If anyone could have predicted that the post-2020 focus on DEI would fade away, it was DEI practitioners.
DEI practitioners like Lily Zheng, fairness strategist and consultant. When Zheng started DEI consulting in the late 2010s, their work focused on helping companies move beyond one-off, 60-minute learning and development sessions and toward long-term DEI strategies. In their book, Fixing Fairness: 4 Tenets to Transform Diversity Backlash into Progress for Al, Zheng examines how companies can continue
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