The strong business case for pursuing DEI—and now B
It’s worth it to push back against any pushback so you can fully embrace (and reap the benefits of) diversity in your membership and staff.
Many people in the credit union movement like to talk with pride about how today’s credit unions were founded on the principle of serving people “of modest means” who might not have been able to get financial services elsewhere. Many would say that credit unions are all about financial inclusion and the diversity of membership and staff that supports it.
Yet today there are reports of pushback in the credit union world against making changes to traditional practices to transform credit unions into good servants and employers of people from growing demographic and traditionally marginalized groups—against what has most recently been called diversity, equity and inclusion.
This pushback is happening even as data shows that businesses in general and credit unions in particular reap business benefits from being more inclusive.
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