Has the inequality exposed by the pandemic and racial reckoning impacted your organization? Are you focused on making your company more diverse, equitable, and inclusive? Are you committed to making real, long-term change that adds value but don’t know where to start? This book is for you.

In Hard Reset: Framing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as the New Normal, inclusion expert and business anthropologist Dr. Marlo Rencher and two-time Fortune 500 Chief Diversity Officer Marlin Williams leverage 50 years of professional experience to guide you as you build equity and inclusion into your day-to-day operations.

Through case studies, examples, and real talk, Marlin and Marlo show the way for emerging and experienced diversity, equity, and inclusion advocates and allies. In this book you’ll discover:

• How to make long-term change that provides financial and strategic value for your organization
• How to accurately assess organizational friction points that make equity and inclusion more difficult
• How to use data to drive diversity, equity, and inclusion
• How to reinvent Employee Resource Groups
• How to do your work and protect your peace

Hard Reset is one part unfiltered conversation and two parts practical guide. It is for the disruptors and the changemakers—those who are ready to create a better, more inclusive, and sustainable world.