Managing Diversity
What can diversity leaders learn from diversity pioneers? This article describes the history of diversity education, the role consultants have played in making it a viable profession and the changi...
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DTUI began preparing and certifying diversity professionals in 1998, years before DEI certification became a growing professional education field. This article documents that early history, highlig...
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Fairness Governance Will Keep Organizations Safe Should EEO End Mandatory Reporting The proposal is not yet final. The public inspection version is scheduled for publication in the Federal Register...
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I’m not the typical person you’d expect to be writing in support of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. I’m a white male, a former Fortune 50 vice president, and now an adjunct professor of strategy....
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In contemporary diverse work environments, supporting neurodivergent employees through thoughtful accommodations is not only a legal responsibility but also essential for fostering inclusive and pr...
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In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action, the narrative of “reverse racism” has gained traction in national conversations. Despite statistical evidence showing ...
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Following the Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action in university admissions, many companies have halted their DEI programs. However, DEI efforts remain legal and crucial for business ...
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Introduction The September 2020 Presidential Executive Order on Combating Race or Sexual Stereotyping has all but completely halted diversity training in the government and military sectors. It has...
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How Social Dominance Orientation Accounts for Differences Among Black Americans’ Views of Institutional Racism According to the Pew Research Center, most Black American adults believe that little r...
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Black people are sick and tired of being sick and tired. The Boston Tea Party was a protest in opposition to government practices that were perceived as a violation of rights. Demonstrators, includ...
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As today’s organizations struggle to attract, retain and develop a talented diverse workforce, Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are often asked to play key roles in diversity-and-inclusion (D&I) cha...
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Private: Inclusion and Workplace Safety during Covid-19: Be a Beacon!
Cultural Diversity Best Practices
We are living through an unprecedented time, which is calling on each person, team, and organization to find new ways of interacting as we practice physical distancing. At the same time, we still n...
Inclusion & Belonging
Introduction Amy Cappellanti-Wolf, Former SVP & CHRO for Symantec and Shiran Yaroslavsky, the CEO of Cassiopeia provide real-world insight on remote work challenges and the opportunities the new vi...
Inclusion & Belonging
Being the only one who looks like you in a room full of people can be exhausting! This feeling of exhaustion is only aggravated by the everyday stress of trying to succeed in your professional car...
Race Relations
Introduction The first African slaves arrived in the United States in 1619 and slavery lasted for 250 years. A formal government apology to those enslaved and their descendants has not been made. W...
Inclusion & Belonging
Test Your Inclusion & Belonging Competence. Which Inclusion & Belonging competence component is Ken lacking for managing diversity? Watch the short video!
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Small training jobs can be challenging, but they are a piece of cake compared to preparing training for thousands of participants. Offering an off the shelf training to a few thousand participants ...
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Bobbye Sweat CDP Current position: Director of Diversity & Inclusion Integration Organization: Hallmark Cards Prior positions: Chief Diversity Officer (Mercedes Benz Financial Services), Senior Man...
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Presenting a high impact case for cultural diversity is critical for onboarding the leadership, getting followers to participate, and requesting necessary resources. You cannot get the leadership o...
Cultural Diversity Events
Introduction Both practitioners and laypersons thought resistance to cultural diversity in the United States could not get any worse. Yet, we found ourselves appalled at the sheer amount of divisiv...
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The Diversity Training Pain Island Diversity training has a bad reputation and diversity professionals are at fault. Diversity training alone is too often marketed as a strategy. This leads to unre...
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Introduction Amy Cappellanti-Wolf, CHRO graciously offered her valuable time for an interview. She is Chief Human Resource Officer for Symantec, an American software company. Diversity Officer Maga...
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“Seven-in-10 Americans view race relations in the United States as poor — nearly matching the record high”, according to a new poll from NBC News and The Wall Street Journal.
Cultural Competence
Tanya’s “Rude” Awakening Tanya was surprised and puzzled. The training facilitator had just walked the class through an exercise. It brought her and the other participants to the sober reality that...
Race Relations
Introduction A bigot is someone who is intolerant of values and beliefs that they do not share. They show disdain for others in predictable ways. We all know the script. Some politician, actor, or ...
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Why Well-Documented Facts Don’t Stand A Chance Against Juicy False Narratives Why do we buy into narratives that exclude other cultural groups? Consider messages about Muslims being terrorists. Th...
Talent Management
The Civility & Collegiality Matters™ Series Mirror Neurons & Unconscious Bias Cultural diversity recruitment is far from easy. Interviewer bias is a common troublemaker for the best recruitment eff...
