Approaches and Strategies
‘What’s happened is that you’re not even just hiring a lawyer at this point, you’re hiring a team. And if that team isn’t diverse and inclusive, you’re not going to end up with the outcomes you want, so just from a practical and pragmatic perspective, that’s important,’ – John Schultz, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Much is spoken in diversity and inclusion circles about the importance of ‘tone at the top’, and several of our participating senior in-house counsel shared their lived experience of the impact CEOs can have when they not only support, but advocate, for change.
‘We have found that when the CEO and the leadership team is consistently visible and vocal on D&I issues – where they’re showing up and speaking up at diversity events, including it in their employee town halls and talking about it whenever they can – it’s one of the engines that propels D&I forward within the company,’ says Wesley Bizzell, senior assistant GC at Altria Client Services Inc.
