Good morning! Victoria’s Secret swaps out DEI language, The Economist releases their Glass Ceiling Index, and Fortune’s Nina Ajemian dives into a new book identifying the most critical moment for women at work.
– When the career ladder breaks. In Trump-era America, companies are eliminating their diversity and inclusion functions left and right, and chief diversity officers are eager to find new ways to package their skills. Three who make a case for the insight these executives can bring to an organization, no matter their title, are McKinsey’s Lareina Yee, Kweilin Ellingrud, and Maria del Mar Martinez, all of whom at one point held the title of chief diversity and inclusion officer at the consulting firm. Together, the senior partners are coauthors of a new book, The Broken Rung, which publishes March 11.
The three know well how difficult it can be to change organizations. So they decided to instead share their insights on an individual level. “Instead of writing a book about how companies can change, let’s write a book about everything we would have wanted to know as we were working our way through,” Yee says.
