie that Will Smith says that says “danger is real but fear is a choice.” This statement, if we tell ourselves when we face fear, we are all going to face these […]
I want to talk about something that I think is really powerful. It’s about empathy. There’s this concept of “are you going to choose to protect someone else, other people, or are you going to choose to protect yourself; your ego.” I think ego is this really hard concept that I know as a child, […]
Do you share your shame? Some of you have maybe heard me share my story about my grandfather, Banarsi Das Saraf who was a freedom fighter during the Quit movement in India. He fought alongside Mahatma Gandhi against the British, trying to get back India’s independence. He didn’t know if he was going to be […]
I recently received a question about 3rd party risk and vendor risk. Many of you work for large corporations doing business in many different countries with different cultures and laws. There are a lot of issues with vetting vendors so that they are passing the cultural tests and ethics tests. How do we know that […]
I want to talk about what is Accountability? I had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion with a gentleman named Sam Silverstein at Converge forum. He was speaking on and has been speaking on for many years, accountability. I learned some interesting things. I pride myself on having had taken accountability at a […]
I recently participated in the annual panel discussion of the Explorers conference. With me was Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the wife of former representative Elijah Cummings. She was amazing, we all had a really important and relevant conversation of ethics and DE&I, diversity, ethics and inclusion policies with organizations, institutions, universities, and within government. We talked […]
I am dedicating this blog to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Justice Ginsburg was a trailblazer. Though she was small, she is a giant for all of us. Women especially, there are so many aspects of our lives that we don’t even realize until we actually paid attention that Justice Ginsburg is not only […]
In Miami we have these things called mangroves and near my house there is this very complicated and complex mangrove. An entire park essentially where there are some roads and a beach area and the marina. Mangroves have a very complicated root system. What I found fascinating about mangroves is that we as individuals can […]