
Valerie Williams is a diversity champion and community builder with over 16 years of experience advocating for fairness and equity in the workplace. Prior to launching Converge, Valerie served as Global Head of Inclusion & Diversity at Stripe, and helped create the foundational Diversity and Belonging program at Airbnb. Valerie has extensive executive, business and technical recruiting experience at Google, Airbnb, and Russell Reynolds, as well as four years of supply chain and operations experience at Hewlett Packard.
Valerie joined The DEI is: Podcast to explore how we can harness “hockey stick moments'' for real growth—the “hockey stick moments'' in question being 1) an inciting incident followed by 2) a sharp uptick in interest around DEI followed by . . . well, not too much of anything! So, how do we move from commitment to DEI work to making real strides in those efforts? Tune in to find out!
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📰Full Transcript - https://diveritypbc.substack.com/p/dei-is-harnessing-hockey-stick-moments?sd=pf9
📺Check Out the Video on YouTube - https://youtu.be/iw3Rmhntmwk