In 2018, IBM’s Chief Diversity Officer Lindsay-Rae McIntyre left the company with plans to start a similar position at Microsoft. IBM, in turn, responded by taking the woman who ...

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Recently, I received a question from a contact on LinkedIn. She asked me whether I thought work-life balance was dead. My answer: I hope so!

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In Pixar's new animated short, Purl enters the office on her first day of work and quickly realizes she doesn't look or behave like the other employees. For starters...

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With ever-increasing demands at work for both mid-level and senior leaders, the ability to execute and get things done is a key driver of success. But it can ultimately become a ...

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When we think about creating a workplace culture that attracts and retains the best talent and supports employees from all communities, there are three important areas to focus on...

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Pinterest released its annual diversity report for 2018 Monday, and it followed the same theme as similar endeavors from other tech companies: We’ve made progress, but...

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Employees of Salesforce.com participated in its first LGBTQ pride march in India last year.
The Hyderabad Swabhimana Yatra (Pride Parade) drew close to 200 people, larger...

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With California becoming the first state to require women on corporate boards earlier this year, “gender parity” has been one of the most popular issues of 2018. This critical...

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Ellen McGirt stepped onstage at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Next Gen summit and began to tell hundreds of executives about her love of fly fishing.

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Career burnout is a relatively new type of stress. The concept is believed to have been first mentioned in 1974 by Herbert J. Freudenberger. According to a study...

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This morning Procter & Gamble acquired Walker & Company, Tristan Walker's startup focused on grooming products Bevel and Form. It was for an undisclosed amount...

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Barbara H. Whye is Intel’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer and VP of Human Resources for the Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group (TSCG), the company’s largest...

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There’s a lot of talk about diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the workplace, and with good reason. We’re inundated with real-life experiences around hot-button issues like...

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This summer was a learning experience for me. This is the first time in a number of years where my two oldest sons returned home to work and live. I must admit that I have not...

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Nicole will officially begin in her role at SVCF on December 19. She will be working closely with Greg Avis, SVCF’s Interim President and founding Board Chair, during the transition...

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To millennials, it’s less about gaining equal opportunity and more about holding to the conviction that working and collaborating with people from varied backgrounds will make a company smarter, richer...

Shellye Archambeau, the former CEO of MetricStream who sits on the boards of Verizon and Nordstrom. She has many smart insights on boardroom dynamics...

Healthcare disparities exist for African Americans, and there are several systemic contributors, including racism, class-ism, the prevalence of chronic disease, poor health...

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She envisioned a bridge that would connect the Black community across industries, socioeconomic groups and generations.

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Diversity also improves the bottom line. Companies with the most ethnically diverse executive teams are 33% more likely to outperform peers on profitability.

“What’s one initiative unique to your company that you’ve implemented in the past year that has had measurable results toward making people in your organization thrive..."

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Black and brown tech innovators, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts gathered at the SF Marriott Waterfront Hotel for access to resources, capital, and the latest advances...

The group reminisces about the event fondly; they ooze over having seen, for the first time, three women—three black women, three highly successful black women—onstage...

“The work-life balance question for me is really about letting go of unrealistic expectations of what it means to have it all,” explains Tiffany Dufu.

Are you dreaming of finding work abroad yet you have no clue where to start? Ever wanted to join the black travel movement by finding work in an exotic land half way around the world?

A recent Clutch survey found that close to 60% of new hires got their jobs within two months of searching. About 43% of recent hires were offered a position less than two weeks after starting to apply for jobs.

“You run the risk, when you’re growing this fast, that you bias toward speed versus quality,” Nilka Thomas, Lyft’s new VP of talent and inclusion, said. “Looking at the results for this year...

The White House reporting staffs of the largest and most prominent outlets, particularly newspapers and newswires, tend to be the least racially diverse of all.

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Last year, Ne-Yo finally made the leap into venture capital investing: his first deal, an investment in Holberton School, a two-year coding academy that trains full-stack engineers.

There’s a large body of work showing that perseverance may have a harmful downside. Not giving up can mean people persist even when they have nothing to gain.

Wealth management firms that prioritize diversity have higher pay, better growth in their client base and a more satisfied workforce...

We overlook one very key piece of the learning puzzle: proactively surrounding ourselves with people who will push us to succeed in unexpected ways...

UC President Janet Napolitano said ... that the university has already made great strides in hiring faculty from underrepresented groups...

According to the Public Relations Society of America, studies indicate that the industry struggles to attract black, Asian, and...

These people aren’t looking for someone to lecture them, they’re looking for someone who can help them build knowledge and skills as they work toward a valuable goal.

Companies are coming under increased scrutiny from media, customers, investors, and other stakeholders for organizational practices that used to be hidden from the public.

While it may not be an official part of your job description, helping a colleague is the kind thing to do and can be beneficial to your own productivity.

Despite so many companies discussing the need to improve the diversity of their workforce, their actual efforts have only led to...

If you want to create a diverse solution or product, you need a diverse team and leadership. So, how can companies reach those targets, create more diverse products...

