Inclusive Workplace Quotes

In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.

I focus a fair amount of my time on ensuring that we have a good funnel of females coming into the company and then that we're retaining that as well and making sure that we have comfortable environments for them to be successful in.

I was introduced to 7 Charming Sisters at an Emmy Award Show event. When they approached me to become a brand ambassador, I was over the moon about working with the brand. What impressed me even more as a disability advocate is the fact that the company is dedicated to employing people with disabilities.

Indicate which principles you support regarding affirmative action and discrimination. 1. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs. 2. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the public sector. 3. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the private sector.

Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.

The [Wal-Mart] corporate culture lagged way behind many other American corporations in terms of making progress on women's issues, and that had a lot to do with being based in northwest Arkansas.

Ever so subtly, without even alluding to the last obstacles preserved by earlier opinions that we now push out of our path, we effectively replace the goal of a discrimination-free society with the quite imcompatible goal of proportionate representation by race and by sex in the workplace.

The world is diverse, and having a professional team that mirrors the world is going to be more helpful for us.

It took a woman to actually do something about the lack of women in creative departments.

For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let’s roll out the welcome mat.

A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.

I think there are many things that we can do today to make it a better work environment that is more supportive and encouraging of diversity.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

The reason why access to facilities - and access to public spaces - is so important is because it's much more difficult to go to work, to go to school, to participate in the public marketplace if you can't access bathrooms that make sense for you, that match who you are.

With the right support and reasonable adjustments, autistic people make wonderful employees.

When we launched If WeRanTheWorld, I said to my team, I want us to innovate in every aspect of how we design and operate this as a business venture, as much as the web platform itself - because I want us to design our own startup around the working lives that we would all like to live. Women and men alike.

The strength of your company is how wide a variety of people can be successful in it.

When I became a lawyer, no one asked me if I had spent some time in special ed. All they wanted was a good lawyer.

CEOs need to say, 'We're going to make sure this is a great environment for all types of people.' I was a beneficiary of that. I got support from the leaders of Google - all men.

The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do.

Working with a female director has great perks.

Endless data show that diverse teams make better decisions. We are building products that people with very diverse backgrounds use, and I think we all want our company makeup to reflect the makeup of the people who use our products. That's not true of any industry really, and we have a long way to go.

While there is still certainly much more work that needs to be done, Lyft actually believes in increasing diversity and inclusion within their workforce, and also, they believe in being a strong supporter of that in the community.

I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.

I hate diversity workshops. “Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.