Coronavirus: Workplace Diversity Part One

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

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Self-improvement, Business, Investing, Education

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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If the pandemic has acted as an accelerant to business trends, it has also become an accelerant to inequality. Last year, before the onset of coronavirus, the Census Bureau found income inequality was at its highest level in 50 years, with two-thirds of the total wealth in the country owned by the richest 5-percent. Meanwhile, 4 out of 10 American adults said they would have difficulty covering a $400 unexpected expense, more than 38 million Americans are living in poverty, and more than 14 million children went hungry last month. When discussing these facts and figures, it is important to remember that there are people behind the numbers. To do a deeper dive with us on this topic, we're joined by Dane Holmes, co-founder and CEO at Eskalera, a diversely founded company, committed to providing employees and managers with the knowledge and skills to build a more inclusive culture and helping organizations drive systemic and sustainable change. Have a money question? Email me here. Please leave us a rating or review in Apple Podcasts. "Jill on Money" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jill on Money Coronavirus Market Update. It is Saturday August 1st.
0:09.6	And this weekend we've got a great interview with a friend of mine. His name is Dane Holmes. I met him a long time ago. We were on a board together and his career has been so fascinating.
0:22.6	He is an HR professional.
0:25.2	If you can believe it, yes, there are normal people who go into that side of the business.
0:29.4	They tend to be wonderful people who we don't really respect when everything's just
0:34.3	poking around and going as is and then when really crazy issues flare up or where we
0:40.0	see discrepancies in the workplace, then we need them.
0:43.0	So Dane worked at Goldman Sachs for many years
0:46.6	and now has gone to help found a company called Escalera.
0:51.4	So we're gonna talk about his effort to improve diversity and inclusion by
0:56.3	starting this company and his own experience as well. So here's my
1:01.8	interview with Dane Holmes. So Dane, full disclosure, Dane and I serve on the board of a nonprofit together. That's how I know you. But you also were very early in this idea that you
1:19.2	have to like actually care about the people in an organization.
1:22.8	So can you tell us a little bit about,
1:25.5	before we talk about the new company,
1:27.4	tell us a little bit about you and your career
1:30.2	because when I first met you,
1:31.9	you were working at a place called Goldman Sachs.
1:34.6	So what's the story of Dane Holmes?
1:36.6	What's the origin story?
1:39.3	Sure, I'll try and give you a brief one.
1:42.8	So just a little bit of background.
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