Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd

HR POW, DEI critic, devout skeptic humanist, sketch-noter, astronomer, meteorologist, linguist, athlete, strategist, musician, Afro Latino Euro Native OG NUF

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

Removing the scales from the racial equity lens (as well as other D&I optics) for cross-cultural responsiveness and anti-discrimination for all dimensions of diversity.

Contact me for the Cross-Cultural Equity Lens
(C-CEL™) tool, consultation & facilitation playbook.

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

Every courtesy interview asks a discourteous, if not insulting, question.

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

Power thumbs down clap back.

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

Can you be a rebel in a suit?

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

Job candidate feedback: You're too much a mutt to be hired.

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

DINO (Diversity In Name Only) dominates DEI as many of its dimensions are NIMBY.

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

If today you lick your wounds, then tomorrow kick ass back.

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

Employee surveys and listening sessions air but not wash dirty laundry.

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

Murphy's Law of business always gets in the way of Robert's Rules of Order.

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

Does your ensemble resemble my assemble?

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

Complexion disguises how we are all related.

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

You may not consider me your brother, but I'm most certainly your distant cousin.

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

About 6 percent of Mbuti DNA comes from Eurasians, the new study finds. West Africa’s Yoruba carry a 7% genetic contribution from Eurasians. That figure reaches 18.5% in South African groups and as high as 47% in East African populations. #WeAllAreMixed https://t.co/RNXuAfYRa9

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

Do you shelter or shatter the status quo?

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

DEI is more reel than real.

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

There are no pure races biologically. We are all mixed from racial transmigration, miscegenation, & reverse migration. We all come from African, Asian & Caucasian intersectional and intergenerational intercourse. Mixed heritage is ancient, vintage and contemporary with all of us.

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

How can I be a fan of a movement like DEI that seeks to remove me despite my BIPOCity?

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

DEI hires and promotes the status quo and the kyriarchy (discrimination, bias, othering et al) that comes with it.

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

If you're not DEI dissident, then you're DEI polar opposite adherent.

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

DEI suffers from ambiguous complexion disorientation.

[Larry Howlett, EdD, MPA, MSMOB, MSEd @LHowlettODPrism]

What if God is atheist?