DEI and cultural competency consultant Alisa Kolodizner on tackling diversity and inclusion in these challenging times By Ijeoma S. Nwatu For Alisa Kolodizner, everything comes down to community. A self-described collaborator and active communicator, Kolodizner settled in the United States as a refugee from Ukraine. She is now...
Driven by purpose, Diahann Billings-Burford, CEO of the nonprofit RISE, helps foster social change through the unifying power of sports By Jackie Krentzman RISE CEO Diahann Billings-Burford knows firsthand and deeply the power of intentionality. Growing up the youngest of three girls in Brooklyn, she faced an uncertain...
Diversity Woman pays tribute to Black women who are disrupting the status quo in executive leadership across industries both inside and beyond Corporate America By Carolyn M. Brown Black women continue to defiantly chip away at Corporate America’s concrete ceiling. For the third time in the past...
Turning Solutions into Entrepreneurial Success For every problem, there’s a solution—and a dedicated entrepreneur can find that solution. It’s a philosophy that has guided Jada Mclean, 30, of San Francisco on her quest to make the world better while building a business and forging a professional path...
The new generation is redefining the workplace By Carrie Kirby Alma Klein, 47, enjoys managing a team that is about one-third generation Z. But she says she also has a list of “things they are comfortable with that would have sent me into a coma when I was a...
Ecolab’s Dexter Davis has applied his earlier incarnation as a family therapist into leading with empathy By Jackie Krentzman When Dexter Davis was growing up in a majority white community in Columbus, Ohio, he played on his high school basketball team. But sometimes he did not have...