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The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
Lucas and Luna examine how companies and organizations are reshaping hiring, retention, and culture to genuinely include underrepresented professionals. Each episode focuses on a specific dimension of equity — from neurodiversity hiring programs at major tech firms to the economic impact of closing the gender pay gap in finance. Lucas brings the latest data on representation benchmarks from Fortune 500 boards, while Luna challenges assumptions about 'culture fit' and surfaces real-world case…
Episodes
The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented ProfessionalsHow One Company Created a Career Ladder for First-Generation Professionals
In this episode of The Diversity Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a major professional services firm — Deloitte — built a structured career…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Paid All Interns a Living Wage
Episode 52 of The Diversity Career Podcast explores how a mid-sized tech company in Austin, Texas, eliminated unpaid internships by paying all interns a living…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Uses AI to Reduce Bias in Performance Reviews
Episode 51 of The Diversity Career Podcast explores how a large tech firm overhauled its performance review system using AI to reduce bias. Lucas and Luna…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How a Retailer Built a Career Ladder for Formerly Incarcerated Talent
In Episode 50 of The Diversity Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna examine how grocery chain Giant Eagle partnered with the nonprofit Operation Better Start to…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Law Firm Created a Maternity Return-to-Work Coaching Program
Episode 49 of The Diversity Career Podcast examines how the law firm Hogan Lovells designed a maternity return-to-work coaching program to support women after…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Used Skills-Based Hiring to Remove the Four-Year Degree Filter
Episode 48 of The Diversity Career Podcast explores how one large consumer goods company—let's call it 'Vertex Goods'—eliminated the four-year…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Firm Built a Career Ladder for Neurodivergent Talent
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a mid-sized engineering firm, Apex Engineering, created a structured career progression path specifically for…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Built a Career Ladder for Neurodivergent Talent
On this episode of The Diversity Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into how one company—SAP—built a structured career ladder for neurodivergent talent…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Built a Career Ladder for Neurodivergent Talent
Episode 45 of The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo. Most diversity hiring programs focus on getting people in the door — but what happens after that?…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Law Firm Made Flexible Work Permanent for All
Ep 44 of The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna dive into a single law firm's move to make flexible work a permanent option for every…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Made Its Parental Leave Truly Gender Neutral
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how one company—a mid-sized tech firm called PivotWorks—redesigned its parental leave policy to be fully gender…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Firm Uses Salary Transparency to Close the Gap
Episode 42 of The Diversity Career Podcast: Lucas and Luna examine how a mid-sized tech company called EquiPay Solutions used radical salary transparency to…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Paid for Caregiver Support to Retain Talent
Episode 41 of The Diversity Career Podcast explores how a mid-sized tech firm, CloudBridge Systems, implemented a paid caregiver support program — covering…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How a Financial Firm Created a Return-to-Work Program for Caregivers
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a mid-sized financial services firm, Meridian Capital, that launched a structured return-to-work program specifically…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Makes Its Internships Truly Accessible for Neurodivergent Talent
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a major tech firm redesigned its internship program to be genuinely inclusive of neurodivergent candidates. They…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Funded Transition-Related Health Care
Episode 38 of The Diversity Career Podcast: Lucas and Luna examine Vanguard's decision to include gender-affirming surgery and transition-related care in…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Firm Paid for Child Care to Retain Working Mothers
Lucas and Luna explore how one mid-size accounting firm—Bennett Advisors—funded a child care subsidy program that cut turnover among working mothers by 40…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Created a Job-Sharing Program That Actually Worked
In this episode of The Diversity Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a mid-sized tech firm called WorkBetter designed a job-sharing program that allowed…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Firm Made Its Return-to-Work Program a Second Chance Pipeline
Episode 35 of The Diversity Career Podcast explores how one large professional services firm turned its return-to-work program into a genuine second-chance…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Used Name-Blind Resumes to Fix Hiring Bias
Episode 34 of The Diversity Career Podcast explores how a global professional services firm eliminated names from resumes during initial screening, cutting…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Firm Added Disability Hiring and Kept It Going
Episode 33 of The Diversity Career Podcast explores how a mid-sized software company, AccessAbility Solutions, built a sustained disability hiring program that…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Matched Every Employee to a Mentorship
Episode 32 of The Diversity Career Podcast explores a novel mentorship model at a global consulting firm. Instead of leaving mentorship to chance, the company…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Used Internal Mobility to Retain Underrepresented Talent
Episode 31 of The Diversity Career Podcast looks at how one company, a Fortune 500 retailer, built an internal mobility program specifically to retain Black…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Paid for Child Care to Retain Women
Episode 30 of The Diversity Career Podcast explores a specific case: how a mid-sized professional services firm in Chicago, Smithfield Advisors, introduced a…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Removed Degree Requirements and Unlocked Talent
Episode 29 of The Diversity Career Podcast explores how a major Fortune 500 company, IBM, eliminated four-year degree requirements for thousands of roles…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Rewrote Job Descriptions to Remove Gatekeeping
