Managing Diversity in Distributed Teams

Diversity in the workplace has been hyped up a lot in the last few years. Various studies have shown that diverse teams and companies, ethnically and cognitively, outperform those that aren’t. For example, a Boston Consulting Group study found that companies with more diverse management teams have 19% higher revenues due to innovation. From such statistics we can see the importance of diversity in organizations and so, Tala Odeh, our host, was joined by Dr. Vinika Rao and Marilyn Zakhour, CEO & Founder of Cosmic Centaurs to discuss ways to manage diversity, compassion and leadership.About our guestDr. Vinika Rao is the Executive Director of the INSEAD Gender Initiative & Emerging Markets Institute and Director of the Hoffman Global Institute for Business & Society, Asia. Prior to INSEAD, she was an Associate Professor of Strategy at the S.P. Jain Centre of Management, Singapore. Her research interests are gender diversity in corporate leadership, male allyship, and multigenerational influences in the workplace, and is a frequent speaker on related topics and published/quoted in leading business publications.