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October 20, 2023January 27, 2025

What Most People Get Wrong About Diversity & DEI

Ever since the Supreme Court overturned the use of affirmative action in college admissions earlier this year, organizations have been abandoning their DEI programs and Chief Diversity Officers at an alarming rate. Is this because they’re concerned about future legal challenges from anti-affirmative action groups? Is it because they really weren’t committed to diversity? Is it because they positioned diversity and DEI programs so narrowly that they couldn’t be successful? I believe it’s a little bit of all, but mostly because of how diversity and DEI has been positioned.

October 13, 2023January 30, 2025

ELITE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: WEEKEND READS – October 13, 2023

Welcome to this week’s edition of Elite Leadership Insights: Weekend Reads, a resource for you to utilize as you continue your leadership journey and packaged so you can casually read them over the weekend. We curate these articles from leading business and academic organizations. Continuous learning is a critical part of leadership improvement. Feel free to share this with your team. Enjoy and have a great weekend!

September 22, 2023January 30, 2025

ELITE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: WEEKEND READS – September 22, 2023

September 15, 2023September 29, 2023

ELITE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: WEEKEND READS – September 15, 2023

September 8, 2023September 22, 2023

ELITE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: WEEKEND READS – September 8, 2023

September 1, 2023May 29, 2025

WEEKEND READS – September 1, 2023

The Elite Leadership Insights newsletter publishes Weekend Reads each Friday with resources from some of the top academic and business leadership minds. It is a resource for you to utilize as you continue your leadership journey and packaged so you can casually read them over the weekend. Continuous learning is a critical part of leadership improvement. In each Weekend Reads you will find links to articles, videos, podcasts and other resources, as well as some recommended leadership books.

August 25, 2023August 31, 2023

WEEKEND READS – August 25, 2023

August 6, 2023August 10, 2023

WEEKEND READS – August 4, 2023

June 8, 2023May 4, 2025

Utilizing an Evidence-Based DEI Strategy

The most frequent arguments against DEI initiatives are focused around competence and merit. On competence, they argue that a less competent person is receiving an opportunity because they are from a historically disenfranchised group. In actuality, less competent people have been receiving opportunities because they were from the majority population and/or had a relationship that provided them an unfair advantage for decades.

January 7, 2023May 4, 2025

Strategies to Retain Your Best Leaders in 2023

Organizations lose good people every year. In this current era of workforce disruptions, the losses can be even worse. The challenge for organizations is to minimize the loss of their best leaders. This has implications not just for the current year but could reverberate for years to come from an interruption of your leadership pipeline. There are two strategies organizations should deploy immediately to minimize the loss of their best leaders in 2023 and beyond, including: