Provides guidance on creating a sustainable, inclusive, equitable, and compassionate business model that will thrive in businesses globally
Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are a must for today’s corporations, yet many corporations worldwide have failed to establish real equality in an actionable, measurable way. Corporations Compassion Culture: Leading Your Business toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion takes a new and more effective approach to driving equity and inclusion in the corporate world, focusing on how a culture of compassion can lead to more vibrant, higher performing teams. You’ll learn how many standard corporate activities actually damage employees’ well-being and engagement - and how to dismantle those practices. You’ll also learn how to build a new and better corporate environment that responds to all employees’ needs and meets shareholders’ demands for stability and risk mitigation.
Author Keesa Schreane delivers insight into what it takes for businesses to drive real social and corporate change toward inclusion and equity, while sharing her personal story about the challenges of being a woman of color in today’s corporate environment. Through hard work, talent, and - you guessed it - compassion, she has risen to become one of today’s luminaries in the area of responsible leadership in global corporations. Business executives, HR directors, diversity and inclusion professionals, and sustainability leaders will value her direct, no-nonsense approach. Learn to:
- Identify behaviors, practices, and activities that may be damaging your employees’ well-being, engagement, and productivity
- Measure and continuously evolve culture promoting risk mitigation, reputation preservation, employee retention, customer satisfaction, and profit generation.
- Adopt new approaches to treat employees, customers, and shareholders compassionately and equally, and dismantle the old ways
- Retain the best talent and survive new realities, all while creating tremendous loyalty, innovation, and financial payoff
This book will enable you to create strategies and tactics for integrating racial, cultural and gender equity, inclusion, and compassion into businesses in a way that enriches society, employees, and the corporate entity itself.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1: Inclusion, Equality, and Compassion in Business: An Overview
Chapter 2: Uncomfortable, But Necessary: Connecting Racial History to Racial Injustice in Corporate Structures
Chapter 3: Women’s Corporate Leadership: Past Perceptions and Current Realities
Chapter 4: Evolution of Companies Post-Covid
Chapter 5: INCLUSION AND THE BOTTOM LINE: A BROKEN STRUCTURE
Chapter 6: GENDER EQUITY AND COMPANY GROWTH
Chapter 7: Elements of a Compassionate Corporate Culture
Chapter 8: Your Plan for Creating Inclusion Through Compassion: What Works
Chapter 9: Your Plan for Creating Gender Equity Through Compassion: What Works
Chapter 10: The Future: Compassionate Corporate Culture and Sustainable Business
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