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Divercial 013: Rebranding DEI in 2023 · The Business of Alignment - Powered by The E1B2 Collective

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  Bold statement alert. D.
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  Ein be. Definitely should be baked into
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  every HR initiative. Every Workforce in it
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  initiative. Every people initiative, Ira
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  leadership Initiative for the humanistic reasons for the
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  social justice. Social justice reasons for the
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  emotional reasons, for just the good human being reason.
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  But what I would actually say What's even more powerful than
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  that. Is the objective business
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  reason. Now, we've all heard this story.
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  Let me give you a different version of I believe D EI and be
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  needs a corporation needs, a person needs a voice to Rebrand
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  that energy. The initiative that Focus I
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  believe the highest levels of Executives and some of the
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  biggest companies in the world, Down to the CEOs of your small
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  businesses in the pockets of America.
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  Do not understand the most important variables of D EI, and
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  B. So that means we have a branding
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  issue. I learned this years ago from
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  Gary vaynerchuk, who was always, I've always said this who is an
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  underrated executive on the people side of his leadership
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  capability. He often talks about branding.
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  he often talks about Communications, he all, he often
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  talks about narrative perspective, Insight Clarity
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  understanding and how to simplify things.
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  And I genuinely believe that the Ein be potentially has been over
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  simplified. at the core executive level, your cfo's,
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  your, cos your CEOs, your partner's, your boards, your
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  investors for them to understand being able to comprehend The
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  gender. Race.
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  A bit of compensation. Recruiting.
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  Identity. And I don't want to discredit
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  it. So I was going to say the most
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  simple and basic things, but I won't discredit the most
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  important things, the most impactful things, but things
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  that I think are fastened in. They are part of who we are
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  within an organization today. I just didn't believe that and I
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  think the date is starting to catch up.
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  Ten years ago, five years ago, shit, three and a half years
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  ago. I think companies were in the
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  50s and 60s and 40s and 30% as it pertains to all of those
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  categories. And percentage, the percentage
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  of gaming is let's say, 100 percent is doing a perfect and
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  let's say zero percentage doing get the worst.
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  I've seen companies at 30, 40 50 percent.
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  And now I think companies as it pertains to recruiting as
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  pertains to compensation and equitable Equitable salaries.
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  Representation of then companies and starting to finally realize
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  that it's not a, it's not a, it's not a maybe it's not a
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  something we wish. It's starting to be truly
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  operationalized inside of organizations to a certain
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  degree. Let's give it a 70%.
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  So, here's what I'll say. We have to start and I repeat
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  myself. The biggest corporations in the
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  world, the biggest dni leaders, the world, the biggest, you
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  know, we need Gary would appreciate this from a branding
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  perspective. We need someone, that's not even
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  in h.r. Someone that doesn't even have a
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  natural. Quote-unquote, emotional
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  leadership capability that the world knows them for and we need
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  that individual to get behind D EI.
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  And be efforts. Get behind the small Nuance
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  elements of it all the way up to the most recognizable elements
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  of d&i and B, we need that to happen.
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  If that happens, I think something interesting can
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  happen. I really, really do.
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  I really believe that. I really believe that if the the
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  largest CFO in the world or the largest sealed, the world that
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  has a pure business, a pure cash flow of pure ibadah, a pure, you
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  know, financing numbers and data driven mindset if they are to
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  come out publicly and make a very clear announcement movement
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  and actual legitimate effort. In this category they're like
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  vocal about it. I genuinely believe I thoroughly
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  in my heart, believe that the amount of companies that will
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  adopt create space, and cash flow for DUI and B, I believe
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  it'll change. So let's start talking about The
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  Branding because that's all we're doing this podcast.
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  The millions of other HR leadership podcast, the firm's
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  the Keynotes, the events, the Fireside Chats the policies, the
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  blogs, it's all branding, it's all getting human beings behind
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  a certain perspective. But whoever leaves that
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  perspect, whoever, whoever is at the top of the, of the chain,
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  like, who do you think about it? That's a great question for
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  everyone listening. And I wanted, I won't even give
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  my perspective, but who do you think about when you think when
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  you hear HR? Who do you think about when you
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  hear Learning and Development, who do you think about when you
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  hear D, EI and be what? And who do you think about?
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  When you hear internal comms, what do you think about that
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  bass? I was a little plug.
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  I'm just joking not joking, though.
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  Next, next Thursday 11:11 again. Speaking stabbings voices, 2023.
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  Love you. Anyway, focus, focus a jack.
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  Who do you, who do you? Who do you?
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  Who do you think of me? You hear all those terms in a
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  charm? People who do you think of?
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  Who do you think of when I say marketing?
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  Who do you think I want? Who do you think of when I say
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  branding? Who do you think of when I say
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  fashion? Who do you think of And whoever
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  you think of when you hear D EI and be, I guarantee that
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  individual may be at a macro level respected, but at a
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  day-to-day level, I don't believe those individuals are
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  fully. Respected by those that I think
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  are genuinely influencing organizations today.
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  Who does your everyday CEO of a 500-person company?
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  1000 person company. A 5,000 person company, who do
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  they look up to from a business perspective?
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  Who do they believe it? How what it was is, what is the
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  guiding force of their overall perspective in that and
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  identity? And if we those that are in the
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  D EI and be Lane World conversation.
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  If we can start pushing and rebranding something a bit
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  different, Small tweaks. I learned from a great partner,
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  Rob. He tells me to this day and he's
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  always told me anything. It's about how you package it.
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  Packaging is important. Packaging is real.
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  So, let's think about that. Let's think about that, as we're
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  trying to push our D EI and be efforts forward inside of an
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  organization. External of an organization as a
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  writer as a speaker. As someone that wants to see the
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  world do good. Let's think about how we package
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  this work. And I guarantee we'll get more
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  done. As always just a few thoughts,
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  just a few perspectives. We'll talk soon.
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  As always just a few thoughts, just a few perspectives.
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  We'll talk soon.