What is your company doing to improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?
Photo illustration by Leanza Abucayan, CNN What is your company doing to improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion? President Biden’s Cabinet serves as a model for workplace diversity! Politics aside, let’s review President Biden’s cabinet picks: 50% of nominees for Cabinet-level positions are people of color including Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, the first female of Black […]
How Banks Can Benefit from Fintech Partnerships
In 2020, few people view paying a friend or family member $20 for last night’s dinner over Venmo as something extraordinary. Actions like these, by now, already seem like an ordinary function of daily life, like starting your car from the warmth of your house, or your phone reminding you when it’s time to wish […]
How To Mitigate Unconscious Bias In the Hiring Process
Topics centered around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) in the workplace have skyrocketed lately: and for good reason. Besides the nationwide, humanistic push towards more just and inclusive communities, institutions, and organizations, there are real, demonstrable business reasons for having a more diverse workforce and leadership team. For as much as an organization can tout […]
Diversity in 2020: The Importance of Retention
Earlier this year, we wrote about the real benefits organizations stand to gain if they strive to create a more diverse and inclusive work environment. In the months since we published that piece, nationwide focus on diversity and inclusion has increased exponentially. By now, any given organization’s D&I efforts have long moved past PR sleight […]
Finance and Accounting Functions in High Demand as Lending Volume Surges
Initially, the global pandemic dramatically disrupted virtually every existing industry worldwide. The banking and consumer lending marketplaces were no exceptions. Widespread layoffs, record unemployment spikes, and a highly uncertain future became the norm for consumers and small businesses. However, banks and other lending institutions became inundated with the demands of forbearance requests, PPP loans, and […]
How to Maintain Productivity and Engagement With a Remote Workforce
As we march our way through a period of prolonged social distancing, working remotely has become the new standard for many organizations. While we work in an age more suited to this type of disruption than any before, still leaders are faced with the challenge of maintaining productivity and engagement with teams working primarily from […]
Reviewing Leadership as Part of Your Strategic Plan
Everyone knows how crucial having the right senior leadership and management team is to an organization’s health, success, and future. Unfortunately, at many firms, executive leadership (CEO, BOD) fails to include a review of their senior leadership and management team (their single most important asset) annually as part of their strategic planning process. If you […]