Banking Industry Addresses Diversity, Adding Women To Boards

Neena Newberry has run a leadership development company for more than 15 years. Here are the most common missteps she sees. I get it: Choosing a leadership development program isn’t easy. On one hand, you know that leadership training is important to employees—more than half of them want this kind of development.

A hospital on Vancouver Island prioritized the Indigenous community’s needs and culture to will offer a new healthcare model. Canada’s history, like that of the United States, is fraught with the mistreatment of Indigenous peoples. This is especially true in terms of medical care, as Canada is still reconciling a legacy of so-called “Indian hospitals” that were racially segregated and provided native peoples with poor care.

Gas utilities see certified gas as a way to sell low-carbon fuel at a premium. U. S. senators want the FTC to investigate their claims. A growing effort by the fossil fuel industry to sell natural gas as a low-carbon fuel is little more than greenwashing, according to a new report by climate advocacy organizations.

This 2024 Leader in Diversity feels she was a detective in a past life.

New research from the Dutch NGO Rutgers found that 38% of women worldwide reported personal experiences with online violence. Globally, one in three women—or 736 million people—have experienced violence of some sort, whether from an intimate partner, sexual assault, or both. Much of that offline violence is linked to online habits, according to a new report from Dutch NGO Rutgers, which was launched today at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.

This Leader in Diversity was recognized as a United Nations DPI NGO speaker.