Compassionate HR

In the previous article, I dived into the reality of being an LGBTQIA+ member of the workforce from a personal perspective. Of finally dropping those masks within a workplace that goes beyond performative acceptance, and why that is so important to vulnerable individuals. But while I’ve been incredibly fortunate to find an environment in which…

I’ve spent two decades working in tech. I’ve been an engineer, a CTO, a co-founder, a director, a team lead, a QA… you get the picture. For most of that time, I was ostensibly moving through the industry as a cishet (meaning cisgender and heterosexual), white, middle-class male. In reality I was a queer AuDHD…

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, a topic close to home here at Grounded HR as Julia Beeby, one of our Lead HR Consultants, and her husband experienced a neonatal death and became one of the 1 in 4 parents to lose a baby when their first-born daughter, Skylar-Mae Hope unexpectedly died at…