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What Drives Real, Lasting DEI Impact?
5 factors that drive DEI efforts If you’re a leader looking to accelerate your organization’s progress on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) — this new report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) should be required reading. → Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lighthouses 2025 is the WEF’s latest edition in their ongoing effort to spotlight companies…
Read More#AccelerateAction: Why Male Allyship is Critical for Gender Equality
How Men Can Step Up as Allies to Accelerate Action It’s time for men to step up in corporate America. For all the noise we are hearing about companies canceling DEI Initiatives, 7 out of 8 companies are still actively working to create inclusive workspaces for all employees. Men are still in charge in most…
Read MoreWhat Majority Men Really Think About DE&I
Belonging Benefits Everyone: Why Male Allyship Is the Key to Workplace Transformation Coqual’s report, “The Majority Rules: How Majority Men Can Create Inclusive Workplaces,” demonstrates that straight, white men in leadership roles have a unique and powerful opportunity to drive these changes. Inclusion isn’t a lofty ideal—it’s a business necessity. Workplaces that foster a culture…
Read MoreThe Future of DEI & Male Allyship
Closing out 2024 and Looking Ahead to 2025 2024 proved to be another challenging year for advancing women’s leadership and fostering allyship. Amid ongoing attacks on DEI initiatives, McKinsey & Company + Lean In’s latest data painted a clear yet frustrating picture: progress toward workplace equity for women remains at a crawl. As I reflect…
Read MoreThe Motherhood Penalty: Why Addressing It is a Business Imperative
Creating stronger businesses and a stronger economy for all. In my last article, I discussed the key findings from the McKinsey & Company and Lean In 10th Anniversary Women in the Workplace Report. The conclusion was troubling: despite efforts, the needle isn’t moving fast enough on women’s leadership parity in the workplace. But the report…
Read MoreAI, Culture and the Future of Work
Leveraging AI to find and eliminate microaggressions and bias In an era of rapid technological advancement, artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to reshape the workplace. With all the hype around AI, I want to understand how we leverage this powerful tool to create more equitable and inclusive workplaces. In this second part of our series…
Read MoreUnderstanding Equal Pay Day and the Wage Negotiation Myths
Closing the gender wage gap to support women’s advancement Let’s talk about Equal Pay Day. This symbolic date represents how far into the new year women had to work to catch up with what men earned the previous year. This year, March 12, 2024 marked the occasion. While it shines a light on the persisting…
Read MoreOvercoming Resistance to DEI Initiatives with Awareness, Accountability and Advocacy
3 tips to drive DEI engagement We know that leadership and employee resistance to any corporate program, let alone a DEI initiative, can thwart or dampen its effectiveness. A recent Harvard Business Review article by Eric Shuman, Eric Knowles and Amit Goldenberg, To Overcome Resistance to DEI, Understand What’s Driving It, outlines three reasons people…
Read MoreThe Realities (and Myths) Hindering Women in the Workplace
The Four Things You Need to Know – Flexibility, Attitudes, the Broken Rung, and Microaggressions Every year, I anticipate reports like the McKinsey & Company and Lean In.org Women in the Workplace Report with a mixture of hopefulness and deep frustration . Frankly, it always seems to be a “good news, bad news” scenario with every step forward…
Read MoreThe Leadership Imperative to Advance Women
What are we doing to advance women in the legal profession? YWomen president, Jeffery Tobias Halter was invited to be interviewed as part of a new NAWL podcast series focused on allyship. In this episode, NAWL Member and Director, Regulatory Affairs Counsel at UBS, Saba Khan speaks with Jeffery Tobias Halter, Gender Strategist about the role allies…
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