December 2021
Beginner to intermediate
240 pages
5h 47m
English
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About the Author
JASON R. THOMPSON
Jason R. Thompson is a thought leader in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, having spent the past twenty-five years building DE&I programs in sports, health care, technology, and education. Jason is currently the vice president for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) at Western Governors University (WGU), one of the largest fully accredited online universities in the United States with over 121,000 students. Jason is also the co-founder and senior advisor to CAPE Inclusion, an innovative Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion platform to collect, analyze, plan, and execute your diversity goals.
Thompson is regularly sought out for advice and leadership on how to create, grow, measure, and sustain a DE&I program by DE&I officers across the corporate and nonprofit sectors struggling to have their DE&I efforts impact their organization. Thompson developed the initial diversity and inclusion program for the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and created the DE&I Scorecards to measure diversity within the US Olympic and Paralympic movement. As a result of this path-breaking innovation, the USOC became the first large sports organization in the United States to release their diversity data.
The diversity and inclusion programs Jason developed have won numerous awards at the local and international level. Most recently the DE&I Scorecard developed by Jason received the top honor in the 2016 International Innovations in Diversity Awards program ...
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