Forbes Leadership

AUGUST 8, 2022

For MedTrans Go CEO and Co-Founder Dana Weeks, equity, inclusion, and belonging have always been driving forces, but she also thought heath equity could mean better business. Frustrated by a healthcare industry hurting patients and businesses alike, she saw an opportunity and got to work.

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Forbes Leadership

MAY 10, 2023

In an effort to become a model employer, the OPM has proposed a new regulation to address pay equity in the federal workforce by changing the treatment of a candidate’s salary history when setting pay for federal employees in certain pay systems. Here's how it impacts you.

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Forbes Leadership

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Any workplace that wants to achieve equity most prioritize the needs of the most marginalized. September 21st is Black Women's Equal Pay Day. For every dollar that white men make, Black women are paid 58 cents. This article outlines how workplaces can better support their Black women employees.

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Forbes Leadership

APRIL 25, 2023

Appearance in the workforce at times effects the black women in corporate America and makes an impact on their economic success and longterm equity.

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Forbes Leadership

MARCH 25, 2023

Megha Desai, president of the Desai Foundation, and Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, author of "Periods Gone Public," offer 6 steps businesses can take today to support menstrual equity. Recently, lawmakers in Florida and Idaho have restricted information about and access to menstruation and period products.

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Forbes Leadership

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A new book — Equity & Access: An Analysis of Educational Leadership Preparation, Policy, & Practice — by Denver Fowler, Julian Vasquez Heilig, Sarah Jouganatos, and Arvin Johnson — aims to tackle the issue of school leadership.

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15Five

JUNE 2, 2023

The E in DEI is often overlooked, but equity in the workplace is an essential part of any solid DEI strategy, helping to create an inclusive work environment where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive, contribute, and succeed. What is equity in the workplace? Therefore, equity is different from equality.

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15Five

MARCH 27, 2023

How does your business communicate its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts? But to show the real impact of your DEI work, you need to create a diversity, equity and inclusion statement. What is a diversity, equity and inclusion statement? How can you weave diversity, equity and inclusion into your business strategy?

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15Five

JUNE 20, 2023

But what does diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) actually mean? What is diversity, equity, and inclusion? Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are fundamental principles that guide the fostering of an inclusive and equitable workplace and value the unique attributes and perspectives of individuals from all backgrounds.

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Forbes Leadership

AUGUST 7, 2022

This article examines the roles that justice and liberation play within the field of diversity, equity, and inclusion and provides important questions for DEI practitioners to consider.

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Forbes Leadership

JULY 17, 2022

As a new college graduate, he is dedicating his career to social equity and community empowerment largely because he understands the role that community support can play in one’s future. Virgil Parker graduated from Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington, D.C.,

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Forbes Leadership

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The pandemic didn’t just reveal these gaps; it has widened them, adding urgency to the need for higher education to deliver on its promise of equity and excellence.

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Forbes Leadership

JANUARY 25, 2023

He also has secured over $250 million for additional construction and student success initiatives, while establishing the College as a national equity leader. Since Keith Curry became its CEO, Compton College has completed nearly $118 million in renovations and new building construction projects.

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Forbes Leadership

AUGUST 15, 2022

In promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB), if we don’t address fixing the basics, implementing the right measures, real outcomes will continue to diverge from stated goals.

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Forbes Leadership

JANUARY 18, 2023

There are three reasons why your company's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts fail, these include employee fatigue, backlash, and denial of inequality. Here Lily Zheng shares what we can do to tackle these issues.

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15Five

JUNE 12, 2023

Whether you’re a seasoned DEI professional or dipping your toes in for the first time, familiarizing yourself with the guiding principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion is worthwhile. Further reading: How to Promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace.

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Forbes Leadership

JULY 18, 2022

A new global Wealth Equity Index highlights the factors that drive wealth gender disparities for employees at retirement. Despite an increased focus on DEI as part of ESG commitments, women worldwide are expected to have significantly lower accumulated wealth than men at retirement. Here's why.

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Forbes Leadership

MAY 27, 2022

To help you get started, check out this list of new books focused on gender equality and building equity for women of color. Allyship shouldn’t end with increasing your knowledge, but it is an important place to begin.

