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08 Jul 2017

When Potential Mentors Are Mostly White and Male

Unconscious bias can influence who leaders choose as their protégés. Can its effects be mitigated? by Alexandra E. Petri for The Atlantic Stacy Blake-Beard was 29 years old when she was starting out as a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. Not only was she the youngest faculty member, but she was also younger than most of her students. One day, one of her do...

16 Jun 2017

Diverse Interview Panels May Be a Key to Workplace Diversity

By Katherine Reynolds Lewis When Karenga Ross met Intel senior leaders at a conference of the National Society of Black Engineers two years ago, they invited her to throw her hat into the ring for opportunities at the company. The next day, she found herself facing a panel of interviewers that included two women who—like her—are African-American. “Wow, this is different,” Karenga r...

09 Jun 2017

A Mere 12% Of Companies Are Truly Inclusive — Here’s How To Fix That

By Jeff Kauflin, Forbes Staff Many businesses acknowledge the importance of building a diverse team. But if employees of different backgrounds don’t feel like they belong, diversity doesn’t mean much. A new Deloitte study shows that, although 71% of organizations aspire to have inclusive cultures, only 12% meet that goal. “Inclusion is taking people with diverse backgrounds and sayin...

24 May 2017

Harvard Business School Has A Diversity Problem — Here’s How To Fix It

Last week Dean Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School penned an editorial for the Washington Post on how diversity fails without inclusion. I appreciate how hard it must have been to go public on a subject that seems controversial to some: the lack of respect and equal opportunity for people of all backgrounds that still pervades our most august institutions. As a Black woman from worki...

04 Apr 2017

A Heartfelt “Thank You” To Former Starbucks CEO

I was at my local Starbucks on E. Fort Avenue in the Federal Hill area of Baltimore when I heard that Howard Schultz was leaving his position as CEO. I thought, Schultz would be proud of this place. While not all the stores are like this one, I have to say, “my” Starbucks is the real deal — a welcoming, eclectic community, run by a diverse group of kind, positive, and competent barista...

04 Feb 2017

Diversity Doesn’t Stick Without Inclusion

Harvard Business Review. Laura Sherbin & Ripa Rashid. Leaders have long recognized that a diverse workforce of women, people of color, and LGBT individuals confers a competitive edge in terms of selling products or services to diverse end users. Yet a stark gap persists between recognizing the leadership behaviors that unlock this capability and actually practicing them. Part o...

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