In November 2012, Diversity Best Practices and its parent company, Working Mother Media, traveled to São Paulo to host a series of events addressing diversity and inclusion and the advancement of women in Brazil. The week of conferences was a continuation of an annual series of global events. In previous years, Diversity Best Practices and Working...
By Andrés T. Tapia, President, Diversity Best Practices and Fred Hobby, President, Institute for Diversity of the American Hospital Association
A disproportionate percentage of the 32 million people who will be insured under the Affordable Care Act will be people of color, yet the U.S. healthcare system is ill-equipped capacity- and capability-wise to adequately meet their needs. Already...
By Andrés Tapia, President, Diversity Best Practices, and Michael Collins, Research and Publications Manager, Diversity Best Practices
New developments in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) issues have permanently changed the landscape of global diversity and inclusion. The growth in municipalities with marriage equality, the rise in same-sex-headed households, and...
Today, leading ERGs have become much more strategic and sophisticated. They are also making a larger impact on organizations as their scope and appeal broaden. But why have some ERGs prospered, while others have floundered? How do external trends impact these internal groups? What unexpected challenges await today’s ERGs? And what principles must ERGs live by in...
As the world continues to face pressing diversity and inclusion concerns, Diversity Best Practices, Working Mother Media, and the National Association for Female Executives work to help businesses navigate these ever-changing, always significant challenges.
In November, 2011, Diversity Best Practices and Working Mother Media made a return trip to China after a successful 2010 visit,...
By Andrés T. Tapia, President, Diversity Best Practices and Betty Spence, Ph.D., President, National Association for Female Executives
Amid the debris of the current global economic cataclysm, men are facing their shattered dreams—and those of others who entrusted their savings to them. From the sidelines, powerful women, capable of not only cleaning up the mess but also...
By Andrés T. Tapia, President, Diversity Best Practices & Jonathan Kaufman, Founder, DisabilityWorks, inc.
The Largest Minority Group
“I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” - Thomas Edison, inventor with a learning disability and partial deafness
Before exploring how to shift the way we think about disability we must begin with a couple of basic...
There she was. Mi’ja. My daughter, tiara perched on her jet-black hair, looking radiant and happy, surrounded by her friends and family. It was her quinceañera—her fifteenth birthday—a rite of passage in the Latino culture where a girl becomes a young woman. Mom and Papi, proud … and torn.
It was 2006. Our daughter was coming of age and this joyous celebration with 200 people, a live salsa band,...
