Then After the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, executives from more than 1,400 Fortune 1000 companies came forward, publicly, to demonstrate their support to create an antiracist workplace. These companies, mostly led by White men, included a range of industries including Technology, Healthcare, Energy, Retail, and Finance, with the last being the […]

Throughout 2026, the United States plans to commemorate and celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The opening stanza to that founding document: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their creator, with certain inalienable rights.” Yet, at the […]

"Building a Culture That Works for All of Us" was created, and is being implemented with an Organizational Development lens, not in program, department or training silos.

We took the Antiracist Style Indicator (ASI) when we first began writing The Business of Race in June 2020. We didn’t know what we didn’t know. So we took a first step and then another step. Then another. Shortly into our journey, those steps led us to the ASI. And learning about redlining. The origins […]

As of March 2022, 85 S&P 100 companies now disclose, or have committed to disclose, their EEO-1 Report – the group of federally required documents that provide granular detail about the number of Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native and White men and women at every level of a company. Bloomberg reports that two large companies – […]

Experiment with the Voice Method. Assemble Diverse Interview Panels. Ask Value-based Questions. Solicit Input from Frontline Employees. Keep Diversity Top of Mind for Final Hiring Decision. “Get Loud.” For details on each practice, download for free Chapter 10: Hiring Made Visible: Individual Decisions, Institutional Changes.