72 countries around the globe prohibit discrimination in employment because of sexual orientation. The United States is not one of them. Many people assume that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights includes Federal Government protections based on sexual...
Everyone has heard it. By 2020, the population of White Americans will no longer make up the majority of the US population. In 45 years, people in the US self-identifying as having “two or more races” will grow faster than any other group. With these changing...
“Cultural Dexterity for Turbulent Times” is the theme of this year’s SIETAR Europa Congress coming up May 22-27 in Dublin Ireland. Elmer Dixon, President of Executive Diversity Services, will be there to present on the Challenges in Policing Diverse Communities. Dixon...
The Jewish Holiday of Passover and the Christian celebration of Easter falling so close on the calendar may have prompted an increase in interfaith conversations in the workplace this year, as employees prepared for their respective family celebrations. For companies...
“Honoring Trailblazing Women in Labor and Business” is the National Women’s History Month 2017 Theme and there is no one more fitting to spotlight than Wilhelmina Parker-Bentum, Training Officer, City of Berkeley. Over the past year, Parker-Bentum, amongst...
Diversity & Inclusion training programs are only as effective as the willingness of leadership to demonstrate and model inclusion. “When managers, supervisors and leaders model inclusive behaviors, employees are going to follow,” says Elmer Dixon, President of...
Elmer Dixon, president of Executive Diversity Services, was the Featured Speaker among dozens of artists and performers at the 2017 Festival Sundiata’s Black History Month “Cultural Xpressions”. The Sundiata African American Cultural Association presented the event...
An anonymous donor commissioned Seattle Artist Adrienne La Faye to paint portraits of “black icons of the past” to exhibit around Seattle, and brothers Aaron and Elmer Dixon were front center in the exhibit of her work as well as in the history of the civil rights...
Social Justice and Inclusion have always been intertwined. At Executive Diversity Services our focus is on understanding cultural differences and creating greater inclusion in the workplace, but we don't do it at the expense of understanding the root causes of racism,...