Diversity Management, News and Updates
The gaming industry is poised to be the next boom industry in American business. In 2018, video game revenue reached a new high of $43.8 billion, according to Entertainment Software Association and The NPD Group. Like many of the United States’ most profitable enterprises, the gaming industry is overly saturated…
For more than 50 years, Northwest Center in Seattle has been the middleman for so many great working relationships between businesses and people with disabilities. Attitudes about people with disabilities were very different in 1965. The low expectation for people with disabilities prevented families from pushing limits in education and…
Originally Published by Mastercard Co-hosted by the Aspen Institute and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, the new convening will examine opportunities to advance equitable and sustainable economic growth. At a time of rapid technological change, there is a pressing need to address how the digital economy can be put…
The number of women working in tech positions is growing, according to the 2019 Top Companies for Women Technologists Insights Report by AnitaB.org. AnitaB.org is a nonprofit that works to increase representation of women working in tech, and their annual report serves as a benchmark on how the industry is…
The small but active Orthodox Jewish community of Champaign-Urbana, Ill., had a problem: The area did not have the necessary infrastructure to accommodate the observant religious community during its celebration of Shabbat. Many Orthodox families were not sending their children to the local University of Illinois, and those Orthodox Jewish…
TD Bank (No. 19 on DiversityInc’s Top 50 List) announced this month that they are launching a new program with iRelaunch to help individuals who have taken career breaks re-enter the workplace at TD’s Commercial Bank. iRelaunch is a third-party program that helps companies recruit and retrain people who have…
The Harvard Business Review (HBR) conducted a study that found even seemingly “inclusive” workplaces still leave women of color in interdependent work environments feeling isolated. The idea from the study, HBR said, came out of an episode of HBR’s “Women at Work” podcast, which discussed forging “sisterhood” relationships at work…
Mastercard (No. 8 on DiversityInc’s Top 50 List), now has its next round of intakes to their “Relaunch Your Career” program open. The program, which the company launched abroad in 2017, has grown to have over 40 participants across 14 different countries. The 16-week-long program is aimed at helping mid-career…
Originally published on Humana Humana’s commitment to Inclusion & Diversity has created a workplace where every associate can feel welcome and safe to be their authentic selves, to maximize their potential and bring their A-game to work every day. Our inclusive culture, cultivated by Inclusion & Diversity Days held every…
Juanita Harris, Assistant Vice President on the Senior Legal Counsel of AT&T (no. 1 on 2019 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) just received the National Bar Association Women Lawyers Division’s Outstanding Corporate Counsel award. AT&T will ascend to DiversityInc’s Top 50 Hall of Fame (HoF). The Women Lawyers Division…