In India, diversity is a bigger word than gender
A diversity talk written for New York does not survive contact with a plant town in Jharkhand. Imported material assumes the room’s differences are the ones the writer had at home. Indian audiences can tell within minutes, and they switch off. India’s diversity is older and wider than any framework built elsewhere. Language alone divides […]
The acronym is shrinking; the work is not
In June 2025, the Wall Street Journal described corporate America’s diversity campaign as “going incognito”. Companies that once broadcast their DEI goals were quietly recasting them to avoid scrutiny from the administration, the courts and activist campaigns. Target dropped its DEI goals. Google dropped its diversity hiring targets. If you only read American headlines, you […]
What a good diversity and inclusion session actually changes
The applause is not the point. Neither is the photo for the company newsletter. The test that matters comes on Monday: what does the room do differently? Too many sessions fail that test. The strongest research available says most diversity programmes do not increase diversity at all. Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev studied three decades […]