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HOW TO START A DIVERSITY INITIATIVE Click the Image to Get a Complimentary Copy of Navigating the Landmines of Cultural Diversity Leadership! Design, Develop, & Implement a Cultural Diversity Initi...
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Diversity Executive Leadership Academy 1. The Removal of Confederate Monuments in Public Spaces Sparks Deadly Protests (December 2017) In 2015, there were about 700 Confederate national monuments t...
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Students on the other side of the debate feel like they are not heard in the university’s “cultural diversity agenda”. Many of them do not personally agree with alt-right speakers’ choice of words ...
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Want to Impress Me? A Diversity Best Practice Award is Not Enough! African American Recruitment & Diversity Best Practice Organizations The workplace is where people aim to make their economic live...
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Organizational Leadership is the Key to Learning Outside the Classroom The college campus is recognized as a place for sharing ideas and developing critical thinking skills. Discussing controversia...
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Enjoy this Amazon commercial with a Social Responsibility Marketing Twist
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What is the Difference Between Diversity Training & Diversity Education? It is necessary to think beyond diversity practices as an inclusion strategy to appreciate the difference. Diversity trainin...
Diversitypedia
One way to increase the probability of success is to learn from the mistakes of others’ efforts to implement a diversity & inclusion initiative. Below is a list of sources of failure.
Leadership
The Current Reality of Workforce Diversity The frustration was palpable. Gathered as panelists at the April 2016 PUSHTech2020 Summit were Diversity Leaders from Yelp, Dropbox, Pinterest, Airbnb, Tw...
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It is very difficult to build trust when there is a history of perceived injustice. Any attempt by the police to show a good gesture to people in the black community is commendable. But it requires...
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The Diversity Training Pain Island Diversity training has a bad reputation and diversity professionals are at fault. Diversity training alone is too often marketed as a strategy. This leads to unre...
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Clever Cultural Diversity Debate Games Want to win an inclusion debate? Cultural diversity debates present teachable moments. Being able to nail someone who has difficulties embracing inclusion is ...
Cultural Diversity Calendar of Events
It appears that the television series Scandal has done more to promote racial harmony given the increase in white male and African American female relationships.
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High Tech companies implement The Rooney Rule recruitment plan to increase diversity. Tips for using items from the list for diversity training are offered.
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Diversity Best Practices refer to the strategy, plans, and actions in implementing a diversity initiative. Here are 10 High Impact Implementation Steps
Current Issues
The Top Ten Keys to a Successful Diversity Mentoring Program In this issue: Message from Dr. Billy Diversity Manager/Executive Jobs Events Calendar Annual Diversity Officer Magazine Leadership awar...
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Metrics speak louder than words. The diversity dashboard is a visual representation of workforce diversity and inclusion performance.
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What is Inclusive Intelligence?: Changing the D&I Landscape By Billy Vaughn, PhD CDP (Special thanks to Carla Grantham, CDP and Bruce Stewart for their feedback on a draft of this article). [dropca...
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Red Lobster Restaurants Will Pay $160,000 to Settle EEOC Sexual Harassment Lawsuit 4-29-15 Former Culinary Manager Sexually Harassed Female Employees, Federal Agency Said BALTIMORE – Red Lobster Re...
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Cultural Collisions occur when a person of one culture brings attention to another individual’s cultural difference in offensive ways – whether the individual intended to do so or not. Video
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A major shortcoming is the view that the problem is very complex, difficult to solve, and will take time.
Diversity Professional
Just a hand full of reputable diversity professionals programs exist. By reputable, I mean that the program has been in existence more than ten years, the facilitators are experts, and the client l...
Talent Management
You know that an employee is engaged when she or he is willing—even volunteering—to go the extra mile for the organization. This commitment is the result of feeling included, trusting that coll...
Talent Management
Letter from Billy Vaughn: Hi. Happy New Year! I am really excited about 2014. I had the pleasure of training a lot of people who were vying to become certified diversity professionals. They encoura...
Employee Engagement & Inclusion
Kodak’s Diversity and Inclusion Worldwide Strategy – Augustin Melendez, Eastman Kodak Company Editor’s choice – Presentations
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By:Â Derrick Deane on November 26, 2013 at 1:27PM It’s time to see which film can build up momentum heading into awards season. This morning, the Spirit Award nominees were announced and all the ex...
Cultural Diversity Calendar of Events
NOVEMBER Thanksgiving or Turkey Day? Readers also read this similar article: How a Holiday Party Announcement Defunded a Diversity Office https://www.diversityexecutiveacademy.com/2017/12/02/cult...
