Better Humans, Better Performance: Driving Leadership, Teamwork, and Culture with Intentionality

CREATING DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION

We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.¹

—MAYA ANGELOU, “HUMAN FAMILY”

In 1978, Vusumzi Mcongo’s arms and legs were shackled by chains when he scuffled into a maximum security cell on Robben Island in South Africa. On the same day, Christo Brand started as a prison warden, or warder as South Africans call it. Christo was warned that the men he guarded, like Vusumzi, were no better than animals. For his part, Vusumzi kept his distance from all the warders on Robben Island since his job was to share information with prisoners from one section of the prison to another. If caught, the warders ...