Diversity Inc

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Friday, February 7, 2020 - 4:14pm
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The Failed Promise of a Billion Dollar Business

Between 2014 and 2016 Google Spet $265 million dollars to diversify their workforce, but their percentage of black employees remains at 2%.  On Feburaary 21st at 10am on Radiozine, Suzanne LaGrande talks to

award winning journalist, professor at New York University, and author of the recently published book, Diversity Inc, The Failed Promise of a Billion Dollar Business.

 

Some of the topics discussed in the interview include:

 

How the call for greater diversity and inclusion in public and private workplaces became a billion dollar business.

 

Why these programs have overwhelming failed to make necessary changes in workplace diversity

 

The actual solutions that would create real inclusion and true diversity.