Joseph Santana
Joseph Santana is CEO of Joseph Santana LLC, which serves the diversity, inclusion and belonging community.
Articles By Joseph Santana
Searching for candidates can be like digging for buried treasure
To expand your leadership candidate pool, leverage employee networks to dig deeper into your workforce. Read More
Diamonds in the Rough
Employee resource groups: A valuable, overlooked leadership development gem waiting to be mined. Read More
How to Build a High-Performing, Diverse Super Team
No organization can afford to have teams where any member lacks the skills, commitment, or cognitive breadth of vision and perspective needed to be a super team. Read More
Your Best Practice Is Not My Best Practice
What may be considered a best practice to achieve one type of goal may not be the best practice for achieving other goals. Read More
Building ERGs for a World of Work Beyond Employment
These five questions can help employee network leaders align with the new world of work. Read More
Building and Monitoring Your ERG’s Strategic Compass
Don't just execute a plan. Make sure you revisit and reflect on every element throughout its execution. Read More
Tap Into the ERG Trove
Employee resource groups do more than connect employees. They also connect businesses with untapped markets, new services and key communities. Read More
ERGs Must Meet Employees’ Needs
Employee resource groups are voluntary activities for which people offer extra time and effort. It’s only right they should expect the company to focus on what they want. Read More
Push for Veterans: It’s Good for Everyone
Hiring veterans can bring all types of diversity to a company. Read More
How Can ERGs Drive Their Companies Toward Greater Inclusion?
One question I often hear from ERG leaders is, “What can we do to drive greater organizational inclusion?” Whenever I hear a broad question like this — whether from someone else or rolling around in my own head — it always reminds me of the conversat... Read More
ERG Leaders Add Value by Challenging Business Leaders
Over the year of writing this blog, I’ve focused on a number of ways that ERGs can drive value to their members as well as their companies. My suggestions have covered a broad number of topics and provided tips and ideas that are pretty easy to apply... Read More
Partnering ERGs With Supplier Diversity Drives Huge Business Value
Years ago, when companies started thinking about how their newly minted employee resource groups could add value to the organization beyond their role as home-and-hearth for the formerly underrepresented, supporting recruiting was the first thing tha... Read More
Pursue Effective Practices, Not Best Practices
Perform a Google search any time of the week on the words “best practices,” and you are likely to get north of 300 million hits. Ever since the adoption and propagation of this term by management consultants, it’s become one of the most popular buzzw... Read More
Presenting ERG Metrics Your Executives Will Believe
Whenever I attend gatherings of ERG leaders as either a speaker or panelist, I always wait for that one question that will, without fail, eventually surface: “What is the best way to show executives evidence of all the great value we are driving and ... Read More
ERGs Need to Benefit Employees, Not Just the Company
I recently received feedback on a panel session that I moderated. The panel was supposed to give examples of how employee resource groups (ERGs) benefited both the company and the members. Some participants pointed out, however, that the panel seemed... Read More
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