Organizational Culture

February 19, 2021

A Leader’s Guide: Finding and Keeping Your Next Chief Diversity Officer

A guide on how to think about hiring a Chief Diversity Officer, what questions to ask yourself and your organization, and what are the different types of roles your CDO can play. Includes data from companies that have implemented this.
February 19, 2021

What is a Chief Diversity Officer and Why Does Your Company Need One?

Making the argument for why hiring a Chief Diversity Officer can be beneficial to your organization in helping to achieve diversity, equity, and inclusion goals
February 19, 2021

Commentary: Chief diversity officers should be more than figureheads

Understanding why Chief Diversity Officers (CDOs) must be in roles that are integrated fully into companies and have buy-in and collaboration with executive level staff
February 19, 2021

Why Chief Diversity Officers Often Fail

“It’s important to remember that changing work culture takes time-one person can only move the needle but so much.”
February 19, 2021

Hiring a Chief Diversity Officer Won’t Fix Your Racist Company Culture

Racial equity must be a top priority for everyone, incorporated into how a company hires, makes decisions, and approaches all of its objectives.
February 19, 2021

It’s Performance Management Season: Time for Some Inclusion Nudges

Explaining how unconscious bias can affect the way that performance is measured across companies and emphasizing the need to address biases ahead of time
February 19, 2021

Diversity Accountability Requires More Than Numbers

Companies should look beyond quantitative measures when looking at diversity metrics and make sure to look at qualitative factors-including key behavioral changes that can create cultural shifts.
February 19, 2021

Taking Steps to Eliminate Racism in the Workplace

Outlines steps that companies can take to identify and reduce microaggressions, make staff training useful, and create space for difficult conversations
February 19, 2021

White Supremacy Culture in Professional Spaces is Toxic – To Dismantle It, We Must First Be Willing To Name It!

A fundraising professional shares how white supremacy culture can show up in the nonprofit sector in ways that we may not even realize – a sense of urgency, tokenism, of POC staff, etc.
February 19, 2021

Who Will Lead Community Development Corporations?

The community development world has a racial representation problem, especially in its top leadership.
February 19, 2021

The Pipeline Isn’t the Problem

Entrepreneur and CEO John Rice about what companies – tech companies in particular – must do to combat what he terms �third-degree racism.� (Podcast transcript)
February 19, 2021

How to Challenge White Supremacy through Rest

SHIFT explains how to understand the connection between capitalism, racism, and rest and how to apply that lens to staff well-being and workplace culture