DEI: The Importance of Balancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Talent and Culture | Fitzgerald on DEI

The Big Themes:


What it takes to be great: companies must strongly consider
incorporating DEI initiatives into their businesses but must be
careful not to let the focus on talent and culture fall by the
wayside.

Go back to the "foundational" piece: The "big initiative" of
today's companies should be addressing exactly what the
priorities are.

Attract talent, but know how to retain it: A strong focus on
acquiring talent, and a lack of thought about retaining talent,
had created a "gap that has really widened in the last few
years."



The Big Quote: "What I'm hearing and what I'm seeing in the
market today is that DEiI is the only focus. Now, I'm not saying
that across the board, I'm just saying generalities. There are
great companies that have been corrupted into a single focus over
the last couple of years... but it's one of three priorities. It
needs to be one of three priorities. It can't be the only
priority. And I think what I'm hearing from a lot of my friends
in the big companies...they overhired to meet these DEI agendas.
And now, they're laying off some of these people that they hired
because they didn't focus on the other two priorities: culture
and talent. You have to have all three to make, you know, to make
a great hire."


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