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I’m thrilled Publishers Weekly included my forthcoming The Leaders You Need: How to Create Diverse Leadership Teams for a More Dynamic, Resilient Future in their upcoming Business and Economics longlist. Watch for pre-order information and the October 15th release.

Fall 2024 Adult Preview: Business & Economics The misdeeds of the über-wealthy, the histories of famous brands, strategies for avoiding burnout, and the nuts and bolts of starting a new business are among the topics covered in this season’s offerings.

Imagine having to give a keynote after this speaker, and , . Luckily for me, I had a terrific client. They were attentive to every detail of my preparation, enabling me to deliver a successful talk on organizational strength through . There are more companies and individuals than not, committed to and fairness. This includes our former .

The groundbreaking stories of Black .

‘No one had done it before him’: the groundbreaking stories of Black astronauts In documentary The Space Race, the people involved with major progress within Nasa talk about their highs and lows

The first Black Peanuts character received a backstory.

The first Black 'Peanuts' character finally gets his origin story in animated special The origin story of the first Black Peanuts character is streaming on Apple TV+.

I am privileged to be an advisory on the National Diversity Advisory Council of the American Red Cross. The emergency shortage continues as severe winter weather has further impacted the ability to rebuild the blood supply. Blood and platelet are urged to give now to help ensure lifesaving procedures are not delayed. Don’t wait – sign up to and share post: American Red Cross of Illinois
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Some favorite lines from Jamie Diamond at the World Economic Fourm.

“JPMorgan’s approach mimics that of any other line of business, requiring that its leads are fanatic about the details, facts, and analysis. Your heart can be in the right place, but if you don’t really think about the ex*****on stuff, you’re gonna fail.”

He noted JPMorgan’s HR department bragging some years ago about the firm’s progress, but fusing all groups. (Think: , , , .) He responded, “Don’t lump it together. Come back and show me the numbers by VPs, EDs [executive directors], MDs [managing directors], and and .”

They did. Women? Excellent. Hispanic? Excellent. LGBT? Excellent. Asian American? Excellent. Black? Average. Worse still, the had been at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for years. “I said, ‘That’s not . We don’t want to be average.’”

It was a turning point for the bank, which set up a separate effort focused on Black employees that was further necessitated when two he brought to the bank departed.

The first jumped ship when he was passed for from ED to MD for the third time. The other was a managing director who was skipped over for a promotion in middle markets—but later rehired.

Concerning the first, Dimon sent queries as to why the ED hadn’t been elevated to MD and was told he didn’t have the platform. “I said, ‘What the hell does that mean?’” It meant the ED’s role wasn’t big enough—meaning, he didn’t have enough direct reports—to warrant the higher position. “I’d never heard the word ‘platform’ used except when we were promoting a Black person,” Dimon said. It lit a spark. For all the roughly 500 EDs at the bank, he requested that the company track whether they had a platform and were on track for a promotion, according to their boss and their boss’s boss.

Being clear, he caveated that he’s not mandating that managers promote Black EDs. “That’s not what I’m doing. [Rather], are we honest? Do we talk about it? And if they don’t have a platform, we’ve gotta tell them.” Today, the bank tracks how all employees are moving up and through the company and who and how they’re bringing candidates into the firm externally.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says bank isn't intimidated by DEI backlash "I'm not woke,” he emphasized.

To earn and build , you have to .

Adidas’s New CEO Did Something ‘Crazy’ When He Joined the Company. It’s a Brilliant Lesson in Emotional Intelligence With a simple yet unusual move, Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden shows how to earn respect and build trust with your people.

How the campaign is tackling .

How the Ethnicity Pay Gap Campaign is tackling salary inequity On Ethnicity Pay Gap Day, campaign founder Dianne Greyson enters the BBC's Executive Lounge to talk about the savvy strategy to tackle salary disparity around the globe.

These 2 iconic brands are doubling down on their efforts.

These 2 iconic large companies are doubling down on their equity efforts As two of the most recognizable brands in the country, Aflac and PayPal continue to burnish their reputation by pushing for equity—in health and at work.

Can DEI truly have an impact on business outcomes? We had a conversation with Karen Brown, Founder & Managing Director of Bridge Arrow where she shared her valuable insights on ‘DEI done right.’

