Make Diversity and Inclusion Your Competitive Advantage

Trailblazers by Lenora Billings-Harris and Redia Anderson Take a look at today’s top companies and you can’t help but conclude that diversity and inclusion deliver results.

In our globalized economy, organizations that minimize these values or treat them as mere buzzwords do so at their own risk.

Their more agile and forward-thinking peers are already translating diversity into competitive advantage, leveraging it into new markets, and reaping its quantifiable gains.

So what are these winning enterprises doing?
And how is it working?

Trailblazers takes you into some of the world’s top performing companies for insights on how they are expanding the definition, practice, and bottom-line benefits of diversity.

You’ll meet twelve leading Chief Diversity Officers and discover the real-world strategies they have developed to win talent, optimize internal performance, broaden marketing reach, and more.

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“Trailblazers presents a comprehensive and compelling framework for what it really takes for organizations and leaders to be successful in a multicultural world.” —Howard Putnam, former CEO, Southwest Airlines

“This book is truly a ‘keeper’ for business leaders who want their organizations to be on the cutting edge of diversity and inclusion strategies and, most importantly, achieve meaningful results.” —Claudette J. Whiting, former head of diversity and inclusion for Microsoft and DuPont

“Lenora and Redia go beyond the business case for diversity and inclusion. Trailblazers provides strong evidence and best practices that clearly integrate diversity and inclusion into successful leadership and business success.” —Frank J. McCloskey, Vice President, Diversity, Georgia Power

With best practices and innovative techniques drawn from path-making companies like IBM, Verizon, Dell, The Coca-Cola Company, American Airlines, Merck, and more, Trailblazers gives you an up-to-date toolset you can use to:

Leverage diversity and inclusion in a global marketplace
Reach consumers better and create tighter client relationships
Retain and develop leadership
Get executive buy-in
Create effective action plans that deliver results
Extend diversity to your brands, markets, and supply chains
Understand the roles and values of Chief Diversity Officers
Increase middle management participation and engagement
Embed diversity and inclusion efforts in existing processes
Generate, measure, and explain diversity and inclusion ROI
Ensure accountability and track outcomes

Vision, strategy, and metrics—plus a passion for driving outcomes—yield effective and sustainable diversity and inclusion efforts. Filled with proven methods for implementing and sustaining such endeavors, Trailblazers supplies you and your organization with the tools to fully realize the promise of diversity and the power of inclusion.

“Trailblazers’ results-producing approaches from top corporations gives clear and compelling guidance to all those who are working to leverage diversity’s potential and create environments where talent thrives for the good of all.” —Anita Rowe, PhD, Partner, Gardenswartz & Rowe, and coauthor, Managing Diversity: A Complete Desk Reference and Planning Guide

“Trailblazers is an impressive compilation of diversity and inclusion advice from some of the most admired companies in the world. Using real-time business examples, Trailblazers does an outstanding job of defining diversity and inclusion as a business imperative.” —H. Joseph Machicote, Vice President, Talent Management & HR Services, Lance, Inc.

RediaAnderson Redia Anderson, executive coach and nationally recognized leader in the field of inclusion and diversity, is a former chief diversity officer (Deloitte, Equiva Services—joint venture between Shell/Texaco/Saudi Aramco) and has worked with Fortune 500 corporations, partnerships, and universities. Redia is Managing Partner of Anderson People Strategies, LLC, where she helps organizations align people, performance, and results. Redia has been featured in national publications such as Working Mother and Diversity Inc magazine.

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Lenora Billings-Harris is a diversity strategist and international speaker who helps organizations make diversity a competitive advantage. Diversity Woman magazine named her as one of twenty top influential diversity leaders in 2008, and she is a past president of the National Speakers Association. Lenora serves on the adjunct faculties of the business schools of Averett University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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