Breaking Barriers, Building a Hire Ground – Episode 93: The Future of Supplier Diversity

“If we’re going to make a difference in this for a lot of different people, we have to think differently than the way we were doing it.” – Adam Moore

Supplier diversity has made leaps in recent years, making us wonder what it will look like in the future. To improve supplier diversity for future generations, we must ask ourselves what we should improve today. What are the questions we need to ask? What changes should we be making? How do we prepare our organizations for a more diverse world?

In this episode, we describe what we think will happen to supplier diversity in the future and what we hope will happen. We share why supplier diversity won’t make much of a headline in the future. We discuss the slower momentum after the George Floyd protests. We also explain the problems we should look into today, especially regarding databases and existing programs within our organizations.

Topics discussed in this episode of Breaking Barriers, Building Hire Ground:

• The future of supplier diversity
• Comparing supplier diversity programs from 10 years ago to today
• How supplier diversity will fare in the middle of a bear market
• The lack of outreach in this space
• Databases and what needs to change moving forward
• Why we have lost momentum since the George Floyd protests
• The places we must demand change
• The internal changes we must address in our organizations
• Why supplier diversity will also focus on local businesses
• Encouraging the youth to think about supplier diversity

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