March 2022
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 41m
English
The murder of George Floyd hit too close to home for Leslie Stretch, the CEO of Medallia. He is a white man from Scotland married to a wife of Nigerian descent—and as with Lisa Wardell, then at Adtalem, the news made him think of his own children. He’s had to talk with his kids about what to do if the police ever stop them. And in June 2020, as he watched the news about Black Lives Matter demonstrations all around the country, he realized that as the head of a $6 billion technology company, he was in a position to make his company more of a model for society, tackling systemic racism in America by ensuring that the representation of Black and brown professionals in his company was more reflective of society ...