The value of building diverse teams – William Adams

<div id="contentsContainer" class="style-scope qowt-page"> <div id="contents" class="style-scope qowt-page"> <p id="E299" class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0"><span id="E300" class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman">William is an award-winning Diversity & Inclusion innovator, an engineering trailblazer, and a philanthropist. He is also a busy husband and father of three children.</span></p> <p id="E301" class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0"><span id="E302" class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman">William was named the first Technical Advisor to the CTO at Microsoft after helping develop critical code for many of Microsoft’s core products.</span> <span id="E304" class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman">William is</span> <span id="E305" class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman">also</span> <span id="E306" class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman">the co-founder of the LEAP apprenticeship program, which was named Microsoft’s Diversity & Inclusion program of the year in 2020.</span></p> <p id="E307" class="x-scope qowt-word-para-0"><span id="E308" class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman">Early in William’s software engineering career, he was one of the first</span> <span id="E309" class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman">b</span><span id="E310" class= "qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman">lack entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.</span> <span id="E311" class= "qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman">He</span> <span id="E312" class= "qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman">is also the philanthropic founder of The EV3NT, which is a collaborative, community-based hackathon designed to use technology to address critical needs for people of color.</span></p> <p id="E313" class="x-scope qowt-word-para-1"><span id="E314" class="qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman">“</span><span id="E315" class= "qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman">Company leaders must understand the value in creating</span> <span id="E316" class= "qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman">a diverse team of people with different perspectives.</span><span id="E317" class= "qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman">” –</span> <span id="E318" class= "qowt-font2-TimesNewRoman">William Adams</span></p> <p id="E319" class="