Special Guest: Jodi Davidson, Sodexo
Jodi has spent the last 17 years with Sodexo in the D&I arena. She has seen how D&I evolve, especially as the digital era and social media have become bigger and more prevalent in society. She also has a great understanding of the constant and rapid change within the D&I space and the need not always to be looking at changing your programs, but also the need to self-educate as well.
Today's Podcast Perspective
- Jodi talks about how she got in the D&I Space
- D&I 17 years ago has evolved 10x over
- Social Media's impact on D&I over the years and how we have had to pivot.
- An organization's once perceived as trailblazers were then seen as having a burning platform
- Professions, Equity, and Internal Organic Growth was put on a spotlight
- As the world has moved to the digital era, opportunities have become more obvious
- Rhetoric that comes out that may not even be a reality, so organizations need to counter rhetoric with reality often
- External Communication of programs and employee feelings of an organization
- The complexity of D&I can be very different depending on the company - service businesses are much more complicated
- Better than to go fast - addressing D&I in a complex business takes time
- Middle management often is the stopgap that controls the success of D&I
- Enabling management to do the right thing and imbed D&I into the infrastructure of the organization
- Lower Level Manager's actually can implement D&I practices WITHOUT a formal program coming from the top; it can help the Manager grow
- When a manager deploys a program or idea that creates a higher level of profitability, it puts a positive spotlight on what they are doing
- Driving D&I without corporate financial support
- Everyone can and does have ownership - we hire a person for a reason
- 17 years - looking back - what could have been done differently?
- Recognizing that leader of D&I are also a student
- Time to Innovate and Celebrate the Wins knowing there is more that can be done!
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Jodi Davidson
Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion
Sodexo
A world leader in Food and Facilities Management Services www.sodexoUSA.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodidavidson1/
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