Addressing Disconnects Between CSR, Ethics, DEI, and Govt Affairs

Cecily Joseph, Board Director of MercyCorps

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On January 13, 2022, we spoke with Cecily Joseph, board director of MercyCorps and former Chief Diversity Officer at Symantec to explore “Addressing Structural Inequity: The Need for Policy Thought Leadership at the Board Level.”

As companies take the challenges of systemic inequity more seriously, Boards and managers are working to improve how they engage talent, build cultures of respect, and integrate equity into their value chains with customers, suppliers and communities. Yet systemic barriers, such as wealth and education gaps, are affected by historical and current policy positions – which few leaders have yet integrated into their strategies.

In this module, we explore:

• What are the challenges of getting alignment between Government Affairs, CSR, DEI, and Ethics and Compliance or other functions?
• Is there anything wrong with competing priorities?

The Corporate Political Responsibility Taskforce (CPRT)’s Expert Dialogues are in-depth, recorded conversations with academic experts, stakeholder advocates and business practitioners to provide our members and other CPR champions with the expertise and context they need to develop principled, proactive CPR strategies. We invite those interested in a constructive, non-partisan, principles-based discussion.

The full transcript for this module is available here. 

KEYWORDS: #CorporatePoliticalResponsibility #ESG #CivicEngagement #SystemicRisk #CPR_Trends #Injustice #Inequality