Video: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors Talks Diversity at Net Impact '14

"... Where creativity and innovation really happens is by bringing together different people, different backgrounds and different approaches on how they think to come up with great ideas," Jose Corona, CEO Inner-City Advisors, said at the 2014 Net Impact Conference.

Based in Oakland, California, Corona's organization serves inner-city communities throughout the Bay Area. By and large, these are very diverse communities as far as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, language and background, he said. But local companies have been "called out," as he put it, for lack of diversity -- particularly in Silicon Valley.

As part of our Talking Diversity video series, Corona goes on to describe why diversity matters to Inner City Advisors, as well as why it should matter for the greater Bay Area, in this two-minute clip.

Raised by a family of farming entrepreneurs in Watsonville, California, Jose Corona understands by way of practical experience how growing businesses have the power to transform communities. He has built a reputation as a leader with strong, innovative management and as a convener of public, private, and community leaders working toward fundamentally changing the way communities and all its residents benefit from economic development efforts. Corona led Inner City Advisor’s (ICA) launch of Fund Good Jobs, an investment fund focused on using capital to catalyze job creation, and its Talent Management Initiative, an innovative approach that is transforming the workforce development sector by influencing entrepreneurs to be strategic human capital leaders and managers to support the hiring, promoting, and transitioning of people.

Image courtesy of Inner City Ventures