#352: How DEI transforms organizations with Donald Thompson, The Diversity Movement
The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström®: Expert Mode Marketing Technology, AI, & CX
The Agile Brand
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🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Today we’re going to talk about how diversity, equity, and inclusion can play a transformational role in any organization.
To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Donald Thompson, CEO & Co-Founder of The Diversity Movement, and author of Underestimated: A CEO’s Unlikely Path to Succcess.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to season five of the Agile Brand with Greg Kielström, where we talk with enterprise |
| 0:06.7 | and technology platform leaders about the people, processes, and platforms that make marketing |
| 0:11.7 | and customer experience successful, scalable, and sustainable. |
| 0:16.0 | This is what creates an Agile Brand. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm your host, Greg Kielström, advisor and consultant for Fortune 1000 Marketing and |
| 0:22.5 | CX leaders and teams as principal and chief strategist at GK5A and bestselling author |
| 0:29.2 | keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and Agile Certified Coach. |
| 0:33.6 | The Agile Brand podcast is brought to you by TechSystems, an industry leader in full stack |
| 0:38.0 | technology services, talent services, and real world application. |
| 0:42.8 | For more information, go to tksystems.com. |
| 0:47.4 | To sign up for the Agile Brand newsletter and get the latest insights and articles on |
| 0:51.1 | marketing technology and CX, or to purchase a copy of my latest book, House of the |
| 0:56.0 | Customer, go to GregKielström.com. |
| 0:59.3 | You can also find all my books on Amazon and other retailers. |
| 1:03.0 | Now onto the show. |
| 1:07.2 | Today we're going to talk about how diversity, equity, and inclusion can play a transformational |
| 1:11.6 | role in any organization. |
| 1:13.8 | To help me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome Donald Thompson, CEO and co-founder |
| 1:18.5 | of the Diversity Movement, and author of Under Estimated, a CEO's unlikely path to |
| 1:24.3 | success. |
| 1:25.3 | Donald, welcome to the show. |
| 1:27.1 | Very glad to be here. |
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