Q: I’ve been giving our current diversity advisory council some thought, and it prompted a question that I’d like to get your perspective on. Have you seen companies utilize their resource-group leaders as diversity advisory-council members
A:Asresource groupshave matured, they have literally earned a place at the table. That table, increasingly, is theexecutive diversity council. [Watch our diversity web seminar on resource groups for insights on the growing importance of these groups.]
We’ve heard from a number of companies that they are creating rotational spots on their executive diversity councils for one to three resource-group leaders. These spots usually last two years (although we’ve seen one- to four-year terms), and in some cases, the resource-groupleaders are not voting members of the councils. When executive compensation is directly tied to company-wide diversity goals set by the council, the resource-group leaders usually are excluded from that.For more on resource-group leadership and selection, readFair360, formerly DiversityInc’s exclusive resource-group research.
