Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Anthony Paradiso about how to build a strong culture rooted in diversity, equity and inclusion.

Paradiso is the vice president of HR support services for Industrial UI Services. He has led DEI efforts for the New Jersey chapter of Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and conducted trainings, workshops and lectures for employers. He says the three keys to a strong DEI culture are company policy, training and compliance. He says the common thread all three of them need to be successful is authenticity. 

“It couldn’t get more important than being authentic,” he says. “With the George Floyd incident, a lot of organizations were making statements on what they feel should have happened or should be happening, but then they never really followed through on those statements. So whatever you put in your handbook, enforce. Don’t put it in there just for words.”

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