Jonamay Lambert & Associates

As a  Founding Partner, I invite you to r ead the latest blog from Spectra Diversity, www.spectradiversity.com.  It would seem we don’t have much to celebrate this August 26, which aims to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the 19 th Amendment prohibiting the states and federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the U.S. on the basis of sex. This Women’s Equality Day it is becoming evident how the more things change, the more they tend to stay the same; and in 2018, it would seem, things also took a step back. Financial Disparity for Women In Spring of 2017, President Trump called for a radical change as he signed executive bills reversing the  Fair Pay and Safe Workplace order.  Obama placed this legislative order in 2014. The Fair Pay and Safe Workplace order mandated that businesses had to report a step-by-step “wage statement” of their earnings to the Department of Labor. This order also raised the  minimum wage  an...

We know a corporate speechwriter who refuses to open a speech with a joke. He explains, “Three things can happen when you tell a joke in a speech, and two of them are bad: the audience laughs; no one laughs, or the joke offends the listeners, and you’ve lost all hope of coming across as credible.”  Expert speakers are thorough in researching their audiences, because of the danger of offending people. Sloppy research often results in offensive mistakes. Former Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann kicked off her presidential campaign in her hometown, Waterloo, Minnesota. She said “John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That’s the kind of spirit that I have, too.” Unfortunately, Waterloo’s was not the actor but the serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Cultural illiteracy is also a common cause. Many people have regretted the use of a wrong word or making rude remarks. This ignorance is more of a problem when it comes to sexual harassment.  There are differences in opinion based on mu...