For HR professionals stepping into leadership positions related to DEI, these five lessons can ensure they're always focused ...

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs have been targeted by the Trump administration for undermining “meritocracy.” ...

This morning the U.S. Department of Education released the rest of K-12 federal funding that had been frozen since July 1.In ...

Explore the implications of recent federal actions and offer best practice guidance for organizations of all sizes.

As DEI initiatives face major setbacks, with 11% of companies likely to eliminate these programs by 2025 according to a January 2025 report by Resume.org, the pressure to conform is intensifying.

Of the 400 C-suite and HR leaders polled, 72% expect to build their DEI programs in the next 24 months, and 73% say DEI is more important now than it was five years ago.

Leaders who support DEI should also be at the table when AI tools are chosen and deployed. Your job is to ensure that AI reflects the company's values instead of replacing them.

In my 2023 book Reunion: Leadership and the Longing to Belong (Harper), I wrote the following, which rings even more valid as leaders face the Great DEI Dismantling: ...

CEOs that cut DEI initiatives miscalculated the market impact, incurring costly consequences in a business landscape where talent, consumers, and investors demand alignment with modern values.

Mr. Trump's executive order halting federal DEI programs revoked Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity, which was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965.

Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric. “Chaos is the goal,” Mike Gavin, president of Delta ...