The role of business in nurturing long-term diversity and inclusion | Rosalind G. Brewer

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🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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When companies think of diversity and inclusion, they too often focus on meeting metrics instead of building relationships with people of diverse backgrounds, says Starbucks COO Rosalind G. Brewer. In this personable and wide-ranging conversation with TED current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers, Brewer invites leaders to rethink what it takes to create a truly inclusive workplace -- and lays out how to bring real, grassroots change to boardrooms and communities alike.

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0:00.0	It's TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh.
0:06.6	Protests this summer in support of Black Lives led to a reckoning on race across the Western world.
0:12.2	And American companies are doing serious rethinking on how diversity and inclusion should take shape.
0:18.8	In today's episode, Starbucks C.OO, Rosalind G. Brewer
0:21.9	unpacks what we can do at work to better serve each other,
0:25.2	better include different voices,
0:26.8	and create the kind of environments
0:28.6	where everyone feels safe and motivated.
0:32.3	Brewer spoke with Ted's current affairs curator,
0:34.6	Whitney Pennington Rogers, at TED at BCG in 2020.
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1:14.8	Hi, Ros Brewer, thank you so much for being with us here today.
1:17.9	Thank you for having me.
1:19.9	We can just dive right in. I think we're right now in the last quarter of 2020.
1:25.9	And I think that a lot of people would agree that we're in the
1:29.5	midst of what's probably one of the largest reckonings around racial equity that we've had in this
1:34.1	country in decades. And it's something that you've been such a vocal advocate for and you're both
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