Women Empowerment in the Workplace
Tash Koster-Thomas
Book a demo →from €2,250 for your whole company
Book a demo →from €2,250 for your whole company
Tash Koster-Thomas (she/her) is an Inclusion and Diversity Consultant, presenter, speaker, and LGBTQ+ Activist who stands at the forefront of transformative conversations. Leveraging her identity and lived experience as a Black queer woman, Tash champions the cause of diversity and inclusion in both society and the workplace. Tash understands that embracing diversity is not only a moral imperative but also a strategic advantage. She is committed to guiding organizations through transformative journeys that go beyond compliance, fostering cultures that champion diversity, equity, and inclusion at every level.
All sessions by Tash →In this session, Tash explores women’s empowerment in the workplace through an intersectional lens. She highlights common challenges like the gender pay gap and lack of leadership representation, while noting additional barriers faced by Black, Latina, disabled, LGBTQ+, and older women.
Microaggressions, such as being interrupted or dismissed, can undermine confidence and career growth. Tash recommends self-advocacy, tracking achievements, negotiating salaries, and building diverse mentor networks.
Allies, including men, should recognize intersecting challenges and support inclusive policies.
During the expert session, Tash Koster-Thomas engages the audience through interactive exercises using the Mentimeter app, Q&A sessions, and live demonstrations.
Understanding how gender intersects with race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age, and other identities is essential for creating inclusive workplaces.
Practicing self-advocacy, building a network of supporters, and pursuing learning opportunities are crucial strategies for overcoming subtle, often unintentional forms of discrimination in the workplace. Speak up for yourself, seek out diverse perspectives, and continuously learn to combat microaggressions and achieve career success.
Everyone can make a difference as an ally by sponsoring individuals, amplifying women's ideas, providing confidential support, and committing to continuous learning.
In this expert session, speaker Tash explores women’s empowerment in the workplace through an intersectional lens. She notes that while some challenges, such as the gender pay gap and underrepresentation in leadership, affect all women, others are more pronounced for specific groups.
For example, Black women earn 63 cents and Latina women 57 cents for every dollar earned by white men. Disabled women hold jobs at lower rates (29% vs. 40% for non-disabled women), and LGBTQ+ women face discrimination and lack of acceptance.
Older women may encounter ageism or caregiving-related barriers. Tash stresses that allies should recognize these intersecting challenges and support inclusive policies like equal pay, flexible work, anti-discrimination laws, and diverse leadership.
Tash also discusses workplace microaggressions, such as being interrupted, having ideas dismissed, or being excluded from discussions. These subtle behaviors can undermine women’s confidence and career growth.
To combat them, she recommends self-advocacy, tracking achievements, negotiating salaries, and building a diverse support network of mentors and advisers rather than relying on a single mentor.
Allies play a critical role in promoting gender equality. Tash emphasizes self-advocacy, networking, and continuous learning as tools to navigate microaggressions and advance careers. Men can be included in these discussions by acknowledging the pressures they face, such as expectations around breadwinning or flexible work.
During the Q&A, participants raised various issues, including women in the military, work-life boundary challenges with female bosses, and microaggressions from supervisors. Tash advised addressing issues directly, documenting achievements (“brag book”), seeking allies, and using HR policies when necessary.
She recommended Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez to understand pervasive gender bias.
The session concluded with Tash encouraging participants to take action toward gender equity and offering her contact information for further resources.
From the survey every participant gets when the session ends, in their own words.
The stats were fascinating, and I loved the dynamism and energy of your presentation. A great mix of realism, optimism and practical actions that will let me take actionable items away from the session.
Leaving this meeting very inspired by Tash and different ways to improve my own circle and organization. Thank you Tash for doing this! Hope more men would have been present in the meeting room for this!
A great deal about my own experiences as a woman of Middle Eastern descent and seeking mentorships from both men and women! It was a very inspiring, impactful and moving sessions that hit the nail on the head about what women in the workplace experience.
Fantastic speaker! Very inspirational
The facts supporting the presentation were very interesting. There was one or two slides specifying black women and Latin women. Particularly the slide on gender pay gap. Would’ve been interesting to see Asian women specified as part of that pool.
I think it was very structured and informative and the menti's were a really nice way to have the audience feel included and validated on their personal experiences:)
Very useful session. I look forward to attending more sessions like this one.
It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
In this session, Tash explores women’s empowerment in the workplace through an intersectional lens. She highlights common challenges like the gender pay gap and lack of leadership representation, while noting additional barriers faced by Black, Latina, disabled, LGBTQ+, and older women. It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.
Tash Koster-Thomas is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.5 out of 5, across 193 responses, and rate Tash personally 4.8 out of 5.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Tash, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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