Ashley speaks with Leah Rozin from the NACD research team about oversight of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, and why investors—institutional, retail, or activist—care. Rozin discusses how this year’s events affected the focus on the “E” and the “S.”

Esther Aguilera from the Latino Corporate Directors Association discusses findings from an analysis of Latina representation in boardrooms. She also shares her thoughts on California’s legislation mandating certain boards add members of historically underrepresented groups.

We’re taking a break this week to participate in the virtual NACD Summit. We’ll be back with another episode of Future Fluency on October 22nd.

In this new episode, Eric Lopez from the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility describes the markers for what it looks like for organizations to be “good” for Hispanic stakeholders—especially employees.

In this episode, Nate Wong, Managing Director of the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University, discusses the importance of collaborative public-and-private-sector innovation and the “we-centered” approach to addressing inequity.

In this episode, Kian Bakhtiari, founder of London-based marketing firm The People, shares consumer trends emerging from social upheaval and the global pandemic.

Two demographers offer an overview of paid parental leave in the US and how the leave-taking policies impact both men and women the workforce.

Ashley speaks with Dr. Jennifer Glass, a demographer and sociologist, to learn how the rapid changes of the last few months have impacted workers, their families, and their participation in the economy.

Shai Akabas, director of economic policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, offers a glimpse of our US economy, including our unemployment outlook. He also reveals how the state of the US economy affects US households and what policies come into play as the government looks to provide relief.

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Stephanie J. Creary, an identity and diversity scholar and field researcher at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She discusses helpful practices to nurture belonging, inclusion, and identity.