By Luke Visconti, CEO of Fair360, formerly DiversityInc
Over the last year we’ve seen how corporate influence and leadership was exerted in Missouri and Indiana. In the case of Indiana, CEOs of both Cummins and Eli Lilly and Company (Fair360, formerly DiversityInc Top 50 companies) were very clear that Governor Pence’s anti-gay legislation was detrimental to their ability to recruit the best and brightest. That leadership was crucial to getting the governor to reverse course.
In the case of Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, Ameren, on our top utilities list, provided some leadership – but the rest of the corporations in the state were silent as the greatest malfeasance of local and state government since the civil rights era occurred.
