How Those With Power and Privilege Can Help Others Advance

Tsedale Melaku, sociologist at The Graduate Center, City University
of New York, and David Smith, professor at the U.S. Naval War
College, have been looking at the ways people with the most power
in society and organizations can become better allies to those who
have less authority and influence. In the United States, that
typically means white men helping their female co-workers or
colleagues of color to advance. In an era when the push for gender
and racial equity is gaining momentum, Melaku and Smith join host
Alison Beard in a live taping that includes audience questions
about the right ways to call out microaggressions, hold senior
management to account, and use majority group privilege to help
those in the minority. Melaku and Smith are the coauthors, along
with Angie Beeman and Brad Johnson, of the HBR article "Be a Better
Ally."