Rosa Nunez: It's Never Too Late To Do The Right Thing

<p>Action now is better than never. This is especially true in the DEI space.</p><p>When it comes to DEI, we can start driving change with more education, access to opportunities, and the creation of systematic changes. But all of this starts with a step in the right direction.</p><p>Rosa Nunez believes that it's never too late to do the right thing.</p><p>Rosa is Foley Hoag's Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. She is responsible for developing, implementing, leading and championing proactive diversity and inclusion initiatives and programs, in alignment with Foley Hoag's overall strategic plans. Rosa is also co-chair the firm’s Diversity Committee.</p><p>Rosa's initiatives are centered around recruitment, learning and development, engagement, retention and external positioning.</p><p>Rosa has over 15 years of experience specializing in workplace diversity and inclusion, employee engagement, workplace culture and community outreach programs. Most recently, she worked at BCW Global - Burson Cohn & Wolfe in New York as the SVP, Senior Director, North America - Diversity & Belonging. In that capacity, she was responsible for creating and implementing a comprehensive U.S. inclusion, diversity, equity and belonging strategy to identify talent and help them flourish at BCW. Before that, Rosa was the U.S. Head of Diversity & Inclusion at Omnicom Media Group and started her career as a member of the Global Diversity & Inclusion Team at information technology firm Accenture.</p><p>In this episode, Rosa shares her knowledge for creating DEI change.</p><p>Listen to this episode and learn about:</p><ul><li>Rosa giving credit and thanks to the people that helped and hurt her (4:27)</li><li>What's most needed in the Latin community for DEI (10:39)</li><li>Creating educational opportunities for an archaic industry (14:21)</li><li>The top 3 things to implement when paving a new path (17:41)</li><li>Experiences that can bridge the gaps between different communities (24:48)</li><li>Why we are not connecting with people who