In this episode of The Diversity Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna examine how a mid-size tech firm overhauled its job postings to eliminate credential…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Tied DEI Metrics to Executive Compensation
Episode 27 of The Diversity Career Podcast explores a bold accountability mechanism: tying executive compensation directly to diversity, equity, and inclusion…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Made Mentorship Work for Women of Color
Mentorship programs often fail women of color — mismatched pairs, unconscious bias, unclear goals. This episode examines how one professional services firm…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Firm Cut Herding Bias from the Hiring Process
In this episode, Lucas and Luna discuss how one large professional services firm redesigned its hiring process to reduce 'herding bias' — the…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Made Its 401k Auto-Enroll Close the Wealth Gap
Episode 24 digs into a concrete case: how a mid-sized professional services firm redesigned its 401k plan to close the racial wealth gap. Hosts Lucas and Luna…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Made Its Benefits Truly Inclusive for LGBTQ Families
Episode 23 of The Diversity Career Podcast explores how a mid-size tech company, Pathlight, redesigned its family benefits to be inclusive of LGBTQ employees…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Retained Underrepresented Engineers With Cohort Mentorship
In this episode of The Diversity Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna examine a case study from a mid-sized fintech firm that cut turnover among Black and Latino…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Firm Made Its Parental Leave Truly Gender Neutral
Episode 21 of The Diversity Career Podcast explores how a mid-sized tech company, Veridian Software, redesigned its parental leave policy to be fully gender…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Designed a Career Development Program for Women of Color
In this episode of The Diversity Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how one Fortune 500 company created a targeted career development program specifically…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Made Its Leadership Training Actually Inclusive
In this episode of The Diversity Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how a mid-sized tech company, Greenline Software, redesigned its leadership development…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Built a Career Ladder for First-Gen Professionals
Episode 18 dives into a case study from the professional services firm PwC, which redesigned its career progression framework specifically to support…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Made Its Supplier Diversity Program Unlock Wealth
Lucas and Luna examine how a Fortune 500 company—Cisco—redesigned its supplier diversity program to go beyond compliance metrics. They dig into the specific…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Made Flexible Hours Work for Working Parents
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how a mid-sized tech company called PivotWorks redesigned its work schedules to truly accommodate working parents…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Made Its Internship a Pipeline for Underrepresented Talent
Lucas and Luna examine how a mid-sized healthcare company redesigned its internship program to systematically recruit and retain underrepresented talent. They…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Law Firm Doubled Partner Diversity in Three Years
Lucas and Luna examine how a mid-sized law firm, Manning & Reed, deliberately reshaped its partnership pipeline by rethinking how origination credit is…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Tech Company Redesigned Parental Leave for All Genders
Episode 13 of The Diversity Career Podcast examines how a mid-sized tech company, StellarTech, overhauled its parental leave policy to be fully gender-neutral…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Built a Sponsorship Program That Actually Works
This episode drills into a specific, high-impact DEI strategy that goes beyond mentorship: sponsorship. Lucas and Luna examine how one Fortune 500 company, in…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Credit Union Closed the Wealth Gap for Black Members
Lucas and Luna explore how a single credit union in Atlanta, OneUnited Bank, designed a financial product specifically to close the racial wealth gap. We break…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Matched Diverse Candidates to Retention Data
In episode 10, Lucas and Luna look at how one mid-size tech company—let's call it BridgePath—used internal retention data to redesign its hiring rubric…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Turned Neurodiversity Into a Competitive Edge
Episode 9: Lucas and Luna explore how a midsize tech firm, Synaptic Solutions, transformed its hiring and workplace practices to actively recruit and retain…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Pay Transformed Transparency
In this episode of The Diversity Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how Buffer, the social media management company, made its entire payroll public —…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Doubled Retention by Rethinking Onboarding
Lucas and Luna explore how a mid-size tech company called Calyx Software slashed turnover among underrepresented hires by 45 percent within two years — not by…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Made Employee Resource Groups Actually Matter
Employee resource groups are often treated as social clubs with no real power. But a mid-size tech company called Rivet Labs decided to change that. In 2024…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Closed Its Disability Pay Gap
Episode 5 of The Diversity Career Podcast digs into a quietly radical initiative by a Fortune 500 manufacturer, which published its disability pay gap and then…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
Why Return-to-Office Mandates Hurt Women of Color Most
Lucas and Luna examine how return-to-office mandates disproportionately impact women of color, using a 2025 Lean In and McKinsey study showing that 42% of…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
How One Company Built a Truly Inclusive Recruiting Pipeline
Episode 3 of The Diversity Career Podcast digs into the mechanics of inclusive hiring beyond the job description. Lucas and Luna examine how a mid-sized tech…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
The Mentorship Gap for First-Gen Professionals
In this episode of The Diversity Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna dig into a specific challenge facing first-generation professionals: the mentorship gap. They…
- The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals
The 2020 Promise That Actually Worked
May 19, 2026. In June 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, hundreds of companies pledged to diversify their workforces. Five years later, most have little…