As a leader in an organization, your dedication to excellence will determine your equitable standing among both internal and external stakeholders. It will show how seriously you take learning, growing, and prospering as someone in power. Having a diverse workforce leads to happier and healthier employees, more respected customers, and better access to the required talent and skillsets for an organization to succeed. A study conducted by the Harvard Business Review found that companies with diverse teams had a 19% higher innovation revenue.
Bernadette Smith is an expert in helping organizations integrate principles of equity and inclusion across all their functions. She is the CEO and founder of the Equality Institute and has won the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Booksellers Gold Medal Award for three books on LGBTQ inclusion. Bernadette is frequently requested as a keynote speaker to encourage an inclusive work environment and celebrate diversity.
Bernadette has consulted with Fortune 500 companies and presented to various audiences, including CEOs, leadership teams, human resource and diversity leaders, and sales and marketing professionals, among others. Due to her insight and impact as a change agent, she has been featured in reputable publications such as the New York Times, USA Today, the Washington Post, and Fast Company. She has also appeared on CNN, the Today Show, the BBC, and National Public Radio. Bernadette has been named one of Chicago's Notable LGBTQ Executives by Crain's Chicago Business.
This week, Bernadette joined me to share more information on the topic. For more information, please visit https://www.theequalityinstitute.com/speaking.
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