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How Companies Can Recommit to Their DEI Goals

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with Darden’s Laura Morgan Roberts on why giving workers agency matters to your organization.

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5 Tips (Plus) for Leaders to Effect Change in DEI

UVA Darden

Darden Professors Melissa Thomas-Hunt and Laura Morgan Roberts, experts in DEIB, share five steps you can take to advance DEIB efforts, create an inclusive experience for all employees, build relationships with allies in the organization and move your organization forward. Where do you begin? How do you create that influence?

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Redressing the Praise Deficit: Women in Leadership and Leveraging Your Best Self

UVA Darden

“Societal patterns have changed over time, and we have far greater female representation in leadership,” says Darden Professor Laura Morgan Roberts. Laura Morgan Roberts. Laura Morgan Roberts. This disparity matters, says Roberts, and it matters a very great deal. Your Best Self.

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5 Barriers to Diversity and Inclusion

UVA Darden

Darden Professors Laura Morgan Roberts and Martin N. Historically we associate leadership with this narrow demographic, says Roberts. Leaders who deviate from the norm face more challenges from others in terms of respecting the brilliance and contribution that they bring,” says Roberts. Laura Morgan Roberts.

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Difference as a Tool for Change and Women in Leadership

UVA Darden

As a concept, positive deviance has been gaining traction in behavioral science; as a tool for driving change, it has enormous potential, says Roberts. But leveraging difference can also have the broader benefit of challenging negative stereotypes and building more positive images of women in positions of power and influence, says Roberts.

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How Process and Practice Can Combat Bias

UVA Darden

1 Laura Morgan Roberts, Lynn Perry Wooten and Martin N. Because at the end of the day — as we well know — for organizations to succeed, they need to fully leverage the talent they have. The preceding is drawn from the white paper Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and 5 Things You Can Do to Normalize DEI in Your Organization.

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How to Normalize DEI in Your Organization: Part 2

UVA Darden

Insights From Darden Professor Laura Morgan Roberts. An African American news editor interviewed by Roberts in her research on deviant identities proactively dips into his own racial insights and awareness of stereotypes to broaden his readers’ understanding of African Americans living in public housing. READ FULL BIO.