The rise and fall of the Chief Diversity Officer

Two years ago chief diversity officers were some of the hottest hires into executive ranks. Now, they increasingly feel left out in the cold. …

In interviews, current and former chief diversity officers said company executives at times didn’t want to change hiring or promotion processes, despite initially telling CDOs they were hired to improve the talent pipeline. The quick about-face shows company enthusiasm for diversity initiatives hasn’t always proved durable, leaving some diversity officers now questioning their career path.

[Sounds like great news to me. Diversity “officers” were always about virtue signaling to activist shareholders at the expense of both the bottom line and the customer. Human-resource professionals can handle diversity in hiring, and everything else is simply nonsense. The pandemic belt-tightening, as well as consumer backlash to ridiculous diversity campaigns, made this class of executives an easily removable appendix. — Ed]