July 21, 2021

Washington Post: Transcript: Diversity in the Workplace: Building Inclusive Company Culture with Vernā Myers

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Transcript: Diversity in the Workplace: Building Inclusive Company Culture with Vernā Myers

2021-07-20 00:00:00, Washington Post Live, Washington Post

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I think we're seeing more people feel powerful, and so we see people moving up into, like you said, our leadership group.I have to tell you, when I first joined–we have E-Staff, which is all the executives, and sitting in a room for the very first time where almost half of the room are brilliant women, it kind of blew my mind.

There are perspectives that have never been really given air, and if any company wants to move into the future and be resilient and competent and capable and relevant, right, and to serve their constituencies and customers, they've got to be on this journey of inclusion because it's where the innovation is.

So, when I say this is a long-term game, it's because deeply embedded in everything we've learned to do is a preference for a certain group of people, namely White, namely male and straight and cis and without disabilities and of a certain religion, et cetera.

Let me tell you this is not easy because almost everyone in corporate America has been given a particular lens about what's the norm, what's beautiful, what smart looks like, what it talks like, and it's pretty much reflective of the people who have been in positions of power and not of those that have been marginalized or excluded.

I'm trying to remind people that unless we confront this, if you can't name a problem, you can't solve it, and so I would love for people to keep naming that problem and also looking at all the joy that comes from getting it right.

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