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This week marks four years of writing 5 Things (that’s 850+ stories!) – and just over a year of my podcast 5 Things in 15 Minutes. As I’m sure you can imagine, there are plenty of weeks when it’s hard to find stories worthy of “good vibes in DEI.” You might be able to tell when you read those weeks. 😉 

Writing 5 Things keeps me in a growth mindset, and I love sharing what I learn – plus I just have so much fun in my conversations on the podcast.

Here Are Five of My Favorite Celebrations From the Past Four Years of 5 Things:

  1. Private Equity Giant Carlyle Thinks It’s Found the Formula for Incentivizing Diversity Work

    • Carlyle Group is incentivizing diversity with DEI Awards. The event recognizes (and pays) employees who have contributed significantly to the company’s DEI efforts, where employees nominate their peers to earn the awards. In the program’s second year, the number of nominees and employee engagement scores went up, and DEI has become increasingly embedded in the company’s operations. The article details Caryle’s impressive process and results. This matters because we’ll take buy-in any way we can get it.

  2. Mastercard Introduces Accessible Card for Blind and Partially Sighted People

  3. Mellody Hobson Has A Plan To Bring More Black Executives To The Top Of Corporate America

  4. How Tyler Perry Turned an Army Base Into a Major Studio

  5. The Most Featured Company on 5 Things... We Are Skipping Them and Talking About #2

    • While the prize for the most featured company on 5 Things in the past 4 years officially goes to Target, I’m a little mad at them now, so let’s talk about the #2, LinkedIn, instead. I’ve featured LinkedIn 11 times for inclusive and accessible features such as name pronunciations, auto-captions on videos, the ability to add a career-break or job titles like “stay at home dad” to your profile, the ability to add dyslexic thinking as a skill, and a number of features for recruiters to nudge for diverse candidates. Perhaps what I like the most, though, is that they pay their Employee Resource Group leaders. LinkedIn is doing great things and because they have such a powerful reach, their impact towards creating a more equitable world is significant.

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Monday is Juneteenth! In this LinkedIn article, former 5 in 15 guest Crystal Whiteaker shares 6 Meaningful Ways to Honor Juneteenth and Celebrate Black History.

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