A New Path to Inclusion: Building Fair Workplaces Amid Legal and Cultural Constraints (Webinar)

Over the past decade, the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion (now variously described as belonging, opportunity, culture, engagement, or otherwise) has experienced a wide pendulum swing. In the late 2010s and early 2020s, many organizations established or expanded inclusion efforts by hiring dedicated diversity professionals, creating initiatives to combat inequality in their workplaces, and making public commitments to advance fairness and justice.

In recent years, however, a series of headwinds — including lawsuits challenging the legality of diversity programs under civil rights law, and the actions of the current federal administration — have created pervasive anxiety and confusion.

Catalyst and the Meltzer Center have teamed up for the second year to share the solutions that HR, legal, and business leaders need to confidently maximize fairness and inclusion at their organizations, even in the current environment. Based on a new study of more than 2,000 respondents across the United States, A new path to inclusion: How to overcome legal and cultural constraints on building fair workplaces, explores data and insights around what companies are doing now, and what they should do in the future.

In this webinar, we dove into the findings around organizational commitment to inclusion and the legal and cultural constraints that make it hard for companies to live up to that commitment. We also discussed what employees want this work to look like going forward, and offered practical guidance on how to chart a new strategy through the framework of “earned universalism.”

Speakers

• David Glasgow, Executive Director, Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
• Joy Ohm, Vice President, Knowledge Architect and Writer, Catalyst
• Emily Shaffer, PhD, Senior Director, Research, Catalyst
• Christina Thomas, Project Director and Research Scholar, Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Explore the new path to inclusion solution suite