During Pride Month in June, many employers take the opportunity to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community in many important and visible ways. But creating a genuinely inclusive culture means taking year-round action. What does LGBTQ+ community refer to? As an umbrella term, LGBTQ+ includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people.
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Achieving Racial Equity In The Workplace To create the real, systemic change needed to achieve racial equality in the
Becoming Inclusive Leaders For Women It’s important to create a welcoming environment for your entire workforce, and that means working to become gender inclusive. Learn what that means, why it matters, and what you can start working on right now to be inclusive leaders for women. Organizations with gender-inclusive cultures
Empowered, inclusive leadership is essential at all levels of an organization In a 2014 paper evaluating leadership trends, the multinational management firm Deloitte advocated the importance of cultivating leaders at every level of an organization. Its authors explain: “Today’s market environment places a premium on speed, flexibility, and the ability
What a DEI Council or Committee Does One of the components of a comprehensive DEI strategy that I enjoy working on most for clients is helping an organization form its DEI council! Organizations create DEI councils or committees to prioritize a diverse, equitable, and inclusive working environment, identify systemic inequities
My passion and drive to be an inclusive leader are heavily guided by my experiences as a Black woman and over 28 years of work experience in various industries so I know firsthand what inclusion can do for someone. Inclusion in the workplace give people the opportunity to go beyond
Employee turnover due to racial inequity in the workplace has cost U.S. organizations up to $172 billion over the past five years, according to new research by SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management). A new report, The Cost of Racial Injustice, found one-third of Black employees faced unfair treatment at
“Racial equity is about applying justice, fairness, and a little bit of common sense to a value system that’s been way out of bounds for centuries. When our values are so out of whack that Black people and people of color feel the pain and loss most severely, let me
