Bullying: Remedies From the School Yard to the C-Suite
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What is bullying? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, bullying means the abuse and mistreatment of someone vulnerable by someone stronger, more powerful, etc. Bullying is not simply an early childhood phase that children grow out of as they learn the differences between right and wrong. Bullying shows its presence in all facets of adult society, including the workplace. In some instances, bullying may look the same in schools as it does in the workplace. In other instances, bullying in the workplace takes on more sophisticated, subtle forms. Yet, there is good news: these bullying behaviors can be broken; the cycle of bullying can be stopped. Human beings have the power to change their behavior individually as well as collectively and create an anti-bullying culture.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand and recognize the different forms of bullying.
- Understand the parallels between bullying in school and bullying in the workplace.
- Learn interventions and actions to curb bullying behaviors.
- Learn about the various forms of allyship and encourage a culture of acceptance and belonging.
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Joy Toney
Joy Toney serves as a Senior Program Consultant for AIM for Change, LLC. Joy’s career successes are mapped over 20+ years professional experience in non-profit, consumer services, government contracting, and transportation and distribution. Her work experience spectrum includes both people leader and individual contributor roles at ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Accredo Health, FedEx Express, Johnson & Johnson, and CAS Incorporated. Joy enjoys utilizing her skills in process and performance improvement, software development, information security, quality assurance, project management, talent management, organizational change management, and justice/equity/diversity/inclusion awareness. She is a CISSP, CCA, CBAP, CTFL, CSM, CSPO, ITIL4, and Prosci Change Management certified as well as Brightline's Organizational Transformation micro-credentials (OTF, OTO, OTI), and soon-to-be PMP (Fall 2023) and SHRM-CP (Spring 2024). Joy has served as an advisor to local non-profit boards such as Extreme Dreams USA, OUTMemphis, the International Institute of Business Analysis – Greater Memphis Chapter, and the PMI Memphis Chapter (Project Management Institute).
Joy holds a MBA with a concentration in Information Systems from the University of Memphis, and a Bachelor’s degrees in Accounting and Information Systems, both from the University of Alabama at Huntsville. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Business Administration focusing on organizational behavior in tech spaces.
Tawana Gardner
Tawana Gardner is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt with a focus on minimizing process pain points to maximize results. She began her career as an Industrial Engineer. Shortly after earning both a Lean certification and a Six Sigma Black Belt certification, she implemented many successful continuous improvement projects. She eventually accepted a new opportunity as a project manager implementing capital projects. There she spent four years before moving on to further her career in manufacturing ultimately landing an opportunity as a consultant. She has implemented proven management operating systems, many continuous improvement initiatives, training in management and continuous improvement. She has led, designed, and implemented many continuous improvement projects in addition to teaching six sigma principles to yellow belt, green belt, and black belt candidates. She has published several articles including ” Time to Stop.” Quality Progress Magazine (ASQ), July 2022, pgs. 30-35.
Tawana Gardner is currently serving as principal consultant at AIM for Change, LLC. AIM helps business improve their bottom line by teaching lean concepts to reduce lean waste.