As an entrepreneur, Ms Liu founded The Dream Collective in 2012 because she was confronted by the lack of leadership development opportunities for young women in the workplace. She says Australian corporate leaders are doing it wrong, and need to get better at “walking the talk”. Research shows that for every $10 invested into senior…
The Turnbull government empowered by an angry backbench has rejected a Human Rights Commission-led campaign for racial and cultural diversity targets to be pushed on corporate Australia. The commission’s July 2016 reform blueprint, Leading for Change,recommended that organisations consider “sending signals on cultural diversity” by collecting data on the cultural backgrounds of employees in addition…
Click To Watch Video Oscar contender Mark Ruffalo announced on Twitter that he will be going to the Academy Awards ceremony after saying earlier he was considering skipping the event over lack of diversity among the nominees. Ruffalo, who is white, is a best supporting actor nominee for playing an investigative journalist in Catholic Church…
Companies will feature in full-page ads and are among 154 of Australia’s biggest brand names calling for parliament to act on marriage equality. Corporate giants McDonald’s, Twitter and the big four banks are among 154 of the nation’s biggest household brands to declare their support for same-sex marriage. The companies, also including Telstra and Airbnb,…
“Diversity is strength – and the world’s greatest fire department will grow even stronger when it more closely resembles the city it serves.” -Mayor Bill de Blasio, June 2, 2015 On June 2, 2015 Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law Intro. 0579-A, allowing for greater transparency into the New York City Fire Department application…
At some point we will all have to start asking this question. At the AHRI Diversity and Inclusion Conference we have seen a the discussion still focus on legacy items where we still silo Gender Diversity as a ‘Women Can” program. Can we not start knocking down this barrier and understand that its Gender we…
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Peter Wilson opened the conference referencing that AHRI still has a long way to go to understand the process of moving forward. “Humour being a powerful weapon to focus on Diversity and Inclusion over all” Peter stated.
Great presentation on flipping the perception on Able versus Disabled Wrong or right …. We still have to make the decisions about how the world functions as the work age ratio changes and we have less working people to support the non working, unemployable or disabled portions of our population. As we ponder productivity…