Why diversity is upside down: Andrés Tapia at TEDxIndianapolis

Andrés Tapia explores ways we live in an Upside Down World. So much of what we know of how the world works has been flipped on its head. The US' position in geopolitics. The way healthcare will work in the US. How products get manufactured. How we consume entertainment. How we connect with one another. The best practices have become obsolete. But we're not sure what the new and next practices are. If all these and many more things are in the midst of questioning their basic presuppositions, then diversity should be no different. In what ways is diversity upside down? Tapia, Senior Partner at Korn/Ferry International's Diversity, Inclusion & Talent Optimization Practice, has been one of the leading voices in shaping a contemporary, next generation approach to diversity and inclusion. The approach is global, deeply integrated into talent systems, and focused on enabling marketplace success. He has over 25 years of experience as a C-suite management consultant, diversity executive, organizational development and training professional, and journalist. Throughout Europe, Asia, North America, and his native Latin America, Tapia has served clients in shaping their enterprise-wide diversity and inclusion business cases and strategies across industries -- including financial, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, government, not-for-profits, and education -- with dozens of Global 500 organizations such as John Deere, Marriott, United, Target, Cigna and Novartis as well as non-US multinationals in Brazil, South Korea, and India. Tapia, the author of a groundbreaking book, "The Inclusion Paradox: The Obama Era and the Transformation of Global Diversity," is a frequently sought after speaker on the topic of diversity and inclusion. He is the recipient of numerous leadership and diversity awards and has served on a number of boards, including currently serving on the editorial board of Diversity Executive Magazine, the corporate advisory board for the Bentley University Center for Women and Business, and Ravinia Festival.
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[@hartliscuzo]

I was not able to understand the point. His analogies were all over the place.

[@nixieNICLA]

Internal control culture is an interesting way of focusing on the issue of diversity inclusion..... what, why. where did that belief come from...?? I like this talk. It's excellent. We definitely need differences in this upside down world.....

[@stockbroker2000]

This speech is borrowing the word "inclusion" from Peruvian issues that is being used long ago now by policy makers and sociologist where 'diversity' is not working out in a country as such in Perú where a lot of diversity and segmentation exist both in race and culture but are not addressing the 'inclusion'. That situation is also analogically applicable to the US society where both diversity and inclusion do not really work along with one another. The melting pot now is a salad bowl.

[@HumanRaceOfYourKnees]

Could not agree more. Spot on!

[@oscarortiz8593]

brazil is not an economic power lmaooooo

[@dennisr.levesque2320]

You sure are screwed up. Don't you know that every time a new child is born, a little more diversity has been added to the world? Always has been, always will be. They are not robots of any "majority".

[@gttaco35]

I am embarrassed that I have to watch this