How Companies Can Institutionalize Equality In The Workplace

Black executives have never had the opportunity to speak the truth about their experiences in corporate America like the one that has been created in the wake of George Floyd's murder.

That open dialogue is the only way that true equity in the workplace will ever be achieved because problems that are never discussed will never be fixed.

If we institutionalize open and honest dialogue right now, we can keep it going. If we don’t, the status quo of Black professionals not being able to talk about racism in the workplace for fear of putting their career at risk will resume.

As demonstrated by diversity forums gone awry at LinkedIn and Cisco, there is a lot more open dialogue necessary to remove racism from the workplace.

Seeing Black people in leadership positions or even just on equal footing is something that will have to become normalized for a lot of people and video is the fastest and most effective way to do that on a large scale.

A weekly corporate talk show is how a company can immediately institutionalize a sustainable, long-term solution for delivering a workplace where being Black is not a career impediment.