The fascinating research behind diversity, what it means for your bottom line, and strategies you can kick into action today to find, engage, and retain the best talent.

1. The Ultimate Case for Building a Diverse
Team, and How to Do It
#hiringfordiversity
@Andela @Lever
Wednesday May 11, 2016

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Our featured speaker
Jeremy Johnson
CEO and Co-Founder at
Andela
@JeremyJ
@Andela

4. Meet Tolu

5. According to the dictionary:

6. The current state of “diversity”
Source: Information
is Beautiful

7. ?

8. We need to look at different numbers.

9. Which factor leads to a 53% higher ROE?
● CEO at a company for 15+ years
● Founded in the last 30 years
● Female board representation
● Operate in > 100 countries

10. Why have a diverse board?
53%
higher
return on
equity
9.1%
13.9%

11. Diversity dividend

12. Strategies to Increase Your Return on
Talent

13. Recognize
our own
biases

14. Rethink your interview process

15. Expand your talent pipeline
Harvard’s graduating
computer science class
41%
Female
Hire beyond your own zip
code
20x
expanded
applicant
pool
Africa

19. Meanwhile, at Lever
#hiringfordiversity

20. Diversity at Lever
#hiringfordiversity
“I recently signed a contract with Lever, a recruiting software company. As I did a competitive bake-off with
alternatives, I paid a lot of attention to who interacted with me. My sales rep from Lever was a woman. My
onboarding was with a woman. My customer success manager is a woman. All of them have been
professional and competent. The product and service is phenomenal. The design, the
documentation, how well trained everyone is, the promptness of help and bug fixes, the
thoughtfulness of so many little things—they are nailing it. In comparison, another company assigned
me a white male sales rep who, despite past jobs as a recruiter, lacked training or experience, couldn’t help
me, and was often wrong and never in doubt. These companies have big differences in diversity in their staff:
Lever has a woman CEO/founder and quite a few women in leadership positions; the other company has
visibly less diversity at the leadership level and apparently advances the careers of underperforming white
men, judging by my experience. Draw your own conclusions, but I’ve seen enough examples that I don’t
think it’s coincidence.”
- Baron Schwartz, CEO of VividCortex

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