Book Review: Beyond Diversity

Beyond Diversity: 12 Non-obvious Ways to Build a More Inclusive World, by Rohit Bhargava and Jennifer Brown (Ideapress Publishing, 268pp, $17.79, 2021)

Beyond Diversity is well-written and organized extremely well in 12 chapters, with each having an identical outline of information so you can easily compare the subjects. Basically it is a conference proceedings - the result of a day-long conversation among 200 people who are experts in the field of diversity, plus others who are just simply leaders in their fields of government, education, healthcare, etc.

The Purpose

The purpose of the conference and thus this book was to figure out where we are now, where we need to go and how to get there in the area of diversity in different areas of human life.

Compiling this proceedings and the previous conversation/convention/conference upon which it is based took an incredible amount of planning and organizing as well as summarizing, the job of reading it made easier through the use of headings, quotations, and boxed information.

And The Dozen Are. . . .

The 12 chapters encompass the following:
storytelling,
culture,
identity,
family,
retail,
education,
technology,
entrepreneurship,
leadership,
government,
workplace, and
future - all aspects of our lives that can be improved upon. The hardest part is deciding which chapter to read first!

However, . . . .

However, I felt the next steps are not obvious - I expected some future milestones and more specific goals.