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- It's been over a month

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since the Black Lives Matter movement

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revitalized the conversation
around diversity

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in the workplace.

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Now it's time for real action.

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Darnisa Amante-Jackson
is a diversity, equity,

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and inclusion advisor to
businesses and school systems

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across the country.

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She says that for organizations

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to reach their diversity goals,

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a multilayered cultural
approach is required.

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Here are three specific practices

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that companies should embrace.

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Organizational change starts
at the top with your C suite

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and then cascades down to
the rest of your company.

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Working towards a diverse workplace

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pushes leaders to ask critical questions

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about their culture, metrics,

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and what accountability looks like.

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Employees need their superiors
to clearly communicate

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what's on the other
side of diversity goals.

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That's why C suite leaders
should be the first

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to get coached and trained
on diversity, equity,

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and inclusion practices.

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Human resources, managers, and directors

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are key partners in building
and sustaining your culture.

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Like the C suite, it's
important that managers

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are able to provide clarity
and progress toward a vision

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and ensure that their teams

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can contextualize diversity work.

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Managers should receive
training and coaching

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that helps them understand
how they can manifest

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the company vision and new
HR policies and practices.

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The staff should only be trained

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after the company has
established the why and how

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of your inclusion work.

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Leaders must ask themselves
why this work is important

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to them and their organization.

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Employees need to hear
a why to authenticate

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that their leaders are invested.

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The how can be communicated in gestures

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and instill initial
belief in the movement.

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Like town halls and
company-wide communications.

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But consistent internal messaging

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is just as important.

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Business leaders who are willing
to go deeper in this moment

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have the opportunity to be
a part of a paradigm shift

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in how corporate America
approaches systemic racism.

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