
Status Report
‘Diversity is not a destination that we reach one day, it’s a journey with multiple milestones.’ – Wesley Bizzell, Altria Client Services Inc.
In the two years since GC last turned the spotlight on diversity and inclusion in the US, both the structure of the narrative – and, perhaps more importantly, the prominence afforded to it in the mainstream – has undergone a significant shift.
The impact of storytelling from high-profile individuals, together with similarly prominent incidents involving household-name companies, has shone a bright light on a host of diversity and inclusion issues, forcing companies and their counsel to take a hard look at their own policies.