HRDA Shorts: How Have Definitions and Understandings of DEI Evolved, and How Has This Impacted Organizational Approaches?

While DEI is a well known acronym in the corporate world, companies only began developing and investing in diversity training programs in the mid 1960s following the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As the years have passed, the definitions and understand of what diversity, equity, and inclusion mean have changed. Reggie Willis, Chief Diversity Officer at Ally Financial Inc, weighs in on what that means for organizational strategy.