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With the advice and support of the Diversity Advisory Group, the new Diversity Initiatives team will promote business and graduate management education to broader audiences around the world. Diversity Initiatives will continue to leverage relationships with organizations and schools. Specialized tools and services, including enhanced professional learning programs, diversity data and research reports, and networking opportunities will be available to business schools and school professionals with a diversity role.
The new diversity strategy was developed in close consultation with the GMAC Diversity Advisory Group (see page 3), appointed last fall.
“Through our new Diversity Initiatives, we are allocating resources to strengthen and reinforce our commitment to diversity,” says Nicole Chestang, the chief client officer at GMAC. “We will continue our ongoing collaboration with strategic partners who have been part of the Diversity Pipeline Alliance. Utilizing programs, research, and other strategies, we plan to build on existing success and find new ways to bring even more highly qualified diverse students into the graduate management education pipeline.”
Underscoring its expanded commitment, GMAC has appointed a full-time director of Diversity Initiatives to focus on diversity issues in support of GMAC client schools and the industry as a whole. Camille Leverett, a member of the GMAC staff with extensive experience as a client services specialist, will lead the Council’s new diversity efforts.
Leverett is already hard at work on the new Diversity Initiatives. “Thanks to input from our Diversity Advisory Group, we’re beginning to develop strategies for delivering new services and tools to support schools active in diversity recruitment and retention,” she says. “This is not about the individual efforts of GMAC but a collaborative effort of graduate management education professionals and organizations working together with GMAC to increase diversity.”
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