06/12/2017

What Hiring for Diversity Requires From Leaders

It's all about culture

ASAE Annual Meeting & Expo speaker chef Jeff Henderson has strong feelings on how to create diverse teams. To start with, diversity begins by understanding the culture in which the team exists.

Jeff Henderson is best known as a chef. But he’s also a student of workplace cultures, with a particular eye for how we handle building diverse teams—or avoid doing so.

Henderson, the Closing General Session speaker at the ASAE Annual Meeting & Expo in Toronto this August, recently spoke with me for an Associations Now feature on his remarkable rise from convicted drug dealer to successful gourmet chef and TV host. But the bulk of our conversation circled around how he learned to get ahead by understanding how workplace cultures operate, and what their blind spots are when it comes to hiring for diversity.

Please click here to read the complete article from Associations Now.