The CDO for global computing giant Lenovo impacts the bottom line by blending East and West Yolanda Conyers, vice president of global human resources and chief diversity officer for Lenovo, has a challenging role—leveraging diversity and inclusion in a global company with a Chinese heritage. Since 2007...

Although Corporate America has spent years implementing diversity and inclusion (D&I) programs, black and Latino women still remain underrepresented at mid- and senior-level positions. According to recent data from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, black women are 7.6 percent of the private sector workforce, but...

“As a leader, what are you doing to champion diversity and inclusion at Cisco?” From left to right: Susie Wee, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, DevNet Innovations • My leadership team is over half female in a male-dominated industry. When I hire, I don’t make compromises—I...

Learning to disconnect from the job can help you become more engaged at home and work By Kimberly Olson By appearances, Hajar Shirley had a good life. A successful business technology leader, she was married to her college sweetheart and had two young children. But something was...

Cheryl Boone Isaacs, recently retired president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was the driving force behind many changes in Hollywood—including the academy’s diversification By Jackie Krentzman When Cheryl Boone Isaacs was trying to launch a career in publicity in Hollywood in the 1970s,...

Procter & Gamble’s chief diversity officer believes that we must bring an empathy lens to both our organization and our personal life By Julissa McClean William P. Gipson lives the Procter & Gamble motto every day: he is “touching lives and improving life,” through his work at P&G and...