It can be right there in front of you in a photo and you can still miss it completely.
When you show a picture online publicly of your entire leadership team and there are
Zero Women at a table full of Men,
What does this tell the females on your team currently?
Growth opportunities?
Not so much... don't even bother.
Your customers?
If they want to speak to a manager these are their only choices?
Culture?
We can only make assumptions.
Your employee retention and profitability?
I can imagine they are stagnant other than recent economic influences that none of us created.
Also adding, by not having diversity of perspective, what is missing with your people, your profitability and your clients?
If everyone in the room looks and sounds like you, we can guarantee you're leaving opportunities on the table and settling for less than what could be possible. The data doesn't lie.
I'm curious when the #OEMs will step in. Because...#DEI.
As Ruth Bader Ginsburg so eloquently stated, "Women should be at the table where decisions are being made."
It's July 2021, not 1961...We can, we must do better.
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