Brody also made significant efforts to lead the DAC and the Corporate Strategy Council in defining and designing the diversity effort. Brody and her team made a great effort to education these key players on diversity; she provided qualitative data on benchmarking and best practices and she provided quantitative data on the issue within Best Foods.

Question 7: What else might Best Foods and/or Brody do to institutionalize the changes begun at the Forum and other aspects of the diversity initiative?

A lot of momentum was created at the Women's Global Leadership Forum and Brody needs to quickly capitalize on the information gathered at the event. She should recommend to Shoemate that he communicate, via a letter, to all salaried employees the importance of the event, highlights of the dialogue between the DAC and other senior executives, and...

She must be mindful not to eliminate any existing members but find a way to increase the size of the program so it may be more inclusive of women and international employees.
She may also want to hold future events outside of NY, having headquarters come to the employees rather than the employees coming to headquarters. This will acknowledge the value of the markets outside of the U.S. And provide opportunities to increase awareness of other cultures. It will also provide an opportunity for the senior management outside of the U.S. To meet the up and coming talent pool. This could be accompanied by temporary international assignments to broaden the participant's knowledge of the company.