Women are more likely to be promoted to leadership roles when companies face crises. 

Over the past years, we have heard many pledges to support diverse communities and innovative initiatives, yet the reality often falls short of these commitments. How do personal motivations, our networks and echo chambers lead to a skewed distribution that leaves many diverse groups overlooked and needs unaddressed?

New Power Labs’ senior advisor, Garrick Ng, had a New Power Talk with Devika Shah from Environment Funders Canada. Devika noted, “Postal code is an indicator of quality of life.”

A paper published by Havard suggests that diversity or anti-bias training alone does not reduce bias, alter behaviour or change the workplace, despite being widely implemented.

What is currently blurry in your peripheral vision?

Social Capital Partners released the Billionaire Blindspot report, exposing Canada's significant wealth gap and urging policymakers to address inaccuracies in data collection to better understand and tackle wealth concentration.

Three steps leaders can take to adapt how we think about resilience, to account for biases and the resulting disparities.

We build trust by acknowledging our missteps.

In 2015, Canada was in the top ten of 95 countries in closing the gender parity gap. Yet, progress has stalled over the past decade — last year, Canada ranked 30th out of 146 countries.

My inspiration for Equity Shots originated from my daily reading of Seth Godin's blogs since 2015. See below for a recent one from Seth Godin that resonated.

What changed from 2020?

Hope is…

Diversity statements on job postings can be harmful to diverse candidates.

Many fear that revealing unflattering diversity metrics would undermine their reputation and credibility. Is this true?

Mark Cuban explains to Elon Musk the business case for equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Shifting power through scaling deep.

The first step to being a good person is letting go of being a good person. Instead, we should embrace being a good-ish person.

As we enter 2024, we want to share our three most-read Equity Shots from 2023.

The new year is a time of renewal and hope.

Understanding the barriers faced by necessity-entrepreneurs in the social finance ecosystem and the unique gaps they are addressing can help us level the playing field.