3 | RACIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY RACIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY | 4 FROM DIVERSITY COMMITTEE CHAIR ADÉ HEYLIGER Last year, we published our first ever Racial Justice and Equity report, which detailed Weil’s response to the Summer 2020 racial reckoning. Two years later, we are proud to say that we have sustained our momentum for change; indeed, we have expanded and deepened our efforts. This year we are advancing our diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals through a new Diversity Committee initiative called Diversity in the Day to Day. Hearing from our BIPOC talent, in particular, we know that equity and inclusion are realized through daily mentoring, feedback and opportunities. We are embedding DEI into the fabric of the Firm by focusing on the exercise of inclusive habits in the day-to-day experience of our teams. We invite you to join us in making inclusion an everyday habit for everyone in the Firm and beyond. Research tells us that adopting small, consistent habits is the key to achieving goals like greater equity and inclusion. Below are some easy ways to make inclusion a daily habit: Invest intentionally in the day-to-day experience of the people on your teams by paying attention to who is invited to formal and informal meetings to ensure diverse members are included. Cultivate conscious connections through purposeful mentoring and relationship building, such as encouraging your colleagues to attend DEI programs and following up with discussions on key takeaways Maximize your rate of return via “one time” actions that pay off over time and finding ways to incorporate those actions into your daily work, such as scheduling recurring reminders to check in with diverse mentees and members of your team. RACIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY A YEAR OF COMMITMENT AND ACTION MAY 25, 2021
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