Video: Judith Weisinger of Mills College Talks Diversity at Net Impact '14

"Given all of the corporate crises [we've seen] over the past several decades, it's important for businesses to step up and emphasize ethics and socially responsible leadership," Judith Weisinger, associate professor of business at Mills College, said at the 2014 Net Impact conference in Minneapolis last month.

"The demographics suggest that the nation is becoming increasingly multicultural, and the nexus between business and society is ever-increasingly important. Therefore, an emphasis on diversity is really imperative," she continued. "It's not really an option anymore."

As part of our Talking Diversity video series, Weisinger goes on to explain how diversity matters at the Mills College Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Management, where she teaches the new generation of business leaders, in this 90-second clip.

Judy Weisinger is Associate Professor of Business at the Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Management at Mills College in Oakland, California. Judith teaches in the areas of leadership & ethics, organizational behavior, and human resources management, and has taught management courses at the undergraduate, graduate and executive levels. She has also consulted to various organizations on topics such as team-building and diversity & inclusion. She conducts research on organizational diversity, with current interests in the role of social networks in the effective management of diversity & inclusion and has emergent interests in diversity and social capital in social enterprises.