The link between the diversity of a company’s leadership team and innovation is proven. The Center for Talent Innovation published their ground-breaking research findings in its report ‘Innovation, diversity and market growth’, and concluded that the engine of serial innovation is a diverse workforce managed by leaders who cherish difference, embrace disruption and foster a speak up culture. Download the full report here.
McKinsey reports that, “…companies with diverse boards experience 53% higher returns on equity”.
Yet, most companies today operate Talent Management and Performance Management processes that effectively recruit against a very narrow set of organisational norms, and then performance manage employees into conformity, inadvertently stifling creativity and diversity of thought in the process.
We see our role at The Diversity & Innovation Company as providing the catalyst and enabler to your Leaders becoming much more self aware and developing real empathy for others. These are the foundations for individual leaders to work with colleagues more sensitively, to welcome and manage diversity positively within their teams, and to welcome difference – in people and in thought.
Our immersion experiences are designed to make individual leaders think, feel and act differently. We work with leaders during their experiences and development assignments to enable them to: