Breaking Down Diversity in Tech, One Company At a Time
summary
A company launches Spectrum year-long initiative and claims concrete progress: a coalition of 10–20 regulars runs monthly meetings that pair a brainstorm session with a follow-up work session, uses polls to prioritize topics, and tracks small wins in recruiting, retention and marketing stories. The tools are explicit — stated intention, coalition building, listening, prioritized pilots — and the result is incremental but real: pilot policies and practices rolled out and iterated rather than a promised vague roadmap.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:51About Substantial
- 3:30Spectrum
- 4:42Overview
- 5:49State Your Intention
- 7:33Build a Coalition
- 9:25Listen
- 10:46Its going to get uncomfortable
- 12:27Start small
- 13:43Think about the big picture
- 14:13Make everyone a winner
- 15:10Be realistic
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