Damion Jones, Inclusion & Diversity Lead at Monsanto, gives advice on how to respond when someone tells you “I don’t see color in the workplace.”
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How to Become A High Potential
How to Respond to ‘I Don’t See Color in the Workplace’
Monsanto’s D&I VP: How I Got Management to Notice Me
What qualities helped Melissa Harper become a high potential and move up rapidly in her corporate career? Her early mentors taught her three things – do your homework, build relationships, and come up with innovative solutions.
Addressing Unconscious Bias
Three executives from Monsanto share what led their company to create their own strategies to combat unconscious bias.
Monsanto Leverages Business Resource Groups to aid the African & African-American Farmer
Between 2006 and 2008, Monsanto began working to strengthen the relationship between 1890s Land-Grant universities and Black growers. Dr. Dewayne Goldmon, then our Product Development and Marketing Manager, led the efforts to establish a Black Grower Advisory Council to advise the company on the unique concerns of Black farmers.
Moving From Diversity & Inclusion to Inclusion & Diversity
Melissa Harper, Monsanto’s VP of Global Talent and Inclusion & Diversity explains why the company shifted to placing more emphasis on inclusion and putting inclusion before diversity.
VIDEO: Unconscious Bias at the Recruiting Stage
During a panel moderated by Lissiah Hundley of Cox Enterprises, executives from Monsanto, Nielsen and Comcast NBCUniversal discussed the realities of unconscious bias and offered strategies to remedy it at the recruiting stage.
Webinar: Diversity Metrics
Monsanto’s Diversity & Inclusion Director, Damion Jones, and Nielsen’s SVP of Global Diversity & Inclusion, Angela Talton, provide best practices on scorecards, dashboards, metrics for senior leadership, human-capital data, and supplier-diversity measurements.
Monsanto’s Steve Mizell: Finding the Right Talent to Solve Global Problems
“The journey from seed to biotech to digital has changed us. Five years ago, we didn’t have data scientists or marketing talent.”
Reputation Attracts Recruits, Especially Gen Y
Academic research and DiversityInc Top 50 data shows companies with strong and well-communicated social values are more attractive to recruits.
How Should Your Company React to Garner, Brown Protests?
The nationwide protests are on everyone’s minds but most companies shy away from confronting the racial issues dividing the nation. What can—and should—your company’s diversity leaders be doing?
Best Places for Executive Women to Work
Looking for a job? Find out—based on real data—which companies offer you the best chances for promotion and an inclusive and flexible culture.
Lessons Learned From Ferguson: Corporate Involvement Builds Community Trust
Community leaders are at the heart of building trust and improving relations between residents, authorities and officials. And companies are community leaders.
How to Get Equity for Women in Tech Jobs
In light of the Microsoft CEO’s blunder, we look at real best practices from Monsanto, IBM, Dell and BASF to find and promote women at tech companies.
Webinars
Webinar Recap: Multicultural Marketing Teams That Drive Business
Webinar Recap: Supplier Diversity Management Best Practices
2020 DiversityInc Post Virtual Top 50 Event Webinar
Webinar Recap: Limiting Bias in Diversity Recruiting
Webinar Recap: How DiversityInc Supports Our Partners During COVID-19
Webinar Recap: Embrace Design Thinking to Advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Webinar Recap: Formal Mentoring Programs Best Practices
Webinar Recap: Insights Into Effective Diverse Candidate Slates and Goal Setting
Webinar Recap: Executive Diversity Council Best Practices
Webinar Recap: Linking Diversity and Inclusion to Annual Performance Goals
Career Advice
TD Bank’s Lakshmi Stockham Offers Insight on Progression, Disability and LGBT Advancement
TD Bank’s Lakshmi Stockham Discusses Stress Related to Code Switching
TD Bank’s Lakshmi Stockham Discusses Intersectionality in the Workplace
TD Bank’s Lakshmi Stockham Gives Advice for Entering the Industry
AIG’s Shailesh Mathankar Discusses ‘The Big Picture’
A Key Lesson from AIG’s Carlo Crudele
