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To attract, develop, and retain top talent, organizations must equip their leaders to lead inclusively. This Field Guide provides scalable tools to help leaders cultivate environments that navigate the complexities of today’s diverse workplaces, advancing equity and progress.

Organizations committed to inclusivity and hearing varied opinions should be aware that upwardly mobile individuals in socially diverse professional environments, are often faced with hurdles to jump, for their views to be heard and heeded. Featuring CIL Faculty Affiliate Sean Martin

Gender equity is an organization-wide leadership issue best addressed by men and women working together as allies to the cause. Featuring CIL Core Faculty David Smith

Leaders seeking to foster inclusivity should be aware that a team’s collective intelligence—its general ability to make decisions, innovate, plan, and more—is significantly influenced by its hierarchal structure and also by its gender composition. Featuring CIL Faculty Affiliate Anna Mayo

Contrasting with an underrepresentation of women in other top rank senior roles, new analysis reveals an encouraging increase in female CHROs—which may help us better understand decisions relating to gender diversity, or lack of it, at the top of organizations. Featuring CIL Core Faculty Rick Smith

In the Harvard Business Review, CIL Core Faculty David Smith and colleagues highlight challenges with the way organizations approach leadership development for women

CIL Core Faculty Dave Smith and colleagues share a new study revealing a persistent gap between men and women in their perceptions of how men are truly showing up — or not — in the workplace.

Men are clearly positioned — owing to their gender-conferred privilege and their organizational power — to bring about workplace change, highlights CIL Core Faculty Dave Smith in this co-authored piece for the Harvard Business Review.

When women speak up about sexism or sexual harassment in these workplaces, they’re often met with the “good guy” defense, write CIL Core Faculty Dave Smith and colleagues in the Harvard Business Review.

The Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade has Americans on both sides of the abortion rights issue engulfed in high emotion. There is a lot of conjecture about how companies and their leaders should be speaking out, taking a stand and taking action. But what about “speaking in” to employees? CIL Core Faculty Dave Smith co-authored an opinion on how to do so for MarketWatch.

Who's Really the Victim Here? The controversial news that NYU Grossman School of Medicine was considering the hire of David Sabatini, PhD, shined a new light on sexual misconduct and harassment allegations in the workplace, highlight CIL Core Faculty Dave Smith and colleagues in this column for Medpage Today.

CIL Core Faculty Dave Smith and colleagues share insights on allyship and inclusion in an article for the Harvard Business Review.