Author: Kira Sauerbrei

Pitch the Bitch underlines Kelly Ann’s overall mission to empower diverse women, marginalized communities, and their allies to understand why investment wealth gaps exist and how to close them. The title comes from the derogatory expression, “Don’t Pitch the Bitch” – popularized by the movie Boiler Room (2000) – that advised stockbrokers to avoid selling to women as […]

DEI is gaining a reputation these days. For some folks, DEI represents a positive movement that creates more fairness for everyone in the workplace and elsewhere. For others, it represents a dangerous ideology that threatens to reorient the focus of work from the nuts and bolts of business toward a form of performative political correctness. […]

Delaware Community Foundation recently announced several of their staff members completed the Diversity Crew Institute Certification! We’d at Diversity Crew would like to congratulate all those at DCF who completed these courses and certifications designed to foster immediate actions toward a more equitable and inclusive environment for their organization and in their community. Mike DiPaolo, Satheesh Nadarajah, […]

Not too long ago, in 1970, February became the month dedicated to celebrating the history and successes of Black Americans. It originally began as Negro History Week in 1926, proposed by Carter G. Woodson. In light of this necessary month, it’s essential to look beyond tokenism and give credit where credit is due. We must […]

Earlier this month, in PART 1 of this 2 part series, we looked at the ways that DEI Fatigue is a threat to your company, now let’s look at how to tackle some of the most common challenges organizations face with DEI fatigue today: Challenge: Not empowering DEI advocates The efforts that often start with […]

For every organization engaging with DEI efforts, the journey looks unique: each organization’s demographic makeup, DEI knowledge and willingness to get engaged, the underlying issues shaping the culture – and the efforts to remedy them – comprise a highly individual and complex tapestry. Interestingly, when discussing DEI initiatives with current practitioners in our research, we […]

When citizens of the United States experience a racial crisis, companies move toward damage control to mitigate the problem. As a result, leadership has added more people of color (POC) to leadership positions and created figurehead roles targeted toward diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). But what does this mean for the longevity of these roles? […]

Back in the day, when very few people knew anything about DEI, those who wanted diversity training inside their organizations often hired outside consultants. In many instances, the HR managers didn’t have the specific skills or backgrounds to address specific diversity challenges that were unique to that particular organization. So, they hired consultants who did […]

Each October, we are reminded just how important it is to support life-saving breast cancer research. It is a time of heightened awareness and reflection. This year, the team at Diversity Crew would not only like to aid in raising awareness, but we would like to propel conversations around how we, as a society, might […]