How We Can Reshape Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Together | Kia Afcari | TEDxGeorgetown 

Afcari shares insights on the strengths and weaknesses of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts today. He offers a solution for the future in which these efforts are intentionally shaped with the involvement of more communities. Kia Afcari is an executive coach, consultant and co-founder of Caravann Consulting with over 25 years of experience helping leaders, teams, and organizations with collaborative change and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Kia lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he helps organizations around the world to actualize their future of work. As a child, Kia landed in rural Louisiana during the Iranian hostage crisis and got beat up for being an Iranian kid. While that was not a welcoming place for him, it did instill in him this deep passion to help create positive and inclusive organizational cultures. Today, Kia and his team support a wide variety of organizations, from United Nations agencies, to tech companies and universities. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx