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Will 2024 be the year when most of the leaders and companies will have to implement DEI if they want to have a healthy, promising and stable company culture? Especially when we know that organizations with above-average diversity are 2.4x more likely to outperform their peers financially?

Our host <\/a>Julian Griffin discusses the current state of DEI and what we can expect in upcoming months with three lovely & inspiring ladies in our new Future of Work panel: <\/a>Rhonda Moret, <\/a>Chikere Igbokwe and <\/a>Alexis Zahner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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