Leading for Change: Inside the Fight to Diversify the Boardroom with E.l.f. and Oberland

Featuring Kate Charles, Chief Strategy Officer and Laurie Lam, Chief Brand Officer, E.l.f. Beauty Moderated by Kc Ifeanyi, Executive Director of Editorial Programming, Fast Company E.l.f. Beauty conducted a study with brand agency Oberland and found that there are more men named Ricard, Rich, and Rick on public company boards in the U.S. than entire groups of underrepresented people. That discovery led to the “So Many Dicks” campaign that’s just part of an overarching initiative to double the rate of women and people of color added to boards by 2027. Hear from Laurie Lam, chief brand officer at E.l.f., and Kate Charles, chief strategy officer at Oberland, on how they’re getting it done.

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Leading for Change: Inside the Fight to Diversify the Boardroom with E.l.f. and Oberland

Featuring Kate Charles, Chief Strategy Officer and Laurie Lam, Chief Brand Officer, E.l.f. Beauty

Moderated by Kc Ifeanyi, Executive Director of Editorial Programming, Fast Company

E.l.f. Beauty conducted a study with brand agency Oberland and found that there are more men named Ricard, Rich, and Rick on public company boards in the U.S. than entire groups of underrepresented people. That discovery led to the “So Many Dicks” campaign that’s just part of an overarching initiative to double the rate of women and people of color added to boards by 2027. Hear from Laurie Lam, chief brand officer at E.l.f., and Kate Charles, chief strategy officer at Oberland, on how they’re getting it done.