SUMMARY Based on her many years of watching all types of individuals react to the issues surrounding diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, Jennifer Brown and her team developed the "Inclusive Leader Continuum," a four-stage non-linear journey (Unaware, Aware, Active, and Advocate) that codifies a set of easy-to-remember developmental stages. Like the first edition, the second edition describes each of the four stages in the continuum and shows how leaders can begin to

[Note: This post was updated March 2021 for freshness & clarity.] Diversity initiatives usually sound great on paper and on an organization’s website. However, upon closer inspection, it is easy to see that there often exists a huge gap between rhetoric and practice. Jayne and Dipboye (2004) stated that simply having a diverse workforce “does not . . . produce the positive outcomes that are often claimed” (pp. 411-412). Increasing diversity, in and of itself, will not improve