Episode #7: A Diversity Deficit in Leadership Teams: Why it exists and how to change it

This episode answers two key questions: (1) What explains the deficit of diversity in leadership teams? and (2) How can organizations change this reality?  To answer these questions, we must explore the relationship between grit, lived experience, diversity, homeostasis - a complex form of inertia that plagues too many management teams, and the perceived risk of difference held by too many leaders.  To offer some perspective, I have a special guest, Dr. Nancy Wallis, who will share her leadership journey with us and how she recently had to grapple with how difficult it is for some leadership teams to introduce diversity.  This episode concludes with three key recommendations to help organizations bring more diversity into their leadership teams.