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The home management platform hired a leader to develop new DEI strategies. The last 18 months of diversity seed planting are yielding rich rewards, with lessons for all businesses.
By: Sheryl Nance-Nash, Contributor
Three tips for creating an effective diversity strategy:
- Use data to shape your diversity strategy and to craft your DEI to-do list.
- Look at DEI holistically across the company and think beyond employees to the customers you serve.
- Regularly check the pulse of employees and customers to gauge the efficacy of DEI programs and messaging.
Tech company Thumbtack runs a home management platform that unites homeowners with professionals to fix, maintain, and improve their homes.
In October of 2020, Thumbtack hired its first global head of diversity, equity and inclusion, Dionna Smith. She’s leading the company’s quest for DEI with employees, customers, products, processes, and the community.
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