Somewhere during my ninety-year journey I developed a three-line, fifteen-word personal action mantra. It goes like this.
“Look unflinchingly at the past.
Apply it to the present.
Then pivot to the future.”
So when I think about diversity in 2025, I think about pivoting for renewal, not merely defending the diversity past or doubling-down on current diversity strategies. That’s why my current ADR column series is entitled Renewing Diversity. As circumstances of the past few years have made abundantly clear, the diversity movement is long overdue for renewal, lest it relegate itself into footnote status in the long course history.
Continue reading Renewing Diversity #4: Pivoting to the Future – by Carlos Cortés