Michaela Ayers shares her experiences on diversity and inclusion as a lead with the Diversity Task Force at Payscale, a compensation research company. Objectives include teaching people the language needed to talk about inequities as a precursor to thinking about them and ensuring everyone feels safe to bring their whole selves to the workplace. She emphasizes that leadership must set the example, as employees need to see leaders modeling and embodying principles of diversity & inclusion. It’s critical that executives buy in and fully understand what inclusive leadership looks like. Data can help measure program success or highlight areas for improvement. Companies often try to recruit diverse talent pools – but the culture must support inclusion or talent will seek other employers that do. As a Millennial leader, Michaela blends work and community inclusion initiatives through Nourish, her social impact organization. Nourish brings people into a community conversation about race, creating an openness to engage diversity.

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