The Ultimate Case for Building a Diverse Team, and How to Do It

#hiringfordiversity@Andela @Lever

Wednesday May 11, 2016

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Kiran DhillonContent Marketing ManagerLever@kirandhillon4

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Jeremy JohnsonCEO and Co-Founder at Andela@JeremyJ@Andela

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According to the dictionary:

The current state of “diversity”

Source: Information is Beautiful

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We need to look at different numbers.

Which factor leads to a 53% higher ROE?

● CEO at a company for 15+ years

● Founded in the last 30 years

● Female board representation

● Operate in > 100 countries

Why have a diverse board?

53% higher

return on equity

9.1%

13.9%

Diversity dividend

Strategies to Increase Your Return on Talent

Recognize our own biases

Rethink your interview process

Expand your talent pipeline

Harvard’s graduating computer science class

41%Female

Hire beyond your own zip code

20x expanded applicant

pool

Africa

Meanwhile, at Lever

#hiringfordiversity

Diversity at Lever

#hiringfordiversity

“I recently signed a contract with Lever, a recruiting software company. As I did a competitive bake-off with alternatives, I paid a lot of attention to who interacted with me. My sales rep from Lever was a woman. My onboarding was with a woman. My customer success manager is a woman. All of them have been professional and competent. The product and service is phenomenal. The design, the documentation, how well trained everyone is, the promptness of help and bug fixes, the thoughtfulness of so many little things—they are nailing it. In comparison, another company assigned me a white male sales rep who, despite past jobs as a recruiter, lacked training or experience, couldn’t help me, and was often wrong and never in doubt. These companies have big differences in diversity in their staff: Lever has a woman CEO/founder and quite a few women in leadership positions; the other company has visibly less diversity at the leadership level and apparently advances the careers of underperforming white men, judging by my experience. Draw your own conclusions, but I’ve seen enough examples that I don’t think it’s coincidence.”

- Baron Schwartz, CEO of VividCortex

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