DE&I: Small steps for big changes

As Chair of the Executive Leadership Research Initiative for Women and Minority Attorneys at Harvard Law School and author of Diversity Dividend – The Transformational Power of Small Changes to Debias Your Company, Attract Diverse Talent, Manage Everyone Better and Make More Money, Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio knows more than a thing or two about the benefits that successful implementation of DE&I measures can bring companies.

Despite a large and growing industry on corporate DE&I, and a huge number of ‘how-to’ texts out there, why do so many companies seem to struggle to get it right? One of the main reasons according to Cecchi-Dimeglio, and one of the main motivations for writing Diversity Dividend, is the gap between theory and application.

Connect human understanding with data analysis

Her unique experience as both a behavioral scientist and a data scientist (not to mention her deep legal background) has, she maintains, brought home to her the importance of connecting…