To build and sustain a successful DEI programme, you must constantly balance scale and impact. It can be easy from a corporate perspective – especially in tech – to prioritise scale and privatise your recipe for success. But what works for products, doesn’t always work for people. Scale can quickly cannibalise impact. And competition unnecessarily slows progress.
What does it take to ensure diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is embedded into the organisation instead of being a checkbox exercise? Here’s what leaders from the tech industry believe is needed to do so.
Demetris Cheatham, senior director for Global D&I Strategy at GitHub

