Diversity at WORK: The Business Case for Equity

Diversity at Work: The Business Case for Equity explains why you should strive for a more diverse and equitable workforce: not because you have to comply with legislation and not to feel warm and fuzzy inside, but because it makes good business sense.

Diversity at Work: The Business Case for Equity is a hands-on, practical guide to the why and how-to of striving for diversity and equity in the workplace:

• Creating a fair employment system for all employees
• Accommodating and valuing difference
• Hiring and retaining the best-qualified person for the job
• Basing all recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions entirely on merit and equal opportunity
• Overcoming backlash associated with controversial affirmative action and employment equity legislation
• Successfully implementing a sound and effective diversity strategy in your organization
• Achieving improved bottom-line results

Trevor Wilson is Canada's leading consultant specializing in diversity management and employment equity. He is the President of TWI INc. His firm's clients include some of North America's largest and most progressive employers, including: IBM, Nortel, Ernst and Young, SHL/MCI Systemhouse and Bell Canada. Wison also won a world-wide search to work on a major diversity educational project for one of South Africa's largest employers, South African Brewery (SAB). Before founding TWI Inc. in 1996, Trevor Wilson was the President of Omnibus Consulting. Trevor has held several posts in the Ontario government, advising on issues of multiculturalism, race relations and human rights. He has been active in community affairs, serving on the City of Toronto Mayor's Committee on Race Relations, as Vice-President of Government Affairs for the African-Canadian Entrepreneurs, as well as the board of directors for the United Way of Greater Toronto. Trevor has been profiled often by the media, including the Financial Post Magazine, Venture, the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail.

Mary Ann Sayers, former Organizational Development Manager for Coca-Cola Beverages Ltd., has over seventeen years of marketing, advertising, and communications experience. Her clients have included such major corporations as Coca-Cola Beverages Ltd., Manulife Insurance, Mary Kay Cosmetics, and Vickers & Benson Advertising. She has a degree in Journalism and a background in Human Resource Management.