As an advisor to CEOs and their teams, my focus is on creating a valuable company. Value could be expressed personally, professionally, and within the context of a team (otherwise known as a business). To break that down:
Personally: would be the leaders and the employees who are empowered through their experience to pursue their highest gifts within a vision and mission that is meaningful to them.
Professionally: would be the enhancement of their skillsets and their practice.
Teams or Business: this would be the realization of their collective vision and mission, which, if pursued correctly, would lead to their market’s acknowledgement of their value.
As a leader, you don’t want an echo chamber, you want fresh perspectives that can release the creativity and energy of the culture you are creating. You want diversity. Your want to reward it fairly across the board (equity). And you want a sense of belonging independent of the silos of excellence that most people have adopted in their education, in their closed and undiversified communities, and in their clubs and business’s. (Inclusion).
How do you proactively achieve this without it becoming a rule or a compliance checklist? Answering this question in the right way will power your business.
The care and feeding of a company creates a highly leveraged vehicle to optimize its path to value. Great leaders know how to leverage different points of view that originate from disparate cultural backgrounds. This strengthens the vision, mission, and execution. We explore the terms diversity, equity, and inclusion and the power of the perceived other in a Great Conversation with Dr. Jade Singleton of The Sarah Jane Academy.