Any firm can ‘do’ diversity; it is the inclusion that is the difficult part. For an organization to be genuinely inclusive, it must change in the presence of diversity. And this change is painfully slow.
"In hindsight," bemoans Dame Helena Morrisey, Chair of the Diversity Project, "we should have called it the Inclusion Project."
This was no concession of defeat, though. In its first five years of existence, the Diversity Project had lobbied for and secured obligatory gender pay gap reporting at UK corporates, and substantially greater female representation on the boards of major UK firms. But any firm can ‘do’ diversity; it is inclusion that is the difficult part. For an organization to be genuinely inclusive, it must change in the presence of diversity. And this change is painfully slow.
Speakers:
Founding Director, Prospecta Limited, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
Laura Hanichak Gregg
Senior Vice President, Director of Practice Management and Advisor Research, FlexShares Exchange Traded Funds
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