In her more than 20 years in the legal industry, she has practiced and held key positions at other large law firms, often working
on diversity initiatives.
In the meantime, other
issues diversity initiatives address should be considered seriously and attention must also be paid to ensuring work environments are welcoming to and accepting of minorities already under their employ.
Seeing your company touting
diversity initiatives rather than battling a public relations nightmare can convince an employee to give their employer the benefit of the doubt.
Many large law firms
create diversity initiatives to promote the success of its women and minority attorneys and encourage equal opportunity.
It makes these groups responsible for various activities that are common to
many diversity initiatives (e.g., recruitment, training, mentoring, monitoring work assignments).
Every
failing diversity initiative must be treated with the same level of urgency and scrutiny if the tech industry is to become more inclusive and diverse.
Marissa is a successful banking and finance lawyer at Simpson Thacher and has also spearheaded a number of
diversity initiatives at the firm.
United States About Blog COTAD aims to promote a diverse workforce and meet society's occupational needs through aligning
diversity initiatives with key stakeholders to ensure occupational therapy services are provided to all people by having a workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve.
Posters also sought out explicit affirmation of school
diversity initiatives as a concrete measure of school safety for LGBT students.
This advocacy groupis a membership based organization aimed at strengthening
supplier diversity initiatives of companies within the financial services industry.
University of Vermont students and Black Lives Matter activists are demanding top administrators resign over the college's failure to meet student demands
for diversity initiatives, including the installation of BLM flags on campus.
Finally, the LLD is creating language supporting
diversity initiatives in law firms, which can be used by LLD signatories when engaging law firms.
Actively seeking to
implement diversity initiatives helps to drive away ignorance not only within a company, but also within the world the company exists in.
By throwing millions at
various diversity initiatives, university administrators propitiate the idols of diversity and tolerance while contributing to a climate that actively undermines the ability of students and faculty alike to engage in free speech and debate in an atmosphere of respect and civility.
Nicola currently leads the Wragge & Co LLP gender
diversity initiative aimed at bringing women through to partnership and management roles.
Prior to Pahara, she served as the senior associate director of organizational learning for Uncommon Schools, where she led organizational -
wide diversity initiatives and directed the Summer Teaching Fellowship, a program geared towards increasing the diversity of Uncommon's teaching staffs.
Indeed, the firm — whose
diversity initiatives include a reverse mentoring system and gender targets — reveals 69 % of those in its lower pay quartile are women.
LEGAL LEADERS FOR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION (LLD) is a group of Canadian General Counsel from coast to coast who have declared their support and commitment for creating a more inclusive legal profession as well as supporting
diversity initiatives within our organizations.
There were various
diversity initiatives by Coca - Cola Amatil and Diageo, plus other stuff that fascinates me a few years into the alcohol industry, but would no doubt bore you senseless, such as chains cutting margins and whisky companies putting ASX holds on themselves.
Previously, she
led diversity initiatives at the Human Rights Campaign and was the first transgender person to lead a national LGBT organization as exective director of OutServe - SLDN.
Ava DuVernay - producer, writer, director and pioneer - launches a
new diversity initiative for entertainment industry at a time where the industry is showing signs of real change for the first time.
The Purdue Veterinary Medicine Office of
Diversity Initiatives helps the College of Veterinary Medicine address issues of diversity, intercultural communication, and inclusiveness that are at the forefront of higher education.
On the other hand, if recruiters are seeking profile traits of certain employees and not evaluating the applicants on their own merits, will that adversely
affect diversity initiatives or the personality varieties that contribute to the culture of the workplace.
Members of the LLD have met with leaders and managing partners of law firms including the largest national law firms to
discuss diversity initiatives within law firms and to stress the importance of actions to create a more inclusive legal profession.
With the support of industry leadership, REAP is widely acknowledged to be the most
successful diversity initiative in the commercial real estate industry.
Companies in Silicon Valley and beyond are taking note, including Pinterest, which took inspiration from the National Football League for its
latest diversity initiatives.
Unlike
previous diversity initiatives, this one has some teeth: signatories vow that they will give more business to diverse firms and «end or limit» their relationships with firms «whose performance consistently evidences a lack of meaningful interest in being diverse.»
Indeed, the commission's report notes that more could be done to encourage «ordinary» applicants: those in the upper echelons of society already have an advantage;
diversity initiatives focus on the least privileged; but those in the middle are being neglected.