While the impacts of 2020’s seismic social and political disruptions will reverberate for some time, in what may come as surprise to some, the corporate boardroom is proving to be fertile ground for incremental social change taking permanent root. As more companies echo a chorus of diversity and inclusion initiatives and attempt to make their workforces more closely reflect society as a whole, several regulators and investors are taking steps to force or encourage boards of directors — that veritable power center of corporate America — to do the same thing, and to do it sooner than later.
