WHAT IF WE COULD GO BEYOND THE CONVERSATION ABOUT DIVERSITY AND TAKE REAL ACTION?

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Beyond Diversity is a Wall Street Journal Best Seller

In early 2021, more than two hundred widely respected experts gathered virtually for the world’s most ambitious conversation about diversity. Our aim was to do more than spotlight injustice. We challenged ourselves to imagine how to fix it. The dialogue brought together casting directors, bookstore owners, disabled leaders, healthcare professionals, students, VCs, standup comedians, chief diversity officers, pro gamers, archaeologists, government insiders, startup founders, and even a master puppeteer.

Now for the first time, these solutions are compiled into one groundbreaking volume organized into twelve powerful themes including: storytelling, technology, identity, retail, education and more. Each chapter paints a revealing picture of the world, how it is, how it could be and what needs to happen for us to get there. For newcomers to the topic of diversity, and DEI experts alike, this book offers a much-needed actionable blueprint for creating a more inclusive world for us all.

Meet the Authors

Jennifer Brown (she / her)

Jennifer Brown (she / her)

Founder, Jennifer Brown Consulting

Jennifer Brown and her team at Jennifer Brown Consulting are committed to building more inclusive and representative workplaces of belonging where everyone can thrive. She is a bestselling author and inspirational keynoter on leadership courage and change.
Rohit Bhargava (he / him)

Rohit Bhargava (he / him)

Founder, Non-Obvious Company

Rohit Bhargava is on a mission to inspire more non-obvious thinking in the world. He is the founder of the Non-Obvious Company, a popular keynote speaker, and the #1 WSJ bestselling author of seven books on marketing, trends, and the how to predict the future.

Meet the Contributors

Andrius Alvarez Backus

(he / him)

Writer/Graphic Designer, Jennifer Brown Consulting

Andrius Alvarez Backus is a content writer, research assistant, and graphic designer at Jennifer Brown Consulting. He is currently studying fine art at The Cooper Union in New York City.

Chhavi Arya

(she / her)

Co-founder, Ideapress Publishing & COO + Producer, Non-Obvious Company
Chhavi Arya is the co-founder of Ideapress Publishing and the producer of the Non-Obvious Beyond Diversity Summit. She spent 10 years teaching elementary school, pioneering diversity curriculum and programming that was used across Ontario, Canada.

Karen Dahms

(she / her)

Senior Research Director, Jennifer Brown Consulting
Karen Dahms is a writer, researcher, advocate and change agent for social justice and diversity, equity and inclusion. She is the Senior Research Director at Jennifer Brown Consulting.

Sandhya Jain-Patel

(she / her)

Co-Founder, SRC Partners
Sandy Jain-Patel and her team at Jennifer Brown Consulting are committed to building more inclusive and representative workplaces of belonging where everyone can thrive. She is a bestselling author and inspirational keynoter on leadership courage and change.

Chhavi Arya

(she / her)

Professor, Tennessee State University
Kaleena Sales is an author, illustrator, and graphic design educator at Tennessee State University, an HBCU in Nashville, TN. Her research focuses on minority culture and aesthetics.

Monka Samtani

(she / her)

Co-Founder, The Fem Word
Monika Samtani is the CEO of Ms. Media and co-founder of The Fem Word. As a media and entertainment professional, building a culture of authenticity is rooted in her work —producing, storytelling, publicity, coaching, and speaking.

Zharia Shinn

(she / her)

Professor, Tennessee State University
Sandy Jain-Patel and her team at Jennifer Brown Consulting are committed to building more inclusive and representative workplaces of belonging where everyone can thrive. She is a bestselling author and inspirational keynoter on leadership courage and change.

Today’s news and corporate boardrooms are filled with discussions about diversity as a concept, but it’s rare that anybody sits down and considers what that concept really means on a day to day basis. It isn’t something that can be summed up in whiteboard planning sessions or PowerPoint initiatives. To understand our changing world and its patchwork social landscape, you have to reach down into the stories, perspectives, and shared experiences of real people. Beyond Diversity did just that, and I’m so glad I picked it up and read through it! I felt genuinely informed and far more motivated to seek out diverse voices and ideas when I was done, and it wasn’t merely the temporary high one often gets from reading a motivational book. This compilation was real—it isn’t a collection of sugar coated platitudes, but rather a grouping of determined and passionate voices that actually add to the dialogue surrounding our ideas of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Emily Montague

So many of us look to Jennifer as our ‘go-to’ thought leader, and this book expands the conversation yet again! It reaches far beyond the theories and vague encouragements of so many other books on this topic, with real stories of everyday change makers, and tangible actions we can all take.

Dr. Sharon Melnick

Hermes Creative Award Platinum WInner

Print Book

National Indie Excellence Award

Multicultural

Foreword Indies Finalist

Multicultural

Axiom Gold Medal

Women / BIPOC

22 Books to Read (or Reread) in 2022

Inc Magazine

Next Gen Indies Award Winner

BIPOC

Wall Street Journal Best Seller