Diversity and Inclusion Resources and Thought Leadership from MDB Group

D&I Online Learning, Webinars, Podcasts, and Articles

We frequently hear questions on multicultural diversity and inclusion (D&I) such as:·

Why has diversity become a business imperative?
How do I grow my business by managing a multicultural workforce?
What are the advantages of diversity in the workplace?
Is diversity in the work place beneficial?
How do I develop a diversity strategy? What diversity metrics should I use?

As part of our commitment to advancing the principle of improving business results and growing organizations through workforce diversity and inclusion, we provide these diversity and inclusion videos, talks, articles, and interviews that address these and similar questions (see offer below for PDF copies).

Our seasoned, practical, friendly experts welcome the chance to speak with you! If you have any questions about the series, or suggestions for future topics, or if you want to discuss your D&I needs with us, please use our convenient fill-in form to contact us directly.

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Sustainable diversity and inclusion strategies to grow your organization
Employee Network Groups (ENGs)
The future of diversity and inclusion in our society
Engaging your employees in diversity and inclusion through communication
Diversity and inclusion podcasts
PDF copies, copyright notice, questions and suggestions

Sustainable diversity and inclusion strategies to grow your organization

Discover more about how we design sustainable D&I initiatives in our four-part D&I learning series and in a replay of a recent webinar. Here is an abstract for both the series and the webinar. The series uses flash and the replay uses Windows Media Player.

Sustainable D&I initiatives are about helping achieve the organization’s key business goals by applying a workforce and workplace lens to the business goals. When grounded in these principles, D&I initiatives become core business strategies that engage CEOs and senior leaders and enable meaningful workplace culture change. These principles apply to all organizations whether they are global or local, for-profit or not-for-profit, corporate or academic or governmental.

D&I initiatives should:

Focus intently on achieving key business objectives.
Build a workforce with employees from all different backgrounds to ensure sufficient breadth and depth of capabilities.
Build a workplace in which everyone has the skills and cultural competence to communicate and work well together with colleagues that have increasingly diverse cultural backgrounds.

D&I Online Learning Series

Our updated four-part D&I online learning series. (Duration 32:41 in four parts.)

Diversity and Inclusion as a Business Strategy for Any Organization

D&I podcast:

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D&I articles:

Designing Accountability into a Business-Aligned® Diversity and Inclusion Strategy presents a case study analysis of designing ownership and accountability into a Business-Aligned diversity and inclusion strategy. Done effectively as part of the design process, this helps ensure a sustainable, successful outcome. First published in The Diversity Factor.

The Business-Aligned® Diversity and Inclusion Strategy describes a general approach to developing a strategy for improving business performance by leveraging inclusion and diversity in the work place. First published in Profiles in Diversity Journal.

Success Through a Culture of Diversity and Inclusion illustrates and compares the application of core diversity and inclusion concepts in the business and college fraternity environments. The analysis demonstrates the ease with which diversity and inclusion can be aligned with the goals of virtually any organization. First published in Triangle Review, a quarterly publication of Triangle Fraternity.

Employee Network Groups

D&I podcast audio interview:

Growing Your Business Through Employee Network Groups is a five minute audio interview in which Peter Bye describes business growth opportunities associated with ENGs. This interview describes business growth opportunities associated with Employee Network Groups. First heard through Sky Radio on USAirways, Northwest, and America West Airlines.

D&I article:

Developing and Implementing Employee Network Groups provides background and our perspective about obtaining the benefits of employee network groups while avoiding the potential pitfalls. First published in Workforce Diversity Reader.

The future of diversity and inclusion in our society

D&I article:

Window on the Future of Society, Business, Diversity, and Inclusion shares our perspective about the future of diversity and inclusion and the challenges we confront in accelerating this transition in a world that thinks in the near-term. First published in a special feature of Profiles in Diversity Journal.

Engaging your employees in diversity and inclusion through communication

D&I article:

Communicating about Diversity and Inclusion with Middle Managers highlights the strategic importance of communication to a diversity and inclusion strategy and focuses on the unique needs of middle managers. First published in the Workforce Diversity Reader.

Diversity and Inclusion Podcasts

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PDF Copies of MDB Group's Diversity and Inclusion Articles

If you would like a PDF copy of one or more of our articles, please use our convenient fill-in form to contact us directly Tell us the article(s) of interest and we will be happy to provide a copy formatted for easy printing and sharing.

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D&I Newsletter Archive

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MDB Group Business-Aligned® D&I Solutions

D&I Application Note (PDF): Grow Your Organization through Business-Aligned® D&I Planning

Spotlight on Training & Development

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Our D&I training, development, coaching, and keynotes will enable and engage teams to deliver meaningful business results.

MDB Group has special capabilities dedicated to CEOs, senior executives, and Chief Diversity Officers (CDOs) and other D&I practitioners. We offer D&I speakers for keynotes, plenary sessions, executive briefings, and more.

Our collaborative up-front planning process helps ensure that we meet your specific business needs. Visit these pages to learn more:

Spotlight on D&I

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Business-Aligned® diversity and inclusion are about growing your organization's business success in our increasingly diverse and complex society. Our Business-Aligned D&I planning process applies a workforce and workplace "lens" to your key business objectives, to create the workforce and workplace that will grow your organization and help ensure your sustained business success.

To learn more visit these pages:

Spotlight on Building Inclusion

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Almost all organizations say they want a more-inclusive workplace. Some can define what this looks like. Very few organizations achieve anything close to “full inclusion". Why? It takes a change in mindset about diversity and cultural difference.

Growing an organization and its business through full inclusion typically demands some mix of the PICAS factors (Productivity, Innovation, Creativity, Agility, and Safety). Full inclusion requires cultural and behavioral change from the CEO to the newest employee. To learn more visit these pages: