Press and appearances
Where the work has appeared
Dr. Shawna M. Gann is a business psychologist, organizational consultant, and executive coach. Her work on identity, civility, and belonging at work has appeared in national media, on conference stages, and in one museum in Austria.
A selection of conversations and appearances is below.
Exhibit feature
Code of Courage. Diversity begins with me.
It started with a class. Dr. Gann spoke with students at HTL Mössingerstraße in Klagenfurt, Austria, after they listened to episodes of her podcast. Months later, those students built an exhibition at the kärnten.museum, and her conversation became one of its panels.
The students did all of it. They researched, ran the interviews, recorded an audio series, designed the panels, and helped mount the show. Visitors scan a QR code and hear the interviews on their phones. Dr. Gann's panel stands in the museum's main hall, in German and in English.
Every person has a story. Perhaps it is even more than that. Every person is a story.
Dr. Mirjam Rein
kärnten.museum · Klagenfurt, Austria · Through August 2026
In the media
Verywell Mind
How to thrive at work as an introvert
Quoted on what workplaces get wrong about their quieter employees, and what changes the experience.
5min.at · Austria
Carinthian students show why looking away is not a solution
Coverage of the Code of Courage exhibition, where Dr. Gann's interview appears as one of seven featured stories.
Verywell Mind
How to thrive at work as an introvert
Quoted on what workplaces get wrong about their quieter employees, and what changes the experience.
On the mic
Row House Publishing
True Colors Consulting, organizational fairness, and leading with intention
On building a practice around fairness, and what intentional leadership asks of the people in charge.
Nikki Innocent
Shining a light on the racially ambiguous experience
On being perceived differently in different settings, and what that reveals about those settings.
Conferences and panels
CMRSA 2026 · Los Angeles
CMRSA 2026 · Los Angeles
Critical Mixed Race Studies Association
Fault lines and bridges. What mixed-race narratives reveal about belonging at work.
A ninety-minute session drawing on a multi-year study of multiracial professionals, reframed through a civility lens.
Resonant voices. An interactive exhibit of mixed-race narratives.
A self-guided, museum-style workshop using podcasting as a tool for critical healing, with listening stations, a story wall, and live recording.
Executive Board, Membership Representative
Currently serving on the board of the field's primary scholarly association.
Webinars
On what stays invisible when an organization assumes everyone fits a single category.
Free to Be Fest 2026 · Los Angeles
Institute for Diversity Certification
Institute for Diversity Certification
Helping you know better. Lessons and reflections on raising mixed-race kids.
A panel on what parents of mixed-race kids learn along the way, and what many wish they had known sooner.
Recognizing the unseen. Mixed-race employees at work.
Recognizing the unseen. Mixed-race employees at work.
On what stays invisible when an organization assumes everyone fits a single category.
Authenticity and communication. Building confidence in diverse spaces.
On what it takes to perform fluency in someone else's norms, and what changes when you stop.
Media and speaking inquiries
Available for interviews, panels, keynotes, and commentary on workplace culture, identity, and belonging.