by Amy Tolbert | Aug 18, 2018 | Gender Diversity, Multicultural Diversity
Do you champion an inclusive work culture, so employees feel appreciated and valued? Are you fully utilizing your people talent, in order to capitalize on a diverse talent pool? Does your organizational culture reward innovation, thereby driving motivation and...
by Amy Tolbert | Aug 18, 2018 | Gender Diversity, Leadership Development
Do you champion women leaders? The number is certainly trending downward, but women never held a large percentage of leadership roles, in the first place. As of 2018, only 4.8% of Fortune 500 companies are led by women – down from 6.4% in 2017 [1]. The S&P...
by Amy Tolbert | Jul 14, 2016 | Gender Diversity, Multicultural Diversity
ECCO International recently attended a panel discussion hosted by the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal Forum. The speakers came from the private and public sectors and consisted of three men and three women, three of whom were people of color. A few common...
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by Amy Tolbert | Jul 5, 2016 | Gender Diversity, Multicultural Diversity
Change is a messy business. The changes to incorporate diversity and inclusion into an organization can be even more so. The brutal fact is that about 70% of all change initiatives fail. Why? Because in most of the cases organizational-change failures are driven by …...
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by Amy Tolbert | Apr 13, 2016 | Gender Diversity
An organization’s board of directors is seldom a diverse group. In terms of inclusion, it is often filled with “people who know people.” The gender diversity facts speak for themselves. Women account for only 20% of all S&P 500 directors An average board of...
by Amy Tolbert | Apr 5, 2016 | Gender Diversity, Multicultural Diversity
We’ll tell you right now that we are not the bearer of diversity and inclusion good tidings. We come bearing disheartening news for women and people of color. First – the old news. We’ve already reported in a previous blog that, statistically speaking, women make...
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