The Anti-Racist Organization

1Entering the Global Race for Racial Equality

The company was not as far ahead as we should have been.

I wasn't as far ahead as I should be.

I felt exposed as a leader, and as an organization because we didn't have our shit together, and the issues of systemic racism affect our colleagues. Therefore it affected me. And I felt it should affect us all.

Client, 2020

Can you remember a time in your career where you thought there would be so many conversations happening about race? And did you ever, for a second, foresee that you would have to spearhead some of these conversations and lead those actions?

Times have truly changed, yet not everyone has bought into the evolved expectation of what it takes to be a responsible and sustainable company.

When the murder of George Floyd occurred, the resulting global protests were on a scale we'd never seen before. George Floyd wasn't the first and we have a way to go before we can confidently say he is the last, but in that moment of time, everything in society changed, and organizations were not exempt.

What are we doing to address this? Are we doing enough? I don't even know where to begin with this.

Chief Executive Officer, 2020

‘Stakeholder capitalism' has increasingly become a common way to describe the expectation that companies provide long‐term value creation. Going beyond a binary focus on shareholder returns, it's now encompassing customers, suppliers, colleagues, investors, communities and others who have a stake in the business, ...