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Aids local businesses in embracing change
Organizations and communities must seek to globalize and diversify. Fostering diversity and inclusion is essential to prosperity, as it breeds innovation and empowers creativity. In fact, according to a 2011 "Forbes" study, 85 percent of participants agreed or strongly agreed that diversity is crucial to fostering innovation in the workplace.
Diverse cities, like Lansing, often have a deep appreciation for the arts to foster creativity, faith communities, multicultural events that celebrate our differences and renowned colleges and universities that attract the best and brightest minds.
The business environment and community needs to be diverse, too, in order to thrive. To encourage diversity in the business world, the Lansing Economic Area Partnership (LEAP) launched the Diversity Lansing initiative to increase conversations about how diversity helps our region be a place where people can thrive, succeed, prosper and explore, and I sit on the advisory committee as a senior advisory committee member.
According to LEAP, Diversity Lansing's mission...