Dr. Shindale Seale: The Root Cause

Have you ever wondered where your perspectives come from?

Throughout your lifetime, various people have taught you your current belief system. In order to find the root cause of a belief, you need to keep asking yourself why until the root appears.

Dr. Shindale Seale focuses on finding the root cause to create transformational education.

Dr. Shindale Seale is a cultural equity and diversity strategist who employs leadership and performance optimization concepts to help entrepreneurs, corporate and academic stakeholders, and Diversity & Inclusion professionals identify and reach their organizational culture goals.

For over two decades, Dr. Seale served in various leadership and training roles and sectors, including the corporate environment, academia, and the non-profit arena. Her work has focused on business performance optimization, staff development, and creating sustainable and equitable working environments. Her research and consulting on creating equitable solutions in gender, race, age, and ability matters has led to her being a sought-after subject matter expert and speaker.

In addition to her consulting services, Dr. Seale is the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Program Chair at the University of California Santa Cruz - Silicon Valley Extension, where she also develops and teaches courses on Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in the workplace and academia. Dr. Seale is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Redlands, where she teaches Leadership, Organizational Change, and Business Communication.

Dr. Seale holds a Doctor of Education degree in Organizational Change and Leadership and a Master of Education degree, both from the University of Southern California (USC). She also earned her Bachelor of Arts with a focus on Language and Linguistics from California State University at Dominguez Hills (CSUDH).

In this episode, Dr. Seale gets to the root of injustice issues in our world today.

Listen to this episode and learn about:

• Getting to the root cause (3:22)
• The power of aha moments (6:43)
• Who DEI training is really for (9:23)
• Creating a sense of urgency (13:25)
• A massive lack of education around our origins (17:52)
• What people need to hear about racial healing (21:25)
• Are these conversations allowed? (24:51)
• How to adjust our perspectives (33:48)
• Focusing on what went right versus wrong (40:43)
• Dr. Seale's barista name (47:42)

Links

• Connect with Dr. Seale on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/drshindale
• Grateful Processing of Unpleasant Memories - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Philip-Watkins/publication/233193951_Taking_care_of_business_Grateful_processing_of_unpleasant_memories/links/00b7d532b352f4b726000000/Taking-care-of-business-Grateful-processing-of-unpleasant-memories.pdf
• It Didn't Start with You - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013D6640M/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
• Rachel Yehuda's work - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=k7C9PhkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
• Dr. Seale's website - https://seadecc.com