Using Career Frameworks to Lay the Foundation for Equitable Growth

What comes to your mind when you think of “bold promises” and “massive failures”? Political campaigns win the trophy at the universal level, closely followed by companies’ diversity promises. Women and marginalized groups are still drastically underrepresented when moving up the ranks, despite the business case for diversity and inclusion being stronger than ever.

As a systems thinker, Pando’s Founder Barbra Gago believes that many DEI programs fail because businesses prioritize diversity without putting the structures in place to support a diverse workplace. For example, they hire someone from an underrepresented group to their board. Still, employees or candidates from that same group face structural issues and biases in hiring and promotion within the organization.