August 31, 2022

LCLD Diversity News Digest

Here you’ll find the latest diversity, equity, and inclusion news, resources, tips, and thought leadership, curated biweekly for today’s legal leaders—LCLD’s Members—and Diversity Professionals.

On the Need for Equity in America

New Study Provides Unique Snapshot of Legal Department Diversity

“A first-of-its-kind survey of legal department diversity found that the departments are making more headway than law firms but still have substantial room for improvement.”  Corporate Counsel

Is the Pipeline Really Empty? Top Leadership Positions Still Lack Diversity

A look at the state of diversity in leadership across a range of industries, from higher education to professional sports, and what your organization can do about it.  Forbes

DEI Development

Research: People Can Learn to Recognize Their Racial Privilege

Reflecting on one’s own experiences of both advantage and disadvantage can aid in empathizing with a team’s diverse set of lived experiences, ultimately charting a path to true allyship.  Harvard Business Review

DEI Initiatives Shouldn’t Be About Perfection. They Should Be About Progress.

This Gallup analysis presents the “essential questions that reveal if your DEI initiatives are being felt and experienced by employees,” and offers a guide to advancing DEI for organizational leaders.  Gallup

Key Strategies to Successfully Implement Transformational Change

Former Deloitte partner Tony Cooper offers lessons learned and top tips for creating empowerment through transformational leadership.  Corporate Counsel

Resilient Organizations Make Psychological Safety a Strategic Priority

“To weather uncertainty, organizations need to look beyond individual well-being and make psychological safety a strategic priority, creating a culture where employees can comfortably raise concerns, contribute ideas, and share unique perspectives.”  Harvard Business Review

LCLD Leads on DE&I

Gibson Dunn Offers Partnership to Diversity Chief

“When I think about who’s eligible for partnership, I think about contribution in very broad terms,” says Chair and MP Barbara Becker of the newly promoted Zakiyyah Salim-Williams. “Zakiyyah has been instrumental in client and community engagement, and she strengthens the sense of community at the firm.”  Bloomberg Law

‘Inspirational Leaders Are Vulnerable’: How Humble Upbringing Shaped Meta Lawyer’s Priorities

“Inspirational leaders display a consistent set of behaviors that make their calls to action believable, the overtures credible, and their decisions predictable,” says 2016 Fellow Andrew Cooper, highlighting the importance of clear communication, vulnerability, and “signal-boosting.”  Corporate Counsel

For T-Mobile, Transparency, and Accountability Are Key to a Successful DE&I Strategy

Why and how T-Mobile has already delivered on half of its 54 DEI “promises” by aligning goals across the business.  Forbes

What Clients Are Saying About DEI

Common themes and takeaways Troutman Pepper has gathered from client feedback on DEI partnerships.  JDSupra

Leading for Tomorrow

​​To Be a Better Leader, Practice Active Listening

Examples of how different listening styles play out in interactions between leaders, colleagues, and employees.  Inc. Magazine

Reimagining the Workplace

Rekindling a Sense of Community at Work

Explore ways leaders have successfully (re)built many different senses of community in the workplace.  Harvard Business Review

UPCOMING EVENTS
Members & Diversity Professionals

SEPTEMBER 22–23    ||   LCLD Members + Guests
13th Annual LCLD Membership Meeting
It's official: the annual LCLD Membership Meeting will convene in person this fall! Accenture CEO Julie Sweet and NYU Law professor Kenji Yoshino will join us in launching the next phase of Leaders at the Front: Transforming Tomorrow.

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