Some two-thirds of companies monitor employees for e-mail infractions, and half have fired workers for those infractions, according to the SHRM.

The company has made an effort to right its wrongs from 2017, but it still has a long way to go.

Most of our networks are not as broad as we think they are. A diverse network should encompass more than just race and gender.

African Americans make up just 15 percent of the workforce employed by the City and County of San Francisco yet comprise 36 percent of its terminations, and a quarter of all employees...

Diversity fatigue is a real thing, but that’s not news to Twilio Global Head of Culture & Inclusion LaFawn Davis. What that does...

Wired Icon, Alexis Ohanian, Cofounder of Reddit and Initialized Capital nominates Jewel Burks, Cofounder of Partpic, now at Amazon.

VP and Head of Strategy & Business Development Anddria Clack-Rogers Varnado secured one of the largest tech M&As that the retail-based company has ever seen.

Entrepreneur Adeyemi Ajao just raised a lot of money to take on Silicon Valley and its proclivity for investing in technology-first innovations.

People think salary is the top factor that causes employee unhappiness, but it's more likely the workplace culture...

The company has made an effort to right its wrongs from 2017, but it still has a long way to go.

Bringing more black men into medicine will pay a multitude of dividends for patients and practitioners.

If you really want to increase employees’ health and well-being, focus on job control and social support.

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The company has made an effort to right its wrongs from 2017, but it still has a long way to go.

The lack of effective onboarding is a major reason why companies lose 17% of their new hires within the first three months and why 20% of all staff turnover occurs within 45 days...

Low unemployment combined with the newly reported wage growth indicates that the tide is turning to your benefit. The stage is set for you to experience a big win in a market where job openings outnumber...

Why employers should look for candidates who share a company's values and branding.

Rashaun Williams started his career as an investment banker and decided to jump head first into venture capital.

Racial disparities in health and health care providers persist in the U.S., and may go hand in hand.

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Top leaders at the firm will be measured on the progress of diversity goals on their scorecard, as they are with other business priorities.

Silicon Valley stalwart Andreessen Horowitz is launching a novel effort to boost diversity in technology: an exclusive new fund targeted at black celebrities, athletes and media figures.

Among African American business owners who responded, over half (57%) said their businesses were profitable yet challenges as...

Diversity and inclusion roles require expertise in three important areas: employee recruitment, retention and engagement.

The prognosis isn’t much different in Washington, where Rep. Barbara Lee is the only black member of Congress “between here and Los Angeles,” as the Oakland Democrat put it..

There are 4 types of pre-talk rituals to consider trying before you go onstage. While selecting yours, think about how you want to come across to your audience.

Facebook is inching toward increasing the diversity of its workforce but it still has a big problem: It's hiring very few black and Hispanic women.

It’s not news to anyone that there is a diversity problem in the U.S. workforce. Just 5% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women, and only six companies in the 500 have three female...

Ballots were still being counted for more than a week after election day, but her opponent, former state Sen. Mark Leno, conceded the contest.

African American workers are disappearing at major U.S. banks, all while men who run the biggest firms preach the value of diversity.

Less than 3.5% of all the 80,000 Certified Financial Planners (CFPs) in the United States are black or Latino...

The lack of workforce diversity and unconscious bias is a systemic problem in Silicon Valley. Tech companies are grappling with culture wars at shareholder meetings and lawsuits over this issue.

Intel released its 2017 annual report on diversity this week, showing that the company is ahead of its overall workforce goals, but still struggling to hire, retain, and promote black talent.

Among eight large firms, the portion of black employees in technical roles has risen less than a percentage point since 2014.

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If you’re feeling like you need a break from the day-to-day but can’t find the time for an extended vacation, here are four ways to add micro-vacations to your life.

As CEO of the consumer bank at JPMorgan Chase, Duckett is leading the company’s major retail expansion, which is to include 400 new branches in major markets across the country.

To develop the list, theBoardlist analyzed data to determine the top public and private tech companies who meet the minimum criteria of having...

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“You are really good at your job, but the problem is that the partners feel they don’t really know you,” his manager told him.

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Intel released its 2017 annual report on diversity this week, showing that the company is ahead of its overall workforce goals, but still struggling to hire, retain, and promote black talent.

EY's Americas Vice Chair and Southeast Region Managing Partner, talks about the importance of sponsors, his passion for early childhood education and why it's critical for Black...

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Lyft has brought on Nilka Thomas to join the company as its new VP of talent and inclusion. At Lyft, Thomas will be tasked with overseeing recruiting, inclusion, diversity and employee...

The ride-hailing company commits to a third-party audit of employees to ensure it doesn't have pay discrepancies based on race or gender. Uber has also promised pay equity.

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C-suite executives are vulnerable to career failure when they are in the midst of one of three common transition scenarios.

The tech industry says it's making a move to improve diversity, this time at the behest of Washington.

In plain terms, broadening the definition of diversity has allowed boards to claim inroads regarding experience-based diversity at the expense of demographic diversity.

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VP and Head of Strategy & Business Development Anddria Clack-Rogers Varnado secured one of the largest tech M&As that the retail-based company has ever seen.