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Forbes Leadership

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

When companies focus on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), they often report on gender diversity - though most only have a narrow definition of gender diversity, as a new report reveals.

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Forbes Leadership

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This article explores three specific ways to promote pay equity. The law will require employers with at least four employees to include salary ranges in job postings. Aside from transparent salaries, what else can be done?

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Forbes Leadership

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As Treasury writes regulations to accompany the new law, it must decide whether private equity is a business. The legal answer is easy: Yes, private equity is a business.

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Forbes Leadership

JUNE 2, 2022

The National Education Equity Lab is expanding its work of turning low-income high-school students on to the possibility of succeeding in college. In the process, it’s showing how the college pipeline can be stocked with talented students from all kinds of backgrounds.

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Forbes Leadership

MARCH 15, 2023

New data shows that the toxic workplace culture gender gap and the pay equity gap between men and women is widening, and experts speak out about what needs to change.

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15Five

MAY 25, 2020

In today’s business world, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are often treated as buzzwords that often amount to little more than a mandatory annual training. Equity ensures everyone has access to the same treatment, opportunities, and advancement. The importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations.

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Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Leaders and funders should look across their organizations and think creatively about leveraging all the tools available to further equity. Our current and growing inequities experienced in our Black and Brown communities demand it.

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Forbes Leadership

OCTOBER 27, 2022

billion workforce program to improve job quality, equity, and workforce innovation. Deputy Secretary of Labor Julie Su announced the "Yes, WIOA Can!" campaign to help states better leverage the $3.6

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Forbes Leadership

APRIL 13, 2023

In this article, I will provide a high-level overview of how to implement a pay equity audit.

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15Five

JULY 22, 2022

In this video, Cara Pelletier, Senior Director of DEI&B at 15Five, discusses the definition of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging and helps us draw the line to the impact on business performance. Let’s define diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Equity would be giving everyone a pair of shoes that fits them.

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Forbes Leadership

MARCH 22, 2023

Pay equity is not a hot topic no matter who’s trying to keep the discussion going and finally undo pay inequity, Maybe that’s what we should call it: Pay inequity. Biro looks at what comes next.

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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 21, 2022

While many companies focus these efforts outward, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the organization is a critical part of the equation. Discuss the Difference Between Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The post Create a Successful Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training Program appeared first on Clarity Consultants.

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Thought Leaders LLC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Our reader poll today asks: What is your opinion of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts at your company? They’re great! Everyone needs to feel respected, fairly treated and included 41.78% They’re okay. I get the principle but sometimes it doesn’t work as intended 34.23% They’re a distraction.

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15Five

MARCH 8, 2022

Read on as Cara explores the link between employee feedback and gender equity, and how leaders can improve the quality of the feedback they provide to women and level the playing field for all employees. The post The Link Between Employee Feedback and Gender Equity appeared first on 15Five.

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Forbes Leadership

MAY 3, 2023

The desire for positive change in the venture capital (VC) industry is clear, however there is still much work to be done to advance diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The VC industry has significant influence in driving the US economy, which is why we examine its progress related to DEI.

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Forbes Leadership

JUNE 5, 2022

Gen-Z demand racial justice, not just diversity, equity and inclusion. The brands that can make inclusivity part of their core mission—not a PR statement—will win the hearts and minds of a new generation of citizens. Not consumers.

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15Five

JULY 24, 2023

First, you can mitigate some of the negative effects by centering fairness equity in the RIF process, start to finish. DEI leaders should provide executives an analysis of the effect the RIF will have on diversity and equity metrics before final decisions are made: Will there be an outsized impact on women in leadership roles?

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Chief Executive

JUNE 30, 2022

A recent decision by the Delaware Court of Chancery means that corporate boards may need to be more discerning in how they approve equity compensation awards—especially when the awards are challenged by shareholders. In May, the Court heard the case of Garfield v. Seek advice on D&O insurance coverage.

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Forbes Leadership

MARCH 31, 2023

In this article, I will outline two ways leaders can celebrate women's history month all year long by embracing equity at home and work.

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