Barnes & Thornburg Diversity and Inclusion Annual Report

“GREATNESS BEGINS AT THE OTHER SIDE OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE” – Robin Sharma A YEAR OF TRANSFORMATION Someone recently asked me to describe 2018 relative to our diversity and inclusion platform in one word.

Without a moment’s hesitation I declared, “Transformative.” According to dictionary.com, “transformative” means “1. to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose; 2. to change in condition, nature, or character; convert.”

What it doesn’t mean perhaps best affirms why I made such a bold declaration, as the converse of this grand word is “ordinary,” “everyday,” and “uneventful.” Our 2018 was certainly none of those things.

Instead (and just by way of example), in the past 12 months we saw marked growth of women and minority representation in our partnership ranks. We also launched a new breed of firmwide diversity 4