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HIGH IMPACT DIVERSITY & INCLUSION LESSONS Managing Collegiality & Civility Can Be a Challenge Managing employee collegiality and civility is one of the more challenging human resource management re...
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BSBINN801A: Lead Innovative Thinking and Practice Element 3: Generate and support a culture of innovation Element 4: Sustain innovative thinking and practice Link to all diagrams & resources throug...
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SOURCE: PA Consulting Group US September 03, 2013 10:11 ET Research From PA Consulting Group Shows Why Organizational Culture Is the Key to Gender Diversity — and to a Company’s Success NEW YORK, N...
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Diversity professional credentials are becoming both popular and required. How much education does a diversity expert need? What type of education is satisfactory? These are difficult questions to ...
Diversity & Inclusion Best Practices
Strategic Plan Implementation–Start with the Communication Strategy[i] [ii] Communicating your strategic plan is crucial for successful roll out and sustainability. Â This module offers insights in...
Leadership
Dr. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. (1944 – 2013) was a cultural diversity pioneer at the forefront of developing a framework for Diversity Management and innovative strategies for maximizing organizational ...
Current Issues
A human resource professional does not have the luxury of taking a person’s word for it when investigating a report of an employee’s “insensitive” remarks. At the same time they are human. Check ou...
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Economic globalization is imposing a greater rate of cultural interaction that sets the basis for a unique, modern cultural output. People are must transcend their original cultural boundaries in o...
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A scenario-based approach to predicting demographic shifts can prepare organizations to meet challenges and take full advantages of opportunities. An essential part of scenario creation is calling ...
Diversity & Inclusion Best Practices
The amount of evaluation that you provide depends on the types of decisions that your organization must make and the information needed to make those decisions.
Diversity & Inclusion Best Practices
Some diversity pioneers argue that the broader definition of diversity has “watered down†the focus on race to the extent that it is no longer dealt with seriously in diversity training.
Letters from the Editor
We know that diversity has unique meanings, functions, and uses in different parts of the world. While the United States may have led the diversity consulting and training movement, the full range ...
Talent Management
Team building is an important part of managing staff. Yet too often leaders treat it as a one-time workshop or seminar that has a life of its own afterwards. In fact, teamwork is built over time an...
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Cultural collisions refer to interactions that go wrong due to cultural differences. Readers also like this article: https://www.diversityexecutiveacademy.com/what-is-diversity-certification-cdp-cd...
Change in Action
The term “comfort women” was a euphemism used to describe women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.[1][2] Estimates vary as to how many women were involved, wit...
Diversity & Inclusion Best Practices
PHASE 1 ~ Start-Up. Before introducing organization-wide diversity efforts, senior-level staff and the board of directors should learn as much as possible about managing a diversity process and sho...
Cultural Diversity Research & Factoids
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March 2012 public opinion polls indicate that about 75% of Americans want George Zimmerman arrested for shooting Trayvon Martin to death. The opinions take into account news reports indicating tha...
Cultural Competence
By Billy Vaughn, PhD CDP reprint from Diversity Blog (July 14, 2008 – http://dtui.com/diversityblog/?p=26) Keywords: 360° feedback, Cultural competence, diversity & inclusion, performance apprais...
Diversity News
Article By Dugald McConnell and Brian Todd, CNN (CNN) – A protester who ridiculed the Muslim prophet Mohammed claims he was assaulted by a Muslim who was offended by the stunt, but a judge has symp...
Diversity & Inclusion Best Practices
Please join the Cultural Diversity Course on March 7, 2012 at 9:00 am PST, 11 am Central, and 12 Noon EST. 1. Go to this link (Please give yourself about 15 minutes for set up. https://www3.gotome...
Change in Action
Case Study Sara is ready to present her case for diversity and inclusion to her organization’s leadership team. She is dressed in a new ‘power†suit, flaunts a new hairstyle, and glows with the c...
Change in Action
A 50- something year old white woman arrived at her seat on a crowded flight and immediately didn’t want the seat. The seat was next to a black man. Disgusted, the woman immediately summoned the fl...
Change in Action
Diversity & Inclusion Best Practices
By Staff Writer The Native American job candidate with a tribal worldview offers an opportunity to increase diversity and inclusion in the interest of increased innovation and competitiveness. Thei...
Cultural Competence
One of the major challenges in creating a culturally diverse organization is the trouble recruiters make for themselves, their organization, and the candidates in the interview. At the same time, t...
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Sometimes you get one chance to avoid a landmine that could put you and the diversity initiative on the back burner, so taking care in developing this group is an imperative. The most important thi...
Managing Diversity
Introduction Researchers have long found that there is a relationship between employee’s commitment to their organization and turnover intention. In particular, ethnic minority employee turnover ha...
Diversity & Inclusion Best Practices
The Business Case for Diversity Management Education If you want to know what the business case is for diversity education ask the leaders of any organization. For eight months I worked with the of...
Cultural Competence
September 29, 2011 (updated 3/8/2019) Deploying high impact training modules requires competency gap analysis, the use of a competency framework, and competent facilitation skills. Integrity in the...
Cultural Competence
What is Cultural Competence? This article cultural competence and describes how to assess it at the individual and organizational levels. This article also uses a cultural competence framework as a...
Cultural Competence
by Susan Lucas (Evil HR Lady) Dear Evil HR Lady,If clashes keep occurring among team members, (whether due to personalities, ages, nationalities, communication or work styles), who is best able to ...
Cultural Competence
by Susan Klopfer, Group Klopfer Self-awareness is at the heart of strong leadership. Effective diversity leaders stay ahead by working to improve this critical skill. An important key is committing...
Cultural Competence
MERCEDES MARTIN & BILLY VAUGHN Cultural competence is at the heart of managing diversity. While a few people seem to be born with cultural competence, the rest of us have had to put considerable ef...
Managing Diversity
Upon returning from The 10th Annual Summit on Leading Diversity held in Atlanta March 16 – 18, I was struck by how fast the workforce diversity “lingo” changes between those of us in the field of d...
Managing Diversity
December 7, 2010 Workplace diversity refers to the variety of differences between people in an organization. That sounds simple, but diversity encompasses race, gender, ethnic group, age, personali...
Cultural Diversity Research & Factoids
Hubbard and Hubbard surveyed employees to find out what percentage of an eight-hour day is not spent on critical work due to real or perceived workplace barriers. While answers ranged between 9 and...
Cultural Diversity Research & Factoids
November 16, 2010. Chicago United and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago teamed up to survey Chicago area largest corporations in order to measure companies’ intent to advance diversity and inclusion ...
Diversity & Inclusion Best Practices
by Glenn Haussman, Editor in Chief of Hotel Interactive, Inc. Supplier Diversity is quickly becoming a core initiative by many leading lodging companies. But like most new things, figuring out how ...
Cultural Competence
If clashes keep occurring among team members, (whether due to personalities, ages, nationalities, communication or work styles), who is best able to identify, address, and formulate solutions? Shou...
Cultural Competence
by Susan Klopfer, Group Klopfer Self-awareness is at the heart of strong leadership. Effective diversity leaders stay ahead by working to improve this critical skill. An important key is committing...
Managing Diversity
Cultural diversity has become the buzzword for the 1990s. We hear less and less about equal employment opportunity and affirmative action efforts and programs, but hear more about multiculturalism...
Cultural Competence
Cultural competence is at the heart of managing diversity. While a few people seem to be born with cultural competence, the rest of us have had to put considerable effort into developing it. This m...
Diversity News
August 13, 2010 American talk radio host, socially conservative commentator and author Dr. Laura Schlessinger, 63, has apologized after going on a race-relations tirade in response to a black calle...
Leadership
The emergence of the chief diversity officer in higher education is not without historical precedence, as some institutions had ‘vice president for minority affairs†positions in the 1970s, when ...
Diversity Professional Profiles
An Interview with Francine Small CDP Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion Cook, Inc. by REGINA KLAESGES, PsyD Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry magazine named Cook the 2006 Medical Device Man...
Diversity & Inclusion Best Practices
Does Confrontation Work? Many diversity trainers believe that confronting people about their prejudice increases awareness of how their negative beliefs make problems for others. The early U.S. mil...
Diversity & Inclusion Best Practices
Diversity & Inclusion Best Practices
Healthcare leaders are eager to develop the competence needed to serve people across different cultures. One reason is that a serious patient care mishap due to cultural misunderstanding can potent...
Leadership
Organizations Aren’t Raising the Bar High Enough: The Need for a Giant Leap in Diversity & Inclusion Efforts Judith H. Katz & Frederick A. Miller, The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc. Over the...
Diversity & Inclusion Best Practices
John, a white male manager, says that ‘he is sick and tired of hearing about how ‘poor little ole’ Obama is being picked on because he is a black man,’ while he has to stand by and watch John McC...
Diversity & Inclusion Best Practices
Examples of Top Ten Diversity Best Practices Strong support from top management and board chair (written statement of commitment) Diversity linked to the strategic planning process, mission, vision...
