“Tomorrow’s management systems will need to value diversity, dissent and divergence as highly as conformance, consensus and cohesion.” Gary Hamel

In today’s vastly competitive landscape, not to mention frequent high-profile legal actions mixed with an increasingly diverse workforce in ways other than race, organizations are encountering tremendous challenges when it comes to inclusion.

While diversity and inclusion are well-known drivers in business and in developing one’s leadership acumen’s, it remains clogged in the wheels of management inertia. Diversity awareness or inclusion programs now spring up in almost every company. Yet, few are willing to overcome the protective silos implicitly keeping it as just another whim.

Our research reveals awareness creates a greater understanding and understanding establishes trust and improved communication. Acceptance and trust help us embrace all differences in our workplaces. This is a higher level of achievement.