Accenture named Julie Spellman Sweet to head its U.S. operations. As of next month, four of the six major consulting firms will have women leaders.
Talent Management
Assessing Talent: Is the Nine-Box Dead?
How accurately is your company determining who should be a high potential? The old nine-box matrix is increasingly coming under fire as new ways of including talented employees — and factoring in diversity — take hold.
Wells Fargo’s Martinez: Empowering People With Disabilities
Renowned disability advocate Kathy Martinez brings her experience to Wells Fargo, heading an effort to improve recruitment, customer service and supplier diversity for people with disabilities.
Millennials Want Strong Codes of Conduct
Corporate codes of conduct and values statements are increasingly important to recruiting millennials, as well as engaging a global workforce.
Top Companies for Women All Have …
The companies with the best data for women in management and senior roles use three best practices most frequently – mentoring, employee-resource groups, and flexible workplaces.
Web Seminar: Talent Pipeline/Succession Planning
In this Web Seminar, KPMG’s Tori Farmer and Baxter International’s Irina Konstantinovsky share successful strategies, including mentoring and identification of high potentials, to increase diversity in the top levels.
New Deloitte CEO: From High-Potential to Inspiration
“My main goal is to inspire our men and women and be very inclusive. I want everybody to know that diversity and inclusion are priorities for me.”
PwC Research: What Millennial Women Want
A new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers, released for International Women’s Day, finds that female Millennials value diversity and inclusion, and make career mobility and flexibility their top workplace demands.
3 Ways Prudential Boosted Multicultural Market Share
Prudential Financial determined that there were three ways to increase its share of the multicultural market: increased knowledge of the communities, more representative hiring, and effective use of its employee resource groups.
EY: Slow Progress for Women on U.S. Boards
Despite increasing recognition for the value women bring to corporate boards, U.S. companies continue a slow march toward gender diversity.
Prudential Commits $13 million to Support President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Initiative
My Brother’s Keeper co-chair Joe Echevarria, Deloitte CEO (ret.) lauds major corporate contribution to cross-sector initiative.
Wyndham’s Gail Mandel: Grab What You Want
Gail Mandel’s promotion to President and CEO of Wyndham Exchange & Rentals didn’t surprise her boss and mentor, Wyndham Worldwide CEO and Chairman Stephen Holmes.
Stories From High Potentials Who Made It
The improving economy means your high-potential talent—especially from underrepresented groups—is at risk. Here are retention best practices from EY, Marriott International and Sodexo.
Christi Shaw, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation: ‘We Tap Into All Perspectives’
The leader of the No. 1 company in the DiversityInc Top 50 discusses her company’s remarkable diversity journey and how D&I is critical to its success.
Baseball Strike, Tech Turmoil, Financial Collapse: Lessons in Diversity of Thinking
Matthew W. Schuyler, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer,
Hilton Worldwide, reveals how his unusual work experience taught him to appreciate diversity of thought.