By Shanique Yates Over a dozen companies have just pledged to add at least one Black director to their boards within the next year, AP News reports. The move comes as an effort to ensure their leadership reflects the customers they serve. “America has been reminded again in tragic fashion that we must redouble our efforts to […]Read More
By Katherine Johnson It’s more clear than ever that putting diversity and inclusion at the heart of an organization strengthens it at every level. Diversity has been conclusively shown to promote innovation, drive higher revenue, and improve employee engagement as companies strive to hire, include, and give equal value to employees from all backgrounds and circumstances. Inclusion within a […]Read More
By Kira Lussier Picture a standard corporate meeting room, participants crowded around a video of multi-racial actors acting out hypothetical office scenarios. They fill out workbooks about racial stereotypes, sit through psychological lessons on prejudice and discuss the recent protests against police brutality on the news. The year is 1992, and although the VHS player […]Read More
By Michelle Bogan Every person I know who is involved in diversity, inclusion, and equity work is exhausted. Down to their bones tired. And so worried that they’re not doing enough. DE&I is hard work. If it’s not hard right now, that is probably an indication you’re not digging deep enough, because we’re getting to core […]Read More
By NIsh Parikh Diversity and inclusion (D&I) is an integral part of most organizations’ strategy and vision. During normal times, it is an area that businesses work on assiduously to improve their brand and bottom line. However, with a global public health crisis impacting the economy and employment on an unprecedented scale, it is easy […]Read More
By Candice Morgan When I joined venture capital firm GV in January as the firm’s first diversity and inclusion partner, I was excited by the opportunity to help with one of the industry’s biggest challenges: ensuring underrepresented and underestimated founders gain access to capital. Currently only 1% of VC funding goes to Black founders and 2% to […]Read More
By Megan Rose Dickey Pinterest has appointed Andrea Wishom, president of real estate company Skywalker Holdings* and former Harpo Studios executive, to its board of directors. The appointment makes her Pinterest’s first Black board member and third female board member. Pinterest added its first female board member in 2016, when it appointed Michelle Wilson, a former […]Read More
By Michael Slepian Diversity brings many benefits to organizations — but it is not enough on its own. An organization with a diverse workforce is not necessarily an inclusive one. Diversity efforts now often fall under the banner of “Diversity and Inclusion” for this reason, but new research in a forthcoming issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science shows […]Read More
By Stephanie Vozza Many organizations are looking inside their own walls following protests against police brutality and racism across the country. Creating an effective policy, however, isn’t simple, says Michael Bach, author of Birds of All Feathers: Doing Diversity and Inclusion Right. “D&I, when it’s done effectively, isn’t a program, but a shift in how organizations […]Read More
By Carolina Milanesi Last week, Lenovo and Intel Corporation published the first chapter from a global study, titled “Diversity and Inclusion in the Global Workplace,” on how people across the globe view Diversity and Inclusion both in their private and professional life.This first dataset sheds some light on how 5000 respondents across the US, UK, Germany, Brazil and China […]Read More
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