150 Corporate Executives, Including Visa CEO Al Kelly, Jr., Have Committed to Fostering Diversity and Inclusion
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150 Executives Commit to Fostering Diversity and Inclusion
Originally published on The New York Times
By: Elizabeth Olsen
Tim Ryan had been the United States chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers for about a week last year when five police officers in Dallas were killed by a sniper during a protest over police shootings of African-Americans in Minnesota and Louisiana.
A company email to reassure the accounting firm’s employees drew a response that stayed with Mr. Ryan.
“The sender wrote that when he came to work, the silence about what happened was deafening,” Mr. Ryan recalled in an interview. “I knew this was something that hit on our leadership.