Karen has dedicated the past 20 years of her professional career to designing and activating DEI strategies that are tied to meaningful, measurable business results. According to her, this approach is best for organizational performance and it's actually the best way to truly achieve diversity, equity and inclusion.

To see the full conversation we had with Karen, visit: p3mediaworks.com/blog

Join me on Jennifer Brown Consulting's Community Call featuring an incredible lineup of JBC Consultants. We'll be discussing the positives and negatives of 2023, what trends we expect for 2024, and how we can continue to create and in everywhere.

This special 90 minute event, happening Thursday December 14th at 12PM ET, is one you won't want to miss! Bring your thoughts, experiences, and questions as we reflect on how far we've come, and where we need to go in 2024. We hope to see you there! Register here:

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Marriott International has agreed to partner with The Neu Project from Google’s Experience Institute to make its large-scale events and meetings more to attendees. They will provide dedicated quiet rooms to give attendees a break from sensory overload and recover from . It will also make real-time, available for its main stage presentations at all of its larger events -- those consisting of more than 250 attendees -- worldwide.

While and other neuro-inclusive practices have started to spread across the conference and events sectors, is reportedly the first in the sector to focus on making its events more .

Marriott works with Google to make its events more neuroinclusive for attendees Large-scale events hosted by the hotel chain will now have accessibility measures like quiet rooms and real-time captioning to accommodate attendees in the neurodivergent community.

Investors often misperceive—and therefore overlook—an group that’s a growing powerhouse in the US. The AAPI community has driven some of the world’s most successful . LinkedIn, Yahoo!, YouTube, and Zoom all have AAPI or .

Breaking Down Funding Barriers for Asian American and Pacific Islander Entrepreneurs Investors often misperceive—and therefore overlook—an ethnic group that’s a growing economic powerhouse in the US.

Discrimination experiences shape most Asian Americans’ lives. Today, 57% of adults in the U.S. see against Asian Americans as a major problem. And 63% say too little attention is paid to and issues concerning .

For many, experiences with discrimination are not just single events, but instead come in overlapping forms.
— Discrimination in daily life
— The ‘forever foreigner’
— The ‘model minority’ stereotype
— Discrimination during COVID-19

Discrimination Experiences Shape Most Asian Americans’ Lives Most Asian adults in the U.S. have been treated as a foreigner or experienced incidents where people assume they are a "model minority."

92%. The percentage of adults in Sweden who favor allowing and ***an people to . The same share in Indonesia oppose this.

How people around the world view same-sex marriage Among the 32 places surveyed, support for legal same-sex marriage is highest in Sweden, where 92% of adults favor it, and lowest in Nigeria, where only 2% back it.

Skills pay bills. Switching from degree-based hiring to skills-based will improve employers' . “Access and aptitude are never equal,” former Ginni Rometty said, “Where you start should not determine where you end."

Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty doubles down on skills over degrees to get ‘more and more people better jobs’ Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty emphasizes the importance of vulnerability, the human touch in leadership, and providing economic opportunities for all.

Senate Bill 54, in California. A move to push for more diversity-related disclosures from firms. SB 54 requires firms headquartered or operating significantly in to annually report the number of they in and disclose data about their , , , , and status. They must also report the dollar amount given to them each year.

California bill requires VC firms to disclose investments’ diversity data The new legislation mandates venture capital firms operating in California to release annual reports regarding the diversity of the founders they back.

Only 8 , including just 1 , hold creative director positions in Vogue Business Index's top 30 brands. So why are so many ?

Why are so many creative directors white men? Industry observers have called out the sameness of luxury’s creative directors in light of recent appointments that place white men in top positions. Is fashion backsliding?

The world’s first and only all-Indigenous agency.

The First All-Indigenous Modeling Agency What to know about the Supernaturals, the first and only all-Indigenous modeling agency in the world.

Four out of five want to be promoted in the next year but are still more likely to be passed over for than their counterparts. The found that only 87 women and only 73 are promoted from their entry-level positions to managerial ones out of 100 who receive similar promotions. This disparity often takes women off of C-suite paths early on in their careers.

