New Perspectives on Diversity in the Boardroom: To Curate, Obligate or Legislate?

Diversity in the boardroom and the C-suite remains a top priority, but we must take the dialogue deeper and become more creative in our approach. While giving current efforts a chance to yield significant results, it is time to apply less prescriptive approaches to achieve remarkable diversity in our boardrooms.

Let me define diversity in the board context. It is a wide-ranging set of skills, age, experience, culture, education and mindset — not just the overtly familiar characteristics of race and gender. I submit that a combination of quantitative and qualitative data will also drive greater results and more productively refocus the narrative.

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