CPABC: What Do Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace Truly Look Like?

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As a follow-up to my opening keynote at CPABC’s PD Nexus: Maximizing Diversity, I was recently featured in CPABC’s flagship journal, CPABC in Focus.

My article What Do Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace Truly Look Like? provides some of the technical perspective around different kinds of diversity and the business case for diversity among CPAs.

My keynote, “Why Diversity & Inclusion is Best Championed by Financial Leadership”, kicked off a day of speakers and panels focused on diversity and inclusion in the workplace. The keynote was focused on the key role that financial leadership play in driving efforts towards inclusive excellence within their workplace.

It’s been my experience that progress in the EDI efforts are directly tied to the engagement of the CFO or VP Finance of a company or organization. This has been the case at YVR, First West Credit Union, and the BC Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction.