Bringing Diversity to the Executive Suite
When Arnold Donald took the helm as president and CEO of the Executive Leadership Council, he came with a bold mandate to diversify America’s executive suites and boardrooms.
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When Arnold Donald took the helm as president and CEO of the Executive Leadership Council, he came with a bold mandate to diversify America’s executive suites and boardrooms.
In 2008, Congress formed the Military Leadership Diversity Commission to analyze promotion rates for minorities in the military and develop strategies to make the armed forces more reflective of the nation’s diverse population. Today, African Americans make up 18.5% of enlistment, 9.5% of all officer corps, and 6% of the general officer corps, a marginal increase from last year. According to Clarence “C.J.†Johnson, principal director of the office of diversity management and equal opportunity at the Department of Defense, not much more can be expected after two years, particularly at the senior levels.
The companies that appear on the HispanicBusiness 2013 Best Companies for Diversity list are not there by accident
Sources suggest that there now is a rift between the old guard and the new team
If you want to find companies that back up their diversity talk, look no further than the 2018 Black Enterprise 50 Best Companies for Diversity list.