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“The initiative launched in 2001 when several organizations in the region were concerned that talent was leaving for places like Atlanta or Chicago. They sought to do more to keep minority professionals in town and rising into leadership positions.”
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“A new survey of global senior executives finds that a majority of companies have either one or no minorities in their executive ranks, despite the fact that more than half the companies have official “diversity in the workplace” policies.”
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“Last year, Marriott launched Sed de Saber, a program to help Spanish-speaking employees learn English. While 60 percent of Marriott’s workforce are minorities, 27 percent of its new managers hired in 2006 were minorities and 46 percent were women.”
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“He said managers have to realize that what feels good to them in a workplace may not feel good to someone from another culture. Those managers should work harder to relate better to those employees for the good of the company”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
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