PREFACE
“$15,000 for a talk, huh?”
The corporate vice president I was speaking to nodded. “If that works for you.”
I studied his slightly pixelated face in the Zoom window and then spoke again. “You know, as much as I believe in the talks I give, there’s only so much I can do in sixty minutes . . . even if the audience for this conference is as big as you say.”
“Are you saying you’re not interested in the opportunity?”
“Not exactly—just that $15,000 of work gets you quite a bit if we put it toward other things. We could run a survey, for starters, and several interviews. We could analyze that data to get at least a basic sense of the state of DEI in your company and the things you and your leadership team could address to make progress. I can ...
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