I spent thirty years teaching it as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It cost me a career. It’s also what’s rebuilding it.

For nearly three decades, I had the privilege of standing at the center of one of the most important conversations in business — Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. That work gave me something I could not have learned anywhere else. It gave me a front-row seat to human behavior.

After more than 100,000 conversations, I realized something. I wasn’t just studying organizations. I was studying people. How our experiences shape our perspective. How our perspective shapes our decisions. And how our decisions shape the lives of the people around us — the impact none of us can take back.

The mission has never changed. The conversation has expanded.