Engagement, Employer Branding and Measuring DEI Efforts
In episode 460 of the HRchat podcast, we consider ways organizations measure diversity and how it can impact the employer brand.
My guest is Janet M. Stovall, Global Head of DEI at the NeuroLeadership Institute, a global neuroscience-backed consultancy advising companies including Boeing, Microsoft, Netflix, and Zoom on DEI and workplace culture.
Questions include:
- Why do you say components of DEI are subjective?
- How are organizations currently measuring diversity, how should they?
- How can measuring diversity impact an employee’s perception of a company?
- What tools of measurement for DEI no longer work?
More About Janet M. Stovall to Global Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
A global DEI speaker and thought leader, Stovall’s three TED talks challenging business to get serious about inclusion have 2.5 million views collectively. Ragan Communications named her among the Top Women in Communications and a Diversity Champion.
Janet is NLI’s global practice leader on DEI, where she helps to impact millions of leaders around the world to advance DEI at their organizations. She guides the firm’s DEI research agenda, communications, talent and leadership practices and contributes directly to the development of its scalable learning solutions.
She has over 20 years of expertise leading diversity initiatives and strategies for a variety of Fortune 500 companies with a proven track record of driving growth and stimulating conversations on DEI.
Janet was previously a senior client strategist at NLI where she used science to make DEI more effective for clients. Prior to NLI, Stovall was senior director, social impact for the UPS Foundation, working to advance UPS’s global philanthropy, social impact and community efforts.