Arielle Patrick, Chief Communications Officer at Ariel Investments – the nation’s first Black-owned asset management firm – will walk through the results of the second Black Corporate Directors Study, which surveys Black and Latino Fortune 500 board directors on the state of corporate DEI. Learn how and why DEI momentum has shifted in public company boardrooms, and what steps corporate America can take to ensure that it remains at the top of its agenda.

The last few years have seen unprecedented times for the US workforce – from the COVID-19 Pandemic to “quiet quitting” to economic shifts – business leaders are at the helm of institutionalizing a new way of approaching work-life integration as part of talent strategy. Helen Boter, People Leader at Microsoft US, shares practices and techniques rooted in empathy that help leaders reframe workplace culture to balance employee productivity with wellbeing.

Arielle Patrick, Chief Communications Officer at Ariel Investments – the nation’s first Black-owned asset management firm – will walk through the results of the second Black Corporate Directors Study, which surveys Black and Latino Fortune 500 board directors on the state of corporate DEI. Learn how and why DEI momentum has shifted in public company boardrooms, and what steps corporate America can take to ensure that it remains at the top of its agenda.

The last few years have seen unprecedented times for the US workforce – from the COVID-19 Pandemic to “quiet quitting” to economic shifts – business leaders are at the helm of institutionalizing a new way of approaching work-life integration as part of talent strategy. Helen Boter, People Leader at Microsoft US, shares practices and techniques rooted in empathy that help leaders reframe workplace culture to balance employee productivity with wellbeing.