Whats Your Zip Code Story?, CJ Gross
Whats Your Zip Code Story?, CJ Gross
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What's Your Zip Code Story?
Understanding and Overcoming Class Bias in the Workplace

Author: CJ Gross

Narrator: Brandon Colbert

Unabridged: 6 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/2022

Synopsis

Shedding light on class division, this audiobook offers solutions to class bias in the workplace by analyzing real experiences, social norms, education, wealth, and more.The renewed focus on class, race, and equality in the workplace and beyond is making an indelible mark on society. This clarion call for change is sweeping inequality from every corner of the nation, including law enforcement, schools, and businesses. And within the past five years, diversity and inclusion, as well as unconscious bias, have been the main drivers of organizational training, politics, and community engagement.What’s Your Zip Code Story? helps clarify the intersection of class bias and racial disparity in the workplace and arms organizations with the knowledge to not only have productive discussions, but also adopt effective solutions. Gross instructs class-migrants—whether college students, recent graduates, or overlooked employees—on how to climb the career lattice and transform themselves from undervalued employees to respected leaders. The book tackles challenges that class-migrants encounter when navigating the workplace and provides operative practices that can be utilized to hone new professional skills and drive positive change in workplace culture. It is a powerful tool that will inspire marginalized employees who are hungry for personal and professional growth, as well as give insight to business leaders seeking a new way to engage their teams. Through the lived experiences of the author and research-based strategies, listeners will find insights on how to increase workplace engagement and business performance.

About CJ Gross

Christopher “CJ” Gross has nineteen years experience in leadership and organization development domestically and globally. He is a TEDx speaker, international organizational development consultant, and founder of Ascension Worldwide, a full-service minority-owned consulting firm committed to helping clients achieve workplace inclusion, employee, and client diversity.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Simran

What's your zip code story ? - Understanding and overcoming class bias in the workplace by CJ Gross is a powerful self help book that can help cross the barriers between people. Those barriers could have been from numerous reasons and could give rise to certain social class bias in workplace. Sheddi......more

Goodreads review by Zakiya

Solid 3.5 rounded down. I think that the hypothesis is clear and valid one, but I felt like it was too anecdotal. Most of the evidence dealt more with personal stories and lessons gathered and learned. If you are looking for someone’s perspective….this would be a good book for you. If you are lookin......more

Goodreads review by Ruby

What's your zip code story? is an insightful book about the class bias in the workplace, highlighting the certain assessment based on racial disparities, limited scope of acceptance and beliefs, cultural discriminations punctuated by challenges and tribulations of the affecting mindset. This book enc......more

Goodreads review by Muskan

I love it. The story illuminates the intersections in our lives, the places that both connect and separate us, the invisible boundaries between the rich and poor, opportunity and choices, truth and perception. The book serves as a looking glass on self and social class. What is class migration, and......more

Goodreads review by Michelle

I found this book very illuminating. Here are some notes I took: -- “a class migrant is an individual from the working class who attempts upwards mobility to the middle class. The transition is multifaceted. It not only hinges on an individual’s shift between educational and occupational status (such......more

Quotes

“Gross asks both employees and leaders to reflect on their ‘zip code stories,’ or the childhood experiences and cultural norms that reflect their class…It’s a much-needed conversation starter about class in the workplace.” Publishers Weekly

“Gross challenges readers to recognize their own zip-code stories and how they shape their views of others…Emigrants, workplace-diversity-and-inclusion leaders, college students, and those interested in social justice will be drawn to this book.” Booklist

“What’s Your Zip Code Story? shows why it’s important to include class in your diversity initiatives, not because class is more important than race but because you won’t be able to effectively recruit and retain people of color without addressing class as well as race—and because first-generation professionals of all races are, in effect, migrating from one class culture to a different one. This book will help.” Joan C. Williams, author, Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good and White Working Class

“This timely and important book…brings a fresh and innovative perspective to our nation’s current discussion on issues of diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in the workplace. From the very beginning of our nation, a person’s place of birth has had a profound impact on almost every aspect of their opportunities in life. Drawing on his own life experiences, as well as the experiences of others, Gross speaks to this critical reality. He does so by not only providing organizations with tools and strategies to help facilitate a more inclusive and equitable workplace, he does the same for his fellow “class-migrants” who are looking to climb the social and workplace ladder. For everyone who is a stakeholder in the diversity and inclusion discussion, this is a must-read book!” Johnetta Betsch Cole, PhD, president emerita, Spelman and Bennett Colleges; director emerita, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art; and chair of the board and president, National Council of Negro Women

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