What are your approaches to diversifying leadership within your organization, and how do you ensure that leaders at all levels are equipped to foster DE&I?
The immediate response is often to recruit at the senior levels, but that's a much smaller and highly competitive sample pool. With greater diversity at the entry or early career positions, the focus should be on retention and development to prevent people from leaving. Recruitment is just one small piece of the puzzle. It's critical to consider what happens once someone is in the door, such as how we onboard, integrate, and advance our talent.
We're doing similar things. Metrics help because what gets measured gets done. By examining our workforce representation, we can identify where to focus on strategic recruitment or retention programs. We add a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens to our people processes around hiring, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning. We also focus on building inclusive leadership capabilities with required training for managers and new hires.