What does a ‘Living Wage’ really mean?
By Ben Crosby
A blanket term for a diverse population
The term ‘living wage’ is used by many organizations as a guidepost to ensure employees are able to stay...
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Care About Fairness? Stop Negotiating Salaries.
By Christina Greenber
Several states across the country recently adopted new salary transparency laws, mandating that hiring companies post the salary ranges for...
Why Everyone Wants to Work from Home – And What Your Organization Can Do About It
By Christina Greenberg
It’s no secret that employees who can work remotely are rejoicing in the fact they no longer have to sit through rush hour traffic, hold...
How Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Hearings Reinforced the Need for Racial Equity in the Workplace
No matter what side of the political spectrum you are on, this moment is historic. A Black woman sitting on the Supreme Court for the first time in 232 years is...
8 Must-Read Racial Equity Books for Leaders
By Kevin Bryant
At Edgility, when we look for executive leadership candidates, we look for leaders who can offer compassion and understanding and are equipped...
How to Write a Job Description That Promotes Equity
Many organizations defer to cutting and pasting job descriptions or rely on the Internet to provide them with templatized job description language. However,...
Is Your DEI Work Harming or Helping Your Organization?
Many organizations launch well-intentioned Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives—from book clubs to dedicated Slack channels.
And though everyone...
Salary Transparency: Is Your Organization Ready?
At the start of 2020, several organizations did an about-face regarding existing business practices. They were either forced or chose to reshape policies, whether...
How Edgility is Putting Its Values Into Action
When Allison Wyatt, cofounder of Edgility, was offered a scholarship to a private boarding school a lightbulb went off. Having grown up in an economically...
5 Common Leadership Search Mistakes
Nepotism, cronyism and favoritism are unfair, but extremely common practices that creep into leadership searches at organizations across the country. Often concealed as networking, they can lead to poor hiring decisions and work to accentuate and ingrain biases and inequities within an organization.