DiversityInc Best Practices is designed to help you find data, solutions and best practices to diversity-management questions and strategies. It is organized by topic and updated frequently as data and best practices evolve.
Following the murder of George Floyd, many companies got more intentional and focused on their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts than ever before. For some, that meant hiring their first Chief Diversity Officer while others…
One of the best indicators of an organization’s success around diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is leadership accountability for DEI. At our 2022 Women of Color and Their Allies event, DiversityInc’s Head of Strategic Partnerships,…
The pandemic has led to job changes and opportunities for many, but women of color still feel like they are competing with one another for scarce opportunities. While this might be the case, it is…
Women of color made huge gains in representation during the COVID-19 pandemic but are still lacking at all company levels – especially in executive leadership. Capital One and DiversityInc shared the results of their collaborative…
Minda Harts, workplace equity subject matter expert, professor of public service at NYU and the author of three books, shared her experience with workplace trauma at the Women of Color and Their Allies event (WOCA)….
The gender pay gap and lack of sponsorship and belonging – women of color face many challenges in the workplace. At the 2022 annual Women of Color and Their Allies event held in Louisville on…
When Colonel Yvonne Spencer finds herself in rooms full of scholars, educators, entrepreneurs and leaders, it isn’t often a room filled with women of color. As she began her session titled “Darned If You Do,…
For many women of color, race and gender in the workplace intersect with other areas of discrimination like disability, age or sexual orientation. At the 2022 annual Women of Color and Their Allies event held…
“Shared Sisterhood” is an important part of building a more inclusive, diverse and equitable world and workplace, and it’s a concept that applies to not only women, but to anyone and everyone. That was the…
Ameren President and CEO Martin Lyons shared the actions his company is taking to advance women of color at all levels in the workplace at the Women of Color and Their Allies event (WOCA). This…
Women of color have had enough at work. “White women say that there’s a glass ceiling,” says Sharon Fenster, founder of Sharon Fenster Consulting, a DEI consulting and coaching firm. “I’ve heard my women of…
EY’s second-annual US Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Report had a key focus for 2022: Building a more equitable working world. DiversityInc chatted with Leslie Patterson, EY Americas and US Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness leader…
Four years ago, Yanira Guzmán had just received a work promotion when she found out her division was dissolving. Guzmán made a lateral move within the company and was at the final stage of the…
Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2022 Report, which analyzes how employees experienced and felt about work and life in the past year, found that employee engagement and wellbeing are at a low while stress…
Women of color were hard at work opening businesses at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly half of the businesses started in 2020 were minority-owned, with minority women driving the business creation. Financial concerns,…
