Trail blazers : how top business leaders are accelerating results through inclusion and diversity

Make diversity your competitive advantage To reap the full benefits of diversity and inclusion, today's forward thinking companies look past "diversity" training towards a more comprehensive, holistic business approach. These leaders incorporate diversity and inclusion into every aspect of business culture, employee engagement, talent management and market penetration. Trailblazers reveals the practices, metrics and research, as well as the anecdotal evidence, for building and sustaining workplace cultures that make strategic diversity and inclusion a business necessity. Focusing on concrete actions you can implement immediately, this insider guide profiles the best practices award-winning companies have used on a sustained basis to transform their organizations. Captures insights and best practices from the most effective Chief Diversity Officers, several of which are determined by the Diversity Inc Top 50 Companies for Diversity Companies profiled include IBM, Dell, Verizon, Merck and Co, Sodexo, Verizon, Andrews Kurth, The Coca-Cola Company, American Airlines, Citi, Ford, Shell and Pitney Bowes Covers everything from how to use employee resource groups to help target consumers and forge tighter client relationships; from talent optimization, leadership development and retention, to increasing middle management engagement and the skill-sets required for effective Chief Diversity Officers as true business partners and more Trailblazers gives you an in-depth view from the inside out of which practical solutions make diversity and inclusion efforts a systemic and winning way of doing business for today's top-performing companies.

Make diversity your competitive advantage

To reap the full benefits of diversity and inclusion, today's forward thinking companies look past "diversity" training towards a more comprehensive, holistic business approach. These leaders incorporate diversity and inclusion into every aspect of business culture, employee engagement, talent management and market penetration.

Trailblazers reveals the practices, metrics and research, as well as the anecdotal evidence, for building and sustaining workplace cultures that make strategic diversity and inclusion a business necessity. Focusing on concrete actions you can implement immediately, this insider guide profiles the best practices award-winning companies have used on a sustained basis to transform their organizations.

• Captures insights and best practices from the most effective Chief Diversity Officers, several of which are determined by the Diversity Inc Top 50 Companies for Diversity
• Companies profiled include IBM, Dell, Verizon, Merck and Co, Sodexo, Verizon, Andrews Kurth, The Coca-Cola Company, American Airlines, Citi, Ford, Shell and Pitney Bowes
• Covers everything from how to use employee resource groups to help target consumers and forge tighter client relationships; from talent optimization, leadership development and retention, to increasing middle management engagement and the skill-sets required for effective Chief Diversity Officers as true business partners and more

Trailblazers gives you an in-depth view from the inside out of which practical solutions make diversity and inclusion efforts a systemic and winning way of doing business for today's top-performing companies.

Praise for Trailblazers

“Trailblazers presents a comprehensive and compelling framework for what it really takes for organizations and leaders to be successful in a multicultural world.”
—Howard Putnam, former CEO, Southwest Airlines

“This book is truly a ‘keeper’ for business leaders who want their organizations to be on the cutting edge of diversity and inclusion strategies and, most importantly, achieve meaningful results.”
—Claudette J. Whiting, former head of diversity and inclusion for Microsoft and DuPont

“Lenora and Redia go beyond the business case for diversity and inclusion. Trailblazers provides strong evidence and best practices that clearly integrate diversity and inclusion into successful leadership and business success.”
—Frank J. McCloskey, Vice President, Diversity, Georgia Power

“Trailblazers’ results-producing approaches from top corporations gives clear and compelling guidance to all those who are working to leverage diversity’s potential and create environments where talent thrives for the good of all.”
—Anita Rowe, PhD, Partner, Gardenswartz & Rowe, and coauthor, Managing Diversity: A Complete Desk Reference and Planning Guide

“Trailblazers is an impressive compilation of diversity and inclusion advice from some of the most admired companies in the world. Using real-time business examples, Trailblazers does an outstanding job of defining diversity and inclusion as a business imperative.”
—H. Joseph Machicote, Vice President, Talent Management & HR Services, Lance, Inc.

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