Is your marketing and communication strategy excluding people inadvertantly? In this episode you learn about Alycia's background with accessibility and disability, then some quick tips to make sure your digital media is always hitting the mark for accessibility to boost your inclusivity.

UPDATE - Thanks to the Accessibility education community I have learned that including your image description in the caption or post in addition to in the alt text formatting DOES provide additional benefit to access. Need tips on how to write these descriptions? Here is an excellent guide from Perkins School for the Blind https://www.perkins.org/resource/how-write-alt-text-and-image-descriptions-visually-impaired/

TOOLS TO CHECK YOUR MATERIALS

Contrast Checker: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

Website ADA evaluator: https://www.accessibilitychecker.org/

Color blindness check for images: https://bioapps.byu.edu/colorblind_image_tester

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This week Alycia is thinking about what Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson was sharing - we [humanity] already have everything we need to solve the climate crisis... how does this feeling parlay into optimism for how possible it is to make your work more sustainable to? Alycia thinks yes.

Books referenced:

What If We Get It Right, by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

How We Gather Matters, by Leor Rotchild

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We need to prioritize making some progress all the time, rather than waiting for a perfect opportunity or big win, when it comes to implementing sustainable improvements in our businesses.

Alycia covers: mindset, some ideas of what counts, how to give yourself credit, and why it's so important to recognize when you're focused on making small progress instead of waiting for perfection.

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This week is a little break to reflect on some "Hard Truths with Alycia." All event sustainability professionals have the same lessons. Our solutions are harmonized and straight forward - the question is, why do we keep repeating ourselves? If everyone has hard the same 10 straight forward solutions but they are not in effect a majority of the time there must be another element holding the whole industry back...

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In this episode, I dive into the premise of event planning as a powerful form of leadership. Event planners shape environments that influence attendees' actions, ideas, and emotions, making us natural leaders in the process. I how to incorporate sustainability as a benefit of your leadership.

I share my perspective on how we, as event professionals, can lead by example—setting high standards, influencing client perceptions, and fostering a culture of collaboration and sustainability within our communities. Join me as I unpack what it means to take the lead in building impactful, sustainable events!

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The best tool for staying on top of a hard tasks, like with Sustainability, to make a big impact is a Growth Mindset. Basically, it is a mental framework for approaching life that helps reduce the impact of "failure" and "difficulty" by remembering and understanding that failure is inevitable but also a learning opportunity. Challenges are growth prompts that help you get better. And when working on the Progress over Perfection view on Sustainability employing a Growth Mindset means you're already prepared when you run into tougher fixes or scenarios that simply can't be sustainable this time.

I also cover the avalanche of "internet experts" making you feel incompetitant, insufficient, or like you're screwing it up... IGNORE THEM. That adrenalin and cortisol does not help you learn about sustainability, it does not make you better, and it has no place in your Growth Mindset. I give you full permission to ignore the fear mongering, guilt-pushing, and whatever else is stressing you on social, as long as you are Doing the Best You Can With the Tools You Have.

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In this episode, I talk about using psychology and behavioral economics to influence your sustainability outcomes at your events. I use meal choices as my example for how preset selections can influenced your attendees do what you're hoping they will do. I explain how “nudges” can guide attendees toward more sustainable options.

I reference the book Thinking Fast and Slow; the research of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky; and site Freakonomics and Choiceology podcasts for further insights into consumer behavior.

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