22 Podcasts to Increase Your Awareness Around Diversity and Inclusion

You may not have the time to sit down and read a book, but you can always pop on a podcast, and keep up on industry trends and new ideas on-the-go. Having diverse teams and making sure every voice is heard is what’s going to differentiate businesses in the future, so here are some top podcasts addressing diversity and inclusion today to keep you informed, educated, and inspired.

All Inclusive

Host Jay Ruderman devotes All Inclusive to examining the intersection of inclusion, innovation, and social justice, interviewing guests from a variety of industries — like sports, Hollywood, journalism, and education — on how they see inclusion playing out in their space.

Code Switch

Hosted by journalists of color Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby, Code Switch from NPR focuses on the news and conversations around race, how it’s playing out in society, politics, and culture, and how it intersects everyday life.

Crescendo Chats: Scaling Diversity & Inclusion

If you’re looking to ramp up your diversity and inclusion training programs, host Stefan Kollenberg educates listeners on innovations and best practices around implementation through interviews with HR and D&I leaders — like how D&I impacts sales, investing, and strategy.

Culture Stew

Drawing on interviews with leading journalists, scientists, practitioners, and more, host Maria Morukian dives into topics that explore how to build teams that value difference and honor cultural identity. Recent discussions include compassionate leadership, resilience, and supporting women.

DiverCity Podcast

Host Julia Streets chats with leaders from London about topics related to diversity and inclusion in the financial services sector, with past episode topics centering around how to build resilience, how to support employees with disabilities, ethnic minority representation, and more.

Diversity: Beyond the Checkbox

Host Donald Thompson interviews leaders from a wide range of industries to talk about how they value diversity, and how to go “beyond the checkbox” in implementing initiatives. Recent conversations include code switching in sales, LGBTQ allyship, and underrepresentation in media.

Diversity Deep Dive

Diversity Deep Dive showcases stories of individuals fighting against biases and stereotypes to challenge the way we think about diversity and inclusion, and to provide new approaches and best practices for incorporating differences — like supporting women in tech, and where you’re missing opportunities for inclusion.

Diversity in Tech

Host Joanna Udo seeks to increase representation of women of color in the tech industry. Weekly interviews with tech leaders, designers, and more provide strategies, industry insights, and support for career-seekers, and with recent discussions on tech recruiting, leadership and data, and starting a tech career.

Everybody Matters

The Everybody Matters podcast stresses just that: That each person in an organization matters and has much to contribute. Through interviews with inspirational leaders, advice for situational leadership, and a “Higher Purpose” series, host Brent Stewart helps listeners become more conscious and caring in their workplace.

In Black America

Hosted by John L. Hanson Jr., In Black America discusses African American life today through interviews with educators, writers, civil rights leaders, and artists, in order to educate on the history of being black in America, and to tackle the current conversations around race, representation in industries, and more.

Inclusion Catalyst

Hosts Mickey Desai and Susan Cooper explore conversations around the current issues in diversity and inclusion — from talent acquisition, to disability and LGBTQ topics, to how to support leaders of color — as well as providing context for social justice issues and best practices for workplace implementation.

Inclusive Excellence Podcast

Hosts Anthony Sis and Toral Patel from Cornell University bring in colleagues and leaders from around the university to discuss diversity and inclusion topics like gender affirmation, veteran inclusion, imposter syndrome, and more.

Leading with Empathy & Allyship Podcast

Host Melinda Briana Epler asks how we can be better advocates and allies in our workplaces and communities, leading discussions on how to increase empathy, recognize structural inequities, strengthen representation, and how to take action to drive change.

Living Corporate

Living Corporate seeks to promote black and brown voices in the workplace, and hosts conversations around higher-level discussions like racism and belonging, to practical advice like how to network, build a brand, and update a LinkedIn profile.

Minority Report Podcast

Hosts Kerel Cooper and Erik Requidan talk with industry leaders in business, tech, and media around the inclusion of people of color, women, and the LGBTQ community in the workplace. Recent topics focused on elevating underrepresented voices, building teams, and how leaders have overcome prejudice.

Mixed Company

Touted as “bringing the siloed and uncomfortable conversations we have with our friends to the forefront,” hosts Simeon Coker and Kai Deveraux Lawson address progress (or lack thereof) in diversity and inclusion in various industries, BLM representation, allyship, and more.

reWorked: The Company Culture Podcast

Host Rachel Wilson examines topics around diversity and inclusion, and gives advice and strategies on how to “rework” companies to address recruitment, inclusive leadership, unconscious bias, and more.

The Diversity Gap

Diversity and inclusion may have good intensions, but ultimately end up with little impact. That’s the diversity gap that host Bethaney Wilkinson explores through conversations with thought leaders and creatives, identifying how industries and society can create greater impact in diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The Element of Inclusion

One of the longest-running podcasts on diversity and inclusion, host Dr. Jonathan Ashong-Lamptey explains current thought leadership, books, and research behind diversity and inclusion initiatives and policies in short weekly segments.

The Forum on Workplace Inclusion

This podcast from The Forum at Augsburg University brings in thought leaders in diversity, equity, and inclusion to educate the audience around various topics in the space, like inclusive leadership, discrimination in the workplace, disability laws, diversity and politics, and solving tribalism.

The Will To Change

Leaders from various industries and spaces join host Jennifer Brown — herself an entrepreneur, speaker, and author — to share strategies for implementing more diverse and aware workplaces across different industries, and their own stories of facing diversity, racism, and injustice.

Women at Work

Hosts Amy Bernstein, Amy Gallo, and Emily Caufield from Harvard Business Review look at addressing issues specific to women in the workforce, like pay gaps, interruptions, being in male-dominated industries, and career development, providing tips and strategies through their conversations with women.

Stay tuned in to these podcasts and keep an ear out for newcomers as this medium is an engaging way to connect influencers who are driving compelling conversations around diversity and inclusion.