What DEI gets wrong — and how to do it right | Paolo Gaudiano

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🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Social entrepreneur Paolo Gaudiano explains why many companies are taking the wrong approach to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives — by overly focusing on one thing. To avoid backlash and costly turnover, he shows the key change leaders can make to create thriving, equitable workplaces while also increasing profits.

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0:16.5	For a good while there, diversity, equity, and inclusion at the workplace or other organizations
0:21.6	were ideas that did not attract controversy or
0:24.4	backlash. But times and the political environment have changed. Social
0:29.8	entrepreneur Paolo Godiano takes on this challenge to DEI head on by unpacking what seems to ring
0:36.4	hollow in the efforts merely to diversify workplaces without making the eye part of
0:42.0	DEI at the forefront after a short break.
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