Lots of organizations require their employees to participate in diversity, equity and inclusion training. But is it effective? 'Many antiracist frameworks approach the work of anti-racism from the top down,' Chloé Valdary says. 'And their workshops will perpetuate the notion that people based upon skin color should be put into boxes.' DEI training is now a $3.4 billion industry. But what's all that money actually buying? 'A lot of companies will ask, you know, ‘Who else have you worked with or what did you do with so-and-so?' And that to me, signals that it's not intrinsic, that it's kind of like this exercise in conformity,' diversity consultant Robert Livingston says.

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