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How Great Leaders Approach Diversity Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
By Allan Schweyer, Senior Executive Consultant
Over the past 30+ years, I’ve observed that great leaders help each employee, manager, and colleague identify known and hidden biases that might lead to acts of discrimination, microaggression, or exclusion. The best leaders exhibit honesty and courage by going beyond rote training modules to educate everyone in the historic fact of systemic racism; not to shame the majority but to build perspective and empathy. This remains rare, however. So how do leaders and organizations do it? You’ve probably seen it first hand: leadership sets the climate of transparency and vulnerability in the organization (or lack thereof). Diversity flows naturally from proactive and non-discriminatory hiring practices driven by leadership that understands the business