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We need leaders who boldly champion inclusion | June Sarpong

TED Business

CHAPTER

The Importance of Diversity in the Workplace

In 2015, Variety magazine wrote a scathing article about the least diverse networks in America. Out of 168 episodes that had aired on FX and FX between 2014 and 2015, 88% were directed by white men. John Landgraf pledged to diverse creatives that he was going to act. Within a year, Landgraf had turned FX from being the least diverse network in America to one of the most. And they had also managed to increase their diverse directing pool to just over half. Or because Landgraf stopped following the crowd and instead decided to disrupt in an inclusive way. I would call that rock star behaviour, just saying.

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