​In the days following the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, Erin Mitchell Richeson knew a generic employee memo would be an inadequate response. “We didn’t want just corporate speak,” says Richeson, vice president of global diversity and inclusion for

Kimberly-Clark, a global paper products company based in Irving, Texas.Richeson and her team concluded that the long-held assumption that conversations about race and social justice don’t belong