It's not the "glass ceiling" holding women back at work, new analysis finds Women still lag men in corporate leadership roles. But the roadblocks start early in their careers, McKinsey and Lean In found in a new report.

Why is country still resistant to ? “It’s important for , especially artists, to use the space of and they have to talk about what’s wrong with the industry. I hope I’m not the only one.”

‘Dangerous gatekeeping’: why is country music still resistant to diversity? Grammy-winning star Maren Morris has announced she is leaving the genre that made her famous due to bigotry revealing an industry still stuck in the past

Fearless Fund, the firm targeted by anti-affirmative action activist Edward Blum, can continue to award grants to after a declined to issue an injunction. The judge said that the grants fall under requirements for charitable giving. The decision could ease pressure on other corporate efforts.

Judge allows grant program for Black female entrepreneurs to continue A court refused to issue an injunction to bar an Atlanta firm from giving funds to these businesses.

Is it appropriation or not?

Should we borrow from other cultures? Of course we should, just as we always have | Yascha Mounk Cultural appropriation is the bogeyman of our time. Let’s celebrate the joy of cross-pollination

Every mother is . Every is .

It’s time to modernize conception of what stay-at-home means—and to stop pitting who work professionally against those who don’t. Dismantle the old static titles because there is so much gray in between. Show the vast spectrum of choices for and .

American Mothers On Pause — Mother Untitled Fielded by Proof Insights on behalf of Mother Untitled A study of stay-at-home motherhood in 2023 / A study of stay-at-home motherhood in 2023 / VIEW THE FULL REPORT It’s time to bring stay-at-home mothers into the conversation. When a college-educated woman leaves or downshifts her paid job to le...

Women's knowledge of the stock market is growing, according to new J.P. Morgan . The study found the trend was especially strong among : 68% of and 62% of and women say they know more about the than they did five years ago. Overall, women are sticking with the stock market; 83% say they plan on at least the same amount this year as they did last year, versus 74% of .

J.P. Morgan: Women of color investors are on the rise According to a survey, 83% of them are investing the same or more than they were last year.

. As mandates expose more relationships, new data shows that is a defense against sexual on the job. Of women who work remotely, 5% experienced in the past three years compared to 12% of who work in-person.

Remote work may help decrease sexual assault and harassment, poll finds In-person employees are more than twice as likely to experience sexual harassment at work compared to remote employees, a new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll shows.

New found that and people were much more likely to be called aggressive than their and colleagues. White workers, meanwhile, were more likely to hear that they were easy to work with than any other race. Women in general are called helpful and friendly more than , who are more often tagged as and .

The study then drew a line between low-quality — personality-based comments, unactionable suggestions and unclear goals — and rates.

Low-Quality Feedback Drives Underrepresented Workers to Look for New Jobs Women and people of color report getting less helpful performance reviews than White men

The first. Journalist Chioma Nnadi, who currently runs Vogue's U.S. website, will replace Edward Enninful as head of British Vogue when he exits the role in early October. Nnadi will be the first to occupy the magazine’s top spot, which will be renamed “head of content.”

Chioma Nnadi to replace Edward Enninful as head of British Vogue Exclusive: London-born editor of Vogue’s US website to become first Black female head of the fashion title

With just a year away, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reintroduced a bill yesterday that would reserve one-third of all positions for . Women currently occupy 15% of India's .

Modi Pushes Law on More Women Legislators Before National Polls Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government resurrected a long-pending bill to reserve a third of lawmakers’ seats for women, an important constituency for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party heading into next year’s national elections.

Executive for has increased over the last three years. Public companies have seen a far greater consistent year-to-year increase in comparison with privately backed companies in total averages of diverse . The industry leads the way with 62.5% of diverse placements. Companies are paying new diverse executive hires 7.8% higher total average compensation than non-diverse executive hires. The (PE) and (VC) sectors are still falling behind in diverse . PE and VC-backed companies are paying new diverse executive hires 11.2% less total average compensation than non-diverse executive hires. Additionally, these same companies paid new diverse CEO hires 5.2% less than non-diverse hires in the last three years.

ON Partners Reports Public Companies are Leading the Charge in Diversity Hiring Practices ON Partners Talent Intelligence Report reveals tech industry leads the way with 62.5% of diverse executive placements...