I’m spending February with my family on Gabrielino-Tongva-Kitz Lands just outside Los Angeles – which feels like a very different place since the last time I was here.
With everything going on, it seemed like an opportune moment to reflect on the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), and the alleged merit of merit-based board and staff recruitment and quotas.
So, here’s an extract from my latest ‘and another thing’ vlog:
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The episode draws from or references:
- What we know about Trump’s order on ending DEI programs, ABC news
- Peter Dutton says young men are ‘fed up’ with being ostracised under ‘woke’ diversity practices, The Nightly
- Paul Smith on the issue of ‘merit-based hiring’, LinkedIn
- Kon Karapanagiotidis on merit, Instagram
- Fear of the Q word by Anne Summers, Griffith Review
- In the eye of the beholder: Avoiding the merit trap, Chief Executive Women and the Champions of Change Coalition
- Cultural safety: Beyond inclusion by Ruth De Souza, The Relationship is the Project
- Amidst cruelty and chaos, a world that’s on her way by Vu Le, NonProfit AF
- Black Books Matter shirt by Mahogany Books
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