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An innovative, field-tested framework for leaders and managers on how to create more diverse leadership and management teams. We need the strength that comes from diversity more now than we ever have in our collective memory. Without leadership teams that reflect the full range of humanity, for-profit and nonprofit organizations alike will find it more difficult to confront today’s challenges and are unlikely to thrive in the long term. But no two organizations have the same need for greater diversity in leadership nor the same path to achieving it. In Karen Brown shares the approach she has used to guide organizations from small nonprofits to the Global 500 on their journey to greater diversity in leadership and management. Her framework consists of four pillars: a lign diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts with business priorities b uild strong partnerships with stakeholders c ultivate a culture of role models d efine objectives and outcomes with data Readers will learn how to use the framework to identify and dismantle the barriers to greater leadership and management diversity in their organizations. What’s more, they will get practical advice on how to become inclusive leaders who create opportunities for everyone on their teams to learn, grow, and fulfill their potential.
List of contents
Introduction: A New Framework for Greater Diversity in Leadership
Chapter 1 Why Diversity Programs Don't Work—And What Does
The ABCD Framework
Chapter 2 Pillar A: How to Align Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Business Priorities
Chapter 3 Pillar B: How to Build Strong Partnerships with Stakeholders
Chapter 4 Pillar C: How to Cultivate a Culture with Role Models
Chapter 5 Pillar D: How to Define Objectives and Outcomes with Data
Using the ABCD Framework
Chapter 6 How to Use the ABCD Framework to Break Down Barriers
Chapter 7 How to Become an Inclusive Leader
Chapter 8 A Call to Action for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Leadership
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Karen Brown is a management consultant with 35 years of experience as a leader in corporate operations and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Her work has been published in Building and Encouraging Law Firm Diversity, Chicago Tribune, and Harvard Business Review.
