Racial Equity is ensuring all Americans can access the opportunity to survive and thrive in states, cities and counties across the nation. The current Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the fault lines in our land of equal opportunity. Not everyone has equal access to the social determinants of health and wealth. […]
We know viruses don’t discriminate right , or do they? What if viruses could apply the management concept of strategic planning? If so, the key goals of Covid-19 would be to spread, replicate and kill expeditiously. And if that’s the case, race and ethnicity should not matter. But, if Covid […]
Banking institutions should apply an “Equity Eye” to ensure their policies, practices and procedures are not contributing to community inequity and perpetuating racially disparate outcomes as they distribute SBA Covid Relief Loans.
According to the 2018 McKinsey Report, “Delivering through Diversity,” the consulting firm discovered that the more diverse (defined as a greater proportion of women and racially ethnic make up in the leadership of large companies) the executive team, the better their financial performance. The methodology of the study included analyzing […]
Racial inequities did not occur by accident. Instead they were deliberately created and sustained over time, and their compounding and reinforcing effects evolved into a systemic process of allocating resources to one racial group, over other racial groups. Unfortunately, these inequities will not close or disappear naturally. Research driven tools […]
We are all biased and if we are blind to our biases, the consequences are critical to the quality of interactions with others and decision-making. Managers may over discipline and unconsciously promote others. Non-managers may discover increasing conflicts with colleagues who are different. By gaining awareness and learning to manage […]
Every person on your team has views of the world and the people in it that are a direct result of their social upbringing. Unless you spend time immersed in other cultures, it’s difficult to see your own cultural norms and understand other’s cultural differences. From learning how to listen […]