Organizations can impact equality, inclusion and diversity (EI&D) through collaboration with a broad base of stakeholders. Such partnerships can have far-reaching effects, from transforming organizational culture to benefitting wider societies and nations.
Martin Luther King, Jr. reminded us that āthe arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.ā As individuals, societies and nations continue to push for increased social and political justice across the globe, business too must play its role. By implementing robust EI&D strategies in-house and broadening collaborative efforts to include community-led, grassroots activist movements, organizations can ensure their presence across global territories is actively engaged in improving representation and justice across all their spheres of influence.
As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to lay bare stark societal and health inequities across continents, a new generation of global solidarity movements have come to the fore. Seeded in response to a rise in far-Right politics, racism and homophobia, these movements have effectively leveraged the power of technology to collaborate and campaign transnationally. From Black Lives Matter to the #MeToo movement, their influence and reach has been unprecedented.