

It’s Time to Embrace Older Workers
The unstoppable trend in workforce demographics is the increasing importance of millennials and, more recently, Gen Z in the labor pool. These two cohorts already account for over one-third of the U.S. workforce, and will represent well over half the workforce within ten years. This trend has probably been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, based on recent data reported on by Allison Morrow in an article for CNN, which suggests that a combination of COVID fears and financi


Marines Recruit DEI Advisor
When one thinks about the recruitment efforts of the U.S. Marine Corps, it’s understandable that the image would be one of a young man walking into a recruitment office in a strip mall somewhere and finding himself with a newly shaved head in boot camp a short while later. But the Marines are a large and sophisticated organization with hundreds of thousands of personnel, and their staffing needs go far beyond front-line fighters. A recent job posting by the Marines seeks a di


Why Your DEI Training May be Missing the Mark: And How to Get Back on Track
If you ask someone directly about their biases towards women, minorities, certain religious groups, etc., you're likely to hear something like: "I don't have any biases against anyone!" That may reflect someone's fear of exposing biases they are aware of or it could very well represent someone who is legitimately unaware of their prejudices against certain groups. We call this unconscious bias, and it impacts all of us. We all have some inherent biases that impact aspects of