Your Business News Could Be Here!
Contact us today and let us create a package that helps showcse your DEI efforts. You’re doing the work, let us tell the story!
The Business Case for DEI
This exclusive feature will provide the opportunity for local business leaders to share their thoughts about inclusion efforts. Options include video profiles. Contact our team today and learn how you can be featured in this “hot topic” section.
Many people have biased perceptions of equity, diversity and inclusion leaders, study finds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For the past decade, companies across North America have paid more attention to supporting equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). This has prompted many organizations to create a leadership role fully dedicated to advancing...
Amanda Garcia-Williams is New DEI Chief at Husch
From Husch Blackwell Husch Blackwell has hired Amanda Garcia-Williams as its first Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer (CDO). Garcia-Williams is based in Lansing, Michigan, and will join The Link, the firm’s virtual office. As CDO, Garcia-Williams will lead...
Advertising Industry Struggling to Diversify
lrittenhouse@businessinsider.com (Lindsay Rittenhouse) After the March 16 Atlanta-area spa shootings left eight people dead, six of whom were women of Asian descent, Sai He, an Asian American copywriter, recalled his own experience with racism at an ad agency....
Wells Fargo CEO Runs into a Wall
Wells Fargo Chief Executive Charles Scharf exasperated some Black employees in a Zoom meeting this summer when he reiterated that the bank had trouble reaching diversity goals because there was not enough qualified minority talent, two participants told Reuters.
Pandemic Exposes Disparities Dr. King Fought Against
Resiliency has become the watchword of the COVID-19 era. The pandemic reinforced the need to build more resilient institutions and societies that can withstand shocks like a global public health crisis. But resiliency begins with understanding how racial inequities perpetuate social and economic vulnerabilities that affect all of us and weaken the foundation of our society. Resiliency is strengthened by resolving the inequities we know exist.
Valerie Patton: We Need to Be Serious About Inclusion
Valerie E. Patton previously served as Senior Vice President, Economic Inclusion and Executive Director of the Saint Louis Business Diversity Initiative. She leads Greater St. Louis, Inc.’s diversity, equity and inclusion strategies and programs as well as its...
