I'm sorry, this imported into my Kindle with the formatting all off, and I couldn't read the end of most sentences. I will not be able to read this until I decide to purchase it myself or get it from the library.

Such an incredibly important read, especially right now in our divisive country. I have recommended this book to almost every friend I know who is working on being an ally. Loved every minute of it!

I run a diversity, inclusion, and equity committee at work so I was very excited to read this book. I liked that it addressed workplaces specifically and offered a lot of great ideas on actionable changes to make.

Thank you to NetGalley and the MIT Press for the advanced copy of Inclusion on Purpose and the opportunity to share a review voluntarily.

This is an amazing book and resource! I found so many helpful tools to use and build skills around with hiring, giving feedback and creating inclusive work environments. This is so well written and the stories are captivating which I find is the best way to learn. I was busy turning the page and gleaming so many useful ideas and realizations about my own thoughts and behaviors. I recommend this to all managers and people committed to inclusive, expansive environments.

This book is phenomenal! A very good overview of what has led us tot he work culture we have today (ie cis, straight white men), how to better serve women of color (and thus all folks with marginalized identities), how to prepare for the future. As a manager who identifies as a cis, white queer woman, I found myself taking so many notes and feeling like I can work with my colleagues (both men and women of color) to support them in our current work culture and built out our small organization to be even more inclusive and equitable. The author did an amazing job of outlining the very real problems and struggles that marginalized people face, especially women of color, and the very workable ways that all job environments can better and best support our colleagues. I cannot recommend this book enough!!

The intentional and purposeful book on inclusion we all needed. This book centers WOC, a critical narrative as we seek to build DEI in the workplace. My only wish is that the advice was more intersectional - while WOC sit at the intersection of race and gender, that was about as deep as it went.

Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work by Ruchika Tulshyan. I think this book is a much-needed wake-up call specific to centering women of color in the work toward equity and justice in the workplace. As someone who also does this work professionally, the concepts were not new to me, but there were many helpful frames and orientations that - especially as such a readable and well-organized book - I think will continue to push this work forward and in new directions. I can imagine this book helping many leaders and managers, as well as DEI experts and consultants, hiring managers, and more. I'd actually love it to be required reading for all senior leaders and managers at my own work. Love the chapter layout - the "Key Reflections" at the end of each chapter not only summarize content, but ask key questions that would be perfect conversation starters to facilitators as well. And I love most of all the very direct, useful, and actionable suggestions throughout the book. Simple, yet brilliant, frameworks and orientations, prompts to use in conversation, ways to interrupt interrupters, etc. I think this will be well-received in the field and be a great addition to many bookshelves. Even though I already own many books on the topics of workplace inclusion, culture transformation, reducing bias, etc., I can see myself referencing this one many times.

Inclusion on Purpose is a good addition to the diversity, equity, and inclusion literature out there, if you're looking for something specific to the corporate world. This book adds to the discourse by being intentional about centering the experiences of women of color, and as a response to the "lean in" attitude that has been proposed as a tool for acquiring leadership/management positions. The beginning had be invested from the get-go, with a forward by Ijeoma Oluo (who has written a lot of antiracist nonfiction that I have selected for my work book club including So You Want to Talk about Race and Mediocre). It also goes hard into the problems posed by HR teams, which exist for the purpose of protection the company, not the workers (hey, that's what unions are for!).

This book dives into how we can be intentional about inclusion -- and it specifically calls on people with privilege in the workplace (white men/women) to use that power to fix the systemic and institutional racism that exists in our sphere. This is the first book I've read to tackle many of these issues in the shifting workplace dynamics of COVID-19, which has seen more women leave the workforce than ever before (disproportionally Black women) due to lack of access to childcare and needed flexibility. There are some great resources in here, including the "BRIDGE Framework" which is a good reminder for how to be open and willing to grow from mistakes. There are great questions at the end of the chapters that are good for internal reflection but also for discussion in a group that you work with.

Tulshyan really brings together a lot of topics that are ripe for training and development, from interrupting bias and exclusion when you see it to creating spaces that provide psychological safety for women of color. I know that we need a balance of books that help us contribute to a better working environment where everyone can be successful (outcomes can not be tied to identity), but I was also a little disappointed that this book didn't address the way in which corporate culture is probably not the answer to a more equitable work environment in general. Part of the drive of this book is that when we change who gets to hold and have power, we change those systems, which it's why these practices go beyond individual influence into changing policy and culture as well. COVID-19 has changed the way we think about work and in the midst of an unprecedented labor movement, I would love a companion piece on the power of organizing and sharing power in different ways.

Thanks to NetGalley for an early review copy, all opinions are my own, Definitely pick this one up to grow your understanding of supporting DEI within your workplace and put those skills to practice.

I found this to be a quick read. It contains a lot of great information but it doesn't drag and it isn't dull.

The focus is primarily on including women of color into all places of an organization.

I appreciated most the key reflections at the end of each chapter that require self reflection and develop action steps that be be put into place immediately or very soon in the day to day.