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HUNT SCANLON MEDIA 2021 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Recruiting Building a Balanced And Diverse Workforce In Sponsorship With INSIDE THE REPORT: HUnt Scanlon HR/Diversity Power 65 Ranking TABLE OF CONTENTS About Hunt Scanlon Media . 3 Disruptive Index of Sponsors . 4 Index of Advertisers . 5 times demand Foreword . 7 Executive Summary . 9 brilliant leaders. Industry Viewpoints . 56 At Acertitude, we believe in the unstoppable power of brilliant people at work – their ability to lead during crisis, to empower a whole team, and to reshape an entire business for good. So our focus is singular: finding the right individual for the right role at the right time, so that they can unleash their true potential, and yours. Unleash your potential: Copyright 2021 Hunt Scanlon Media LLC. All rights reserved. acertitude.com 1 INDUSTRY VIEWPOINTS Approaching Diversity and Inclusion as a Comprehensive Cultural Change Keri Gavin, Partner & Practice Leader of Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Hanold Associates . 58 5 Ways to Build Inclusion Throughout Your Organization Judith M . von Seldeneck, Founder & Chair and Dale E . Jones, CEO Diversified Search Group . 60 Diversity-Equity-Inclusion & Executive Search: Be the Change You Want to See Tory Clarke, Co-Founder & Managing Partner Bridge Partners . 63 Case Study: How One Higher Education Institution is Changing the Diversity Game Jennifer Muller, Managing Partner Academic & Career Executive Search (ACES) . 67 Who’s Really The New Business Imperative: Diversity & Inclusion Elisa Leary, Managing Director and Head of DEI On Board? Practice and Annette Krassner, CEO Glocap Search . 72 Diversity of Thought: Mitigating Unconscious Bias and Driving Diversity for Innovation in a Changed World Rebecca Kapphahn, Executive Vice President/Managing Principal Cejka Search . 75 Strengthening the Foundation: Creating an Inclusive Environment for New Leaders Dr . Jay Lemons, President and Dr . Shirley Robinson Pippins, Senior Consultant Academic Search . 78 Read the findings of our latest report here: www.egonzehnder.com/gbdt 2 ABOUT HUNT SCANLON MEDIA Hunt Scanlon Media is the most widely referenced, leadership and talent solutions consultants who single source for information in the human capital service them . sector . Our mission is to inform, engage, and Contact Information: connect you — the most avid members of the talent management community — with daily news and Scott A . Scanlon expert commentary . 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Relatively few, however, truly understand why How can organizations at varying levels of readiness it is so important – let alone how to move from intent take the next steps needed to create diverse, to action . Fewer still are improving an organization’s equitable and inclusive environments? racial literacy before building and bettering their That is the subject of this entire report . But allow us to respective DE&I capability . offer an overarching guiding principle: DE&I is not just At Hanold Associates we have long believed that about representation or getting diverse hires in the embracing DE&I is right from a moral perspective, door, it’s about building upon an organization’s racial good for business outcomes and great for cultural literacy . depth and richer learning environments . More and While many search firms stand ready and willing to more organizations are experiencing this reality, and identify and facilitate those key diverse hires that will over the last 10 years we have seen firsthand the likely be a revolving door unless the organization positive impact of taking DE&I seriously . embraces DE&I on a deeper level . Timely Wake-Up Calls Organizations will not experience the full benefits When COVID-19 rocked businesses seemingly of DE&I unless they have an incredibly healthy overnight, we saw many Chief HR Officers step up culture which has improved racial literacy, as well as and stand shoulder to shoulder with their CEOs organizational role models who are diverse . Such in a way we had never witnessed before . We also organizations strive for not only diverse representation saw CEOs who quickly realized their HR leaders but genuine attitudes, thoughtful policies and were totally unprepared for that level of a strategic, pervasive processes that support inclusion and crisis-fueled performance . belonging . Soon after that crisis hit, the world witnessed the Simply stated, when diversity, equity and inclusion shocking death of George Floyd, among other similar is properly woven into the organization’s culture, atrocities . This civil unrest quickly led to an enhanced representation will naturally take care of itself . If wave of intense efforts to diversify organizations, DE&I is a “nice” but separate program with little especially at the leadership levels . Specifically, accountability or shared responsibility across most organizations’ responses were to diversify the the organization, leaders will continue leave the leadership team ethnically or bring in new positions tremendous value and business impact of DE&I of leadership like Chief Diversity Officers (CDO), Chief unrealized . Inclusion Officers or Chief DE&I Officers . – Jason Hanold, CEO & Managing Partner Much like the pandemic tested the caliber of the Keri Gavin, Partner & Practice Leader of Global CHRO, recent civil unrest has tested the capability of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion the CDO . Further, many organizations were hit with Hanold Associates FOREWORD 8 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY