Equilar has announced that The Leverage Network (TLN), a non-profit dedicated to promoting the advancement of Black executives in healthcare, has joined forces with the Equilar Diversity Network (EDN).
The partnership aims to make healthcare boards and C-suites more diverse. Currently Black representation on boards of leading US healthcare companies is just 9%, according to TLN research. Together they hope to improve that statistic.
Research has also shown a correlation between healthcare provider diversity and improving health equity; as well as health disparities in communities of colour. Diverse boards bring a greater awareness of racial inequities in access to quality care, better housing, transportation and nutrition. Those disparities have grown more acute and much more public as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The partnership with Equilar will amplify TLN’s mission to prepare its members and bring visibility to highly qualified minority board candidates in healthcare.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLACK EXECUTIVES
“I’m extremely excited about this partnership opportunity with Equilar. This relationship helps to table the old adage that Black excellence is hard to find,” said Antoinette Hardy-Waller, TLN’s Founder and CEO. “Our vision for The Leverage Network is to be the premier one-stop shop for Black senior-level talent in healthcare.”
TLN is helping to advance opportunities for Black executives in the C-suite and boardrooms at healthcare companies in the US through a series of professional development and readiness programmes.
DRIVING BOARDROOM DIVERSITY
“We look forward to partnering with The Leverage Network to amplify its efforts to drive boardroom diversity at today’s leading healthcare companies. There has never been a more critical time to take a hard look at diversity and inclusion efforts at all levels of the healthcare industry,” commented David Chun, Founder and CEO of Equilar. “We’re proud to provide our partners with an innovative platform to support a community of diverse board candidates where thousands of members from under-represented groups have already joined corporate boards across all industries.”
Launched in September 2016 to advance diverse representation in boardrooms across the globe, EDN now comprises more than 40 partner organisations representing nearly 170,000 diverse board candidates, supplementing nearly one million candidate profiles already in the Equilar BoardEdge database. EDN is a consortium of leading diversity-focused organisations consolidating robust registries of board-ready executives into one searchable database. Since the Network was founded, more than 2,000 members across EDN partner organisations have been appointed to corporate boards.
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