The Humanity Practice Weekly: Special Edition: Proud, Not Perfect — and Pronouns
12 days ago • 2 min readI live by a simple motto: be proud, not perfect. Since January, I’ve been building The Humanity Practice to help us operationalize humanity at work — at a moment when we really need to. I chose Pronouns at Work as our first paid product on purpose. Not because every Skill Builder will be about inclusion, but because I couldn’t ignore our roots, and I couldn’t ignore Pride Month. Here’s what I believe: pronouns at work were never a political issue — they’re a communication practice. A business...
READ POSTThe Humanity Practice Weekly: Practice Note #2: The Goodwill Tax, Breaking News, and a Free Gift
26 days ago • 4 min readThe Goodwill Tax, Breaking News, and a Free Gift The first Skill Builder kit just dropped. And I'm giving you this $1,500 gift, free. Today, for the first time, The Humanity Practice has a product in the world. Its name is Build Your Organization's Humanity Practice. And it just went live. I have been waiting to write that sentence for a long time. A Skill Builder kit is a ready-to-run training system that takes any internal leader from "we need to do this" through alignment, delivery, and...
READ POSTThe Humanity Practice Weekly: Practice Note #1: The Four-Way Tension
about 1 month ago • 4 min readThe Humanity Practice Weekly — Change Your Workplace One Story, One Conversation, One Action at a Time. If you've been reading these for a while, I appreciate you. Stay with me — the shape is changing, the work isn't. And if it lands, share it with one person who needs it. I'm building The Humanity Practice in front of you. Every week I'll teach you a practice — and every week I'll go deeper on what I'm learning as I build this thing in real time. The wins. The drops. The things I changed my...
READ POSTThe Humanity Practice Weekly: Human Hibernation (The Finale) - Three things are changing. All three part of the same work.
about 1 month ago • 8 min readStanding in the moment. Rocki Howard and Esther Maria Swaty at Talint and Tiaras What's Changing, What I'm Building, and Why Now The final edition of a 4-part series. I told you last time something was changing. Here it is. Before I tell you what changed, let me tell you what this was If you've walked with me through this series, you know it didn't start as an announcement. It started in hibernation. In Part 1, I named the thing I'd been avoiding — that I was exhausted in a way no vacation...
READ POSTThe Humanity Practice Weekly: Human Hibernation (Part 3) - I Didn't Need Better Boundaries. I Needed a Practice.
2 months ago • 6 min readThe Humanity Practice Weekly: Human Hibernation (Part 3) I Didn't Need Better Boundaries. I Needed a Practice. A 4-Part Series In Part 1, I said something out loud that I hadn't fully processed yet: "I'm not living. I don't even have a life." In Part 2, I traced that feeling back to its root — a survival belief that had quietly built an operating system I was no longer thriving inside of. This is what happened when I decided to stop surviving inside that system and start redesigning it. The...
READ POSTThe Humanity Practice Weekly: Human Hibernation (Part 2) - When the Belief That Saved Me Started Running My Life
3 months ago • 4 min readThe Humanity Practice Weekly: Human Hibernation (Part 2) A 4-Part Series Not long ago, I said something out loud to my husband that surprised even me. "I’m not living. I don’t even have a life." The moment the words left my mouth, I knew they were true. From the outside, everything looked successful. The work was growing. Opportunities were expanding. I was providing well for my family. But inside that success, something had gone quietly wrong in the way I was living and working. Not long...
READ POSTThe Humanity Practice Weekly: Year-End Reflections: The Pivot, the Practice, and Five Truths We’re Carrying Forward
5 months ago • 2 min readThe Humanity Practice Weekly: This year was tough. Not abstract tough. Real-life, show-up-anyway tough. The world of work shifted. Expectations collided. DEI was weaponized, and it wasn’t about slogans—it was about survival. Many of us found ourselves navigating impossible tension: protecting our businesses while trying to protect our people. In the middle of all of that, I made a purposeful pivot. This year made one thing clear: forward momentum wasn’t going to come from doing more of the...
READ POSTHumanity Practice Weekly: Our Black Friday Reveal: The Humanity Practice Challenge Winners
6 months ago • 2 min readThe Humanity Practice Weekly: Gratitude, Practice, and Progress Change Your Workplace One Story, One Conversation, One Action at a Time Workplaces don’t change because we talk about change. They change because people practice it in small, consistent ways that add up to something bigger. Every Friday, The Humanity Practice Weekly brings you: 3 simple actions you can try right now to make your workplace more human, inclusive, and high-performing Go Deeper resources — a blog, a free guide, to...
READ POSTThe Humanity Practice Weekly: Talent, Tiaras & Tender Moments
6 months ago • 6 min readThe Humanity Practice Weekly: Change Your Workplace One Story, One Conversation, One Action at a Time Workplaces don’t change because we talk about change. They change because people practice it, in small, consistent ways that add up to something bigger. Every Friday, The Humanity Practice Weekly brings you: 3 simple actions you can try right now to make your workplace more human, inclusive, and high-performing Free resources that help you build your Humanity Practice A Humanity Practitioner...
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