Leverage Everyone’s Potential

“I'm color-blind and gender-blind; I treat everyone the same.” Many outstanding leaders have long operated this way. In reality, each of us wants to be treated as a unique individual, not as carbon copies of each other.

Fair-mindedness sometimes means being mindful of differences. Recognizing the diverse ways that employees view or experience situations is part of being an insightful and courageous leader.

With White Men as Full Diversity Partners, business leaders understand the fallacy of assuming that everyone is just like them – with the same life experiences, beliefs, priorities, needs and aspirations.

Leaders come away appreciating how their organizational culture is a composite of many individual perspectives and subcultures, including a dominant white male culture. There's nothing wrong with that culture – but its impact on the organization needs to be recognized. Leaders appreciate the difference between treating everyone equally and treating everyone equitably.  

Understanding and valuing each individual’s unique contribution, leads to:

  • open and productive communications
  • inspired teamwork
  • an environment that supports creative ideas and innovation 
  • business advantage
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We invite men and women of color to say: How are you impacting the process? What is it that you need to learn about your own assumptions that either enhance or inhibit the very things you say you want to see in your organization? What of that do you own? Not to take on the responsibility that belongs to white men - but how are we showing up?

Jo Ann Morris, Founding Partner

What's New
  • Save the Date: Women of Different Tribes Caucus

    We've set the date for the 2012 offering of the Women of Different Tribe's Caucus. At the Caucus, you will gain new awareness, build skills to forge meaningful cross-cultural partnership and create a Leader's Action Plan to help apply learning. Mark your calendars for September 24-27, 2012. More information will follow. Download a Caucus flyer.

  • Bill Proudman to present at DRI's Diversity for Success Seminar

    Advancing Diversity: The Critical Role of Non-Diverse, White Male Partners
    Bill Proudman, cofounder of White Men as Full Diversity Partnerswill discuss the importance of diversity, the reasons why non-diverse attorneys need to be onboard and engaged in diversity initiatives, and how these joint efforts not only promote diversity but also the bottom line. Learn more about this seminar sponsored by DRI: The Voice of the Defense Bar.

  • A Leader's Investment

    "It's never easy to give up the better part of a work week, but this event is well worth it. More than any other training or discussions I have previously participated in, I left this event with a deeper personal understanding of diversity and inclusion issues on both an intellectual and emotional level. More importantly, I left with an improved understanding of how I can be a better leader in a diverse environment. I recommend this for all senior leaders. If you choose to attend, bring an open mind and a willingness to fully participate."

    Ted D. Crandall, Senior Vice President & CFO for Rockwell Automation

  • Diversity Matters: You Are Kidding Right?

    This article was published in the March 2009 Linkage Leader eNewsletter - a free, monthly eNewsletter that offers industry leaders' viewpoints, best practices, and relevant information. "The response to the suggestion to create a white men's affinity group is often some laughter, a rolling of the eyes accompanied by a statement like, "What the heck do the white guys need a network for, when everyday at work is already a white men's group?..." Read full article

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