FILE PHOTO: The logo of Price Waterhouse Coopers is seen at its Berlin office in Berlin, Germany, September 20, 2019. REUTERS/Wolfgang RattayThe U.S