Bernadette Smith Helps Organizations to integrate Equity & inclusion Principles

As a leader in an organization, your
dedication to excellence will determine your equitable standing among both
internal and external stakeholders. It will show how seriously you take
learning, growing, and prospering as someone in power. Having a diverse
workforce leads to happier and healthier employees, more respected customers,
and better access to the required talent and skillsets for an organization to
succeed. A study conducted by the Harvard Business Review found that companies
with diverse teams had a 19% higher innovation revenue.

Bernadette Smith is an expert in helping
organizations integrate principles of equity and inclusion across all their
functions. She is the CEO and founder of the Equality Institute and has won the
IBPA Benjamin Franklin Booksellers Gold Medal Award for three books on LGBTQ
inclusion. Bernadette is frequently requested as a keynote speaker to encourage
an inclusive work environment and celebrate diversity.

Bernadette has consulted with Fortune
500 companies and presented to various audiences, including CEOs, leadership
teams, human resource and diversity leaders, and sales and marketing
professionals, among others. Due to her insight and impact as a change agent,
she has been featured in reputable publications such as the New York Times, USA
Today, the Washington Post, and Fast Company. She has also appeared on CNN, the
Today Show, the BBC, and National Public Radio. Bernadette has been named one
of Chicago's Notable LGBTQ Executives by Crain's Chicago Business.

This week, Bernadette joined me to share
more information on the topic. For more information, please visit
https://www.theequalityinstitute.com/speaking.