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When Code-Switching Becomes Identity Fragmentation

I am the only Black person on our leadership team and I notice I speak differently, laugh differently, even dress differently in these meetings than I do anywhere else in my life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The psychological cost of assimilation is fragmenting your sense of authentic self in professional spaces.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Institutional ethics and organizational integrity?”

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