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The nature of business is constant change. In order to remain successful, a company must stay on the leading edge of best practices, actively collect information, and leverage past successes to achieve its vision for the future.
Our Resources pages bring you new information, strategies, and metrics from some of the most influential leaders in business, talent, diversity, and management practices in the world. These are the resources and insights we use to stay on top of the ever-changing business marketplace.
The Best Opportunity You’ve Never Heard About: ERGs, Next Gen Women
July 28th, 2010
The Best Opportunity You’ve Never Heard About: ERGs and the Development of Next Generation of Women Leaders.
Picture the most efficient, productive, and innovative organization you can imagine. What does it look like? Who works there? How are things executed? Chances are that it resembles a highly-advanced form of an Employee Resource Group (ERG), [...]
Diversity + Social Media
February 9th, 2010
Diversity and inclusion practitioners are always looking for new ways to engage employees and drive business performance. Social media, and the Web 2.0 experience, has created multiple new ways of communicating with employees, clients and business partners. Innovative companies realize one-way speeches to employees and customers are not as effective. Today, progressive leaders realize the [...]
Read MoreDiversity, Leadership, Innovation™
December 7th, 2009
This report helps managers and practitioners across the business link diversity, leadership, and innovation in a way that ensures business impact. It describes JBC’s mission to help companies strategically align diversity and inclusion initiatives to bottom line-producing practices. Internal champions must articulate the benefits of this approach to both the employee and the business, influencing [...]
Read MoreUnlocking ERG Potential
December 7th, 2009
Employee engagement, social connections, networking and leadership development … all of these critical benefits are occurring at the heart of most large companies, in their Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). How can these groups not only continue to serve as all?important “connective tissue”, but start to find new, even more business aligned ways to add value?
Read MoreWorkplace Inclusion: Transgender
November 3rd, 2009
On October 29, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of New York City hosted a panel discussion on successful workplace transitions for transgender employees. Jennifer moderated the panel, which included leaders from corporations, advocacy groups, and small businesses. Contact us to find out how JBC can help make your company more LGBT [...]
Read MoreNALC West Summary
October 30th, 2009
On October 20, 2009, JBC collaborated with Diversity Best Practices as the thought partner for NALC West, held in San Francisco. The event was attended by over 100 ERG leaders and program managers to explore ERG strategies, share best practices, and develop action plans.
This document attempts to combine participant ideas from NALC’s final “Gallery [...]
Jennifer Brown in The Advocate: Beyond Benefits
September 22nd, 2009
Diversity consultant Jennifer Brown, who works with firms to create strategies on hiring and engaging gay employees, says companies need to be aware that policies on the books, while a start, don’t always ensure that people feel safe working on the factory floor.
Read MoreMann on the Street Interview with Jennifer Brown
August 10th, 2009
Workplace Consulting 2.0 by Jennifer Brown– excerpt, high-quality scan.
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Results Published: ERG Readiness Index
July 28th, 2010
Jennifer Brown Consulting, a diversity and leadership consulting firm, has developed a comprehensive study to help companies assess the readiness of their Employee Resource Groups to help drive business and impact bottom-line business goals. JBC invited companies to participate in this survey in order to create benchmark results and provide feedback to participating companies. We [...]
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