I am not afraid nor will I hold back on speaking out against the inequity that is so pervasive in many workplaces across our country. One only needs to point to the annual glass ceiling study by Catalyst, a premier research institute for women in the workplace, to easily deduce that today's workplace is not a level playing field. The study reveals that there is a huge gap in the percentage of women in the workplace, including the percentage of women who sit on corporate boards and in the c-suites of fortune 500 companies. This information raises an important question: Why do we still see this huge gap of inequity in 2010? One reason is our silence. This "silence" creates legitimacy for the inequity that we see today.

Each community must challenge workplace inequity. Each community must speak out aggressively on this topic. Each individual must be willing to lend his/her voice in order to form a CollectiveVoice™. A CollectiveVoice™ that will challenge the "Keepers of Inequity," those corporate leaders that perpetuate inequity in their work environment. It is essential that these leaders be called to task. As a country, we can no longer afford to be silent and allow this pervasiveness of workplace inequity to continue.  

Please join me as I boldly seek to speak the truth: to alter and redefine those provincial leaders that do not value difference and who seek to continue to exclude individuals based on group identity as opposed to their talents and/or abilities. I promise you that I will do all that I can to seek real change in workplaces across our country.