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Lenna Turner - DEI: A Personal Perspective Through a Retrospective Lens


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Summary:

Lenna Turner is the Director of DEI and a consultant at Salary.com’s CompData Consulting Practice. Lenna’s current role focuses on client engagements involving compensation studies for base and total compensation, pay equity, and building DEI thought leadership and knowledge offerings for clients via white papers, surveys, roundtables, and panel discussions. She has been with Salary.com since 2019 and has 20 years of compensation management, consulting, and HR experience across various industries and companies. 

In this episode, Lenna shares a personal perspective on her personal journey with DEI in  the workplace. 


Chapters:

[0:00 - 6:13] Introduction

  • Welcome, Lenna!
  • Today’s Topic: Lenna’s personal perspective on how DEI can impact employee success
  • [6:14 - 15:25] When did you becoming interested in DEI, and what led you to your current role?

    • How Lenna’s early career didn’t match her expectations
    • Why celebrating the differences is more important that reporting the numbers
    • [15:26 - 27:24] How can DEI strategy (or a lack thereof) impact an employee’s career development?

      • Assessing both attraction and recruitment
      • Why being intentional about DEI is key to making a real difference in organizations
      • [27:25 - 34:33] What are some examples of actions that impact common DEI issues?

        • Why leadership needs to be wholly on board with DEI efforts
        • Celebrate existing diversity
        • [34:34 - 36:16] Final Thoughts & Closing

          • Intentionality is key
          • Thanks for listening!

          • Quotes:

            “I’ve seen in my career a lot of really great people from marginalized communities, people of color, get recruited into the workplace. And then they get there, there’s no real plan to move them through the organization.”

            “You have to be intentional. First of all, you have to be intentional to have a strategy and be intentional about building goals that help you meet that strategy.”

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