The Institute of Directors' senior diversity adviser, Lisa Buckingham, added that diversity does not end with gender.
Appoint senior diversity champions to get involved in activities such as attending gay pride, taking part in network groups and entering diversity awards.
It recruits at historically black colleges, finances scholarships for minority students and has donated about $15 million in cash and software to the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, said Claudette Whiting, the company's senior diversity director.
Senior diversity leaders and their staffs are shuffled off to conferences and working groups where they mostly talk to themselves, and ultimately receive kind smiles from the Pentagon establishment when they bring their reforms back for action.
In the study of training, standards, accountability of senior officers, diversity and morale, the committee said national standards needed to be devised by the College of Policing.
In December 1996, the National Restaurant Association's Educational Foundation purchased 150 videos from the group Flik International, a contract foodservice management company that produced a staff training video series on foodservice sanitation for senior citizens, diversity, and sexual harassment, among other topics.
Sue Williams, ACE's senior officer for diversity, commented: "Push Me has captured the diversity, depth and delights of the artists and in doing so has expanded our understanding of the work, changing how we perceive and experience it".
Ahmed welcomes the academy's development programme, but believes that the academy and NHS leaders also have a duty to protect the exiting handful of senior equality and diversity leads from disappearing from the NHS.
Lorna Fox O'Mahoney, executive dean of humanities and senior team LGBT diversity champion at the University of Essex, one of Stonewall's top six, says her university has put a concerted effort into improving its support for LGBT staff and students over the past five years.
"These reports help us look over time at changes in countries and show us where the gaps are and where to look to improve business practices," Laura Liswood, secretary general of the Council of Women World Leaders and a senior adviser on diversity at Goldman Sachs, said in an interview.
It can be very emotional when you are looking after a loved one and you can see that they are in a declining state of health," says Angela Gardner, a senior manager of diversity and inclusion at KPMG, the professional services company.
