Time for more Diversity Leadership in the Boardroom

Both U.S. and Canada need to look at initiating more diversity leadership in the boardroom. This way of thinking comes about even more strongly after the inauguration of the 44th president of the U.S., given that he is an African American who calls for diversity and inclusion. However, as Beverly Behan reports in Businessweek, Boards of Fortune 100 in the U.S. have gone unchanged for the past four years and it is time for diversity in the boardroom.

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In the case of Canada, Jay Rosenzweig speaks about the "Obama effect trickles into the Boardroom." The absence of diversity in the boardroom stands the same in Canada through the Rosenzweig Report on Women at the Top Levels of Corporate Canada. Rosenzweig makes a further claim that President Barack Obama will have an effect on the appearance of board members in both U.S. and Canada, and we are to expect to see more women and visible minorities in the boardroom and corner offices than what we see today.

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Issues on diversity have been calling for equity and equality for a long time now through change and what is right. Like Behan and Rosenzweig, I do hope that we get that change, not only in the boardroom but every place and space necessary for the realization of diversity, equity and equality for all.

Dr. Marilyn J