Building a strategy around long-term change on DE&I

The diversity, equity and inclusion movement has a conundrum. Stakeholders, both on the inside and the outside of organizations, want to see immediate, tangible change. But experts warn that the work of undoing systemic racism is an arduous, long-term, proposition.

Meaningful change won’t happen overnight—but organizations have to start showing progress.

That’s why some DE&I experts are trying to reframe the conversation around improving racial equity in the workplace as a journey or “continuum.” The latter is the word used by Mike Burns, one half of the sibling duo behind Burns Brothers agency, a culture-driven integrated diversity agency based in New York that offers 360-degree solutions for client and stakeholder needs in this new and diverse environment.