“Moving Through the Wilderness: Recommitting to Equity After 10/7” is a collection of brief essays (see below) born out of Elevate: An Executive Leadership Equity Accelerator. Elevate launched in May 2023 and its first cohort consisted of eleven CEOs of…
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