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Innovating for Diversity: Lessons from Top Companies Achieving Business Success through Inclusivity
Discover what business visionaries on the frontiers of diverse and equitable hiring are doing to drive change in their organizations
In Innovating for Lessons from Top Companies That are Disrupting Old Practices to Achieve Inclusivity, Equity and Business Success, renowned Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and tech specialists Bertina Ceccarelli and Susanne Tedrick reframe the DEI discussion and move it beyond a human resources issue. While it's well established that diverse teams help to advance innovation, the authors explain how principles of innovation can be applied to building highly effective and sustainable diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices embraced by executives across an organization.
You'll be inspired by leaders at top companies who identified root causes of limited DEI progress and created smart, bold solutions for increasing representation, developing future talent, and advancing the careers of people often overlooked.
In the book, you'll also
Introductions to the people and companies who have innovated their approaches to diverse hiring, retention, and advancement, and enjoyed pronounced impact on their bottom lines Profiles of committed leaders driving the change towards a more diverse and inclusive workforce Strategies for breaking down the cultural and organizational barriers in companies that remain in place and prevent transformative change A critical resource for senior-level business professionals, managers, and executives, Innovating for Diversity will also prove to be invaluable for people seeking to build their careers from the ground up.
In Innovating for Lessons from Top Companies That are Disrupting Old Practices to Achieve Inclusivity, Equity and Business Success, renowned Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and tech specialists Bertina Ceccarelli and Susanne Tedrick reframe the DEI discussion and move it beyond a human resources issue. While it's well established that diverse teams help to advance innovation, the authors explain how principles of innovation can be applied to building highly effective and sustainable diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices embraced by executives across an organization.
You'll be inspired by leaders at top companies who identified root causes of limited DEI progress and created smart, bold solutions for increasing representation, developing future talent, and advancing the careers of people often overlooked.
In the book, you'll also
Introductions to the people and companies who have innovated their approaches to diverse hiring, retention, and advancement, and enjoyed pronounced impact on their bottom lines Profiles of committed leaders driving the change towards a more diverse and inclusive workforce Strategies for breaking down the cultural and organizational barriers in companies that remain in place and prevent transformative change A critical resource for senior-level business professionals, managers, and executives, Innovating for Diversity will also prove to be invaluable for people seeking to build their careers from the ground up.
223 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 22, 2023
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June 3, 2026
This is a HR pamphlet meant to be inspiring, not an evidence-based business strategy. Ceccarelli and Tedrick’s book mainly depends on corporate cheerleading and cherry-picked success stories rather than solid data. When you actually test their claims against resonable evidence, their whole argument falls apart.
The authors only look at a handful of companies. But a huge meta-analysis in the Journal of Management shows that the direct link between demographic diversity and financial performance is actually zero. The book claims diversity always boosts innovation. Nope. Research shows creativity follows an inverted U-shaped curve. Too much cognitive difference causes big coordination issues, slowing everything down.
The authors treat teamwork friction as a simple HR fix. Data from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) shows diverse teams tend to split into hostile subgroups, which leads to higher stress and more rapid turnover. The book makes bold promises of automatic financial gains, but Harvard Business Review calls that out, explaining that diversity doesn’t make a difference unless you invest heavily in external managers and long-term training. In most cases, evidence shows the juice is not worth the squeeze.
The authors only look at a handful of companies. But a huge meta-analysis in the Journal of Management shows that the direct link between demographic diversity and financial performance is actually zero. The book claims diversity always boosts innovation. Nope. Research shows creativity follows an inverted U-shaped curve. Too much cognitive difference causes big coordination issues, slowing everything down.
The authors treat teamwork friction as a simple HR fix. Data from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) shows diverse teams tend to split into hostile subgroups, which leads to higher stress and more rapid turnover. The book makes bold promises of automatic financial gains, but Harvard Business Review calls that out, explaining that diversity doesn’t make a difference unless you invest heavily in external managers and long-term training. In most cases, evidence shows the juice is not worth the squeeze.
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