First Step toward Inclusion: Learn How to Pronounce Names!

To achieve inclusion, we need to know how to constructively call out our differences. But what if you can’t even pronounce each others’ names?

Check out HearNames.com. Elizabeth Bojang created the site as part of an on-demand service for those who want to be able to address colleagues, clients or students by name correctly without having to be corrected first. Bojang believes that correctly pronouncing the name of someone who is used to having their name butchered helps make an immediate connection, which can be a big advantage in the classroom or the marketplace.

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About Andrés

Andrés Tapia is President of Diversity Best Practices, the preemininet diversity and inclusion thinktank and consultancy. Andrés also served as Hewitt’s Chief Diversity Officer and Emerging Workforce Solutions Leader for seven years, where he was responsible for leading the company’s diversity vision and strategies and for consulting with Hewitt's FORTUNE 500 clients. He is the author of The Inclusion Paradox: The Obama Era and the Transformation of Global Diversity. Find his bio here.

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One Response to “First Step toward Inclusion: Learn How to Pronounce Names!”
  1. Deanna says:

    Love it! My husband finally went from Eugenio (the Brazilian Portugues Ay-oh-ZHEN-ee-oh) to Geno–too many awful pronunciations!

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