An Inside Look At The Challenges Of Managing One Of The Most Diverse Organisations In The World [Interview with Michael Collins]

Michael Collins is the Head of Diversity & Inclusion for New York City Transit

Find out about his unique and powerful insights that are of incredible value to all of us.

Here are some key messages from this episode:

• The reason New York City Transit is a unique organisation
• The elegant rule Michael introduced to promote inclusion with employee resource groups
• Affirmative Action: What it looks like in practice and much much more

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Here are some key takeaways from this episode:

If you’re leading people, you’re leading Diversity

“If you’re managing people. If you’re leading people then you need to understand that you are leading diversity already. You’re either doing a good job or you’re not. But you are. You’re doing it”

Employee resource groups can directly influence the bottom line

“I’ve seen for example, the people with disabilities employee resource group give the organisation information that only that group could have given it”

Affirmative Action in practice

“We’re going to look at what the census says is available in the marketplace to do these jobs, for example if it’s 30% women that are available to do this job and you have less than that in your organisation, then you should be taking affirmative action to get to that”

Here are some resources so you can go deeper: 

Michael Collins Linkedin

New York City Transit

American Express

CUNY

American Airlines

Check out these related episodes of the show.

The 3 Reasons Why Women’s Employee Resource Groups Are So Effective for Inclusion

A Reason Why Leaders Get So Frustrated About Diversity Hiring That Doesn’t Get Discussed

Whenever you’re ready, there are a few ways I can support your Inclusion Journey: