Indivisible

How to Forge Our Differences into a Stronger Future

By: Denise Hamilton

Narrated by: Denise Hamilton

Denise Hamilton helps listeners unpack their preconceived notions and reimagine a world that’s better than just “inclusive.”

Denise Hamilton has always believed in the power and promise of a word she learned as a schoolgirl: “indivisible.” In her groundbreaking debut, she challenges listeners to move beyond current notions of diversity and inclusion to build communities, workplaces, and relationships that live up to that word. She urges us to reexamine long-held beliefs and habits and to dismantle hierarchies that shape our current society. If we want to repair the fraying stitches that bind us together, if we want to build a truly close-knit collective, we cannot settle for our present approach. It’s time to recalibrate and identify a goal higher than inclusivity—the goal of indivisibility.

As a nationally recognized DEI leader, Hamilton shares accessible, personal stories and offers self-examination questions, intentional action steps, and journal prompts. While the audiobook has a focus on business and leadership, the lessons within can transform our professional and personal lives.


* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF that contains charts and graphs from throughout the book.

Exceptional take on how we need each other

Love Denise’s easy to understand and deeply thoughtful approach to how we can move beyond the divide and know we are one! Loved every minute of this book. So many takeaways.
Bravo

We all have blind spots

I really appreciated all the practical frameworks offered throughout this book. I especially liked the chapters on choosing a justice of the peace, choosing the uncomfortable truth over lies, and how we hold onto strange artifacts or stories that are no longer serving us and are often not even true. The audiobook also had an attached PDF with all the visual illustrations from the book. The final few chapters had many hands-on and practical frameworks that you can apply to your own business. I recommend that you pick up this book and digest it. Then go out and watch all the movies that Denise recommended to open your mind to different ways of thinking.

Inspiring, optimistic, and action-oriented

I loved the way Denise Hamilton presented the material in an optimistic and inviting way while not giving readers a pass to do nothing. This is not toxic positivity or false hope; this is a rousing call to action.

The combination of Hamilton’s personal stories and case studies made the book highly accessible. I also enjoyed hearing the author’s voice in the audiobook version.

Mind shifting perspective

This book might be the most well timed and well thought out narrative of the 21st century. At a time when we have been taught to fear people different than we are, Denise gives us a whole new paradigm of what we should be thinking and doing. I encourage anyone that believes themselves to be a leader to read this book and make it a part of how you build teams at work and how you engage with your fellow citizens.