Weaving Diversity and Inclusion into Your Employer Brand

“Diversity and Inclusion isn’t just the right thing to do - there’s a clear business case for it,” said Yasmin Zarabi, head of business development for Entelo, at a recent diversity and inclusion event earlier this year. But how do we relay that to leadership, internal team members and importantly, our own candidate audience?

That was the topic of Thursday’s panel, hosted by Sapling in downtown San Francisco, where the company brought together talent acquisition professionals and employer branding aficionados to discuss what it takes to not only walk the talk, but talk the talk and make sure the right ears are listening. I was honored to be a panelist among thought leaders including Erin Carter, recently head of D&I at Planet; Steven Huang, head of D&I at Culture Amp; Natalie Simmons, D&I at Zendesk and Albrey Brown, senior program manager for D&I at Pivotal Software.