Florida’s ‘Guilt’ Ban May Squeeze Race Out of Diversity Training

Florida’s new law prohibiting concepts based on critical race theory from mandatory workplace trainings leaves the state’s employers with three options to continue racial diversity trainings: adjusting them, making them optional, or doing away with them all together.

To Tammy Hodo, president of All Things Diverse LLC, a Florida-based diversity training company, none of those are acceptable. If employers aren’t willing to present her trainings—which include modules on systematic racism—as they come, “I’m not going to water down what needs to be said and done, that’s a no-go for me,” Hodo said.

Hodo predicts most employers will make their trainings ...