Press Releases
2008
2007
- Diversity is Top Priority of America's Most Successful Companies (PDF)
- Kaiser Permanente CEO Received Diversity Leadership Award (PR Newswire)
- Johnson Controls CEO Receives National Diversity Leadership Award (PR Newswire)
- MGM MIRAGE Chairman & CEO Terry Lanni Honored for Diversity Leadership
(CNN Money)
Notable Quotes
We at Diversity Best Practices want to stress that while we do care about creating culture change here on our soil, we also want to create culture change around the world.
— Michael C. Ford, President, Diversity Best Practices
Thank you Diversity Best Practices for including this issue (issues about the GLBT community) as part of your best practices. It is extremely important and it is cutting edge.
— Elizabeth Birch, former Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign
The companies that get this (diversity and inclusion) are going to win. Inclusion and diversity and developing global talent is absolutely number one. If we do it then we will win, and if we don't then I'm sure we will succeed but I'll tell you; we won't be able to stand there with the best of the best like we did today.
— John Barth, Chairman and CEO, Johnson Controls, Inc.
We at Merrill Lynch are committed to the idea that true diversity is the diversity of thought. We want to thank Diversity Best Practices for the insight and wisdom that you bring to us in the area of diversity and inclusion. It has been very important to the progress within our company and to diversity practitioners like me.
— Subha Barry, Managing Director and Head of Global Diversity and Inclusion for Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Diversity work is hard work and people will sometimes opt out unless they know it's a top priority, so you have to ensure that they know that it is.
— G. Kennedy Thompson, Chairman and CEO, Wachovia Corporation