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Industry: Publishing
Company Size: 6,500 employees
Multinational publishing company Wiley set out to push back on its historically non-diverse industry reputation. For Wiley, the opportunity to transform to a more inclusive workforce was big.
Recognizing their role in an industry predominantly white, male and traditionally focused on where a potential employee went to college, they asked themselves: How might we diversify publishing?
Wiley partnered with Mathison to go all in towards a more inclusive approach — starting with how they read and write.
The team kicked off with the Equity Index (formally Equal Hiring Index®) to gain a comprehensive assessment of their gaps in diversity and inclusion and to understand where and how to take action. Today the company has three pilot teams incorporating Mathion’s DEI education and using the Diversity Sidekick for anonymized sourcing and inclusive language.
The goal for Natalia and her team is to beat bias across all of hiring, using Mathison’s technology to build an inclusive process to inform how they find, screen, interview, and hire candidates. As a quarterly measure, Pedroza uses the Equity Index to gauge where they’ve been and where they need to keep pushing. Wiley’s vision is company-wide adoption of Mathison.
“It’s about changing behaviors within the workforce,” Natalia says, “and then it becomes a workforce for everybody.”
[Mathison’s Diversity Sidekick] is a piece of technology that can give somebody a quick language overview, and language is so important to make people feel like they belong in interviews.
Natalia Pedroza, Senior Manager for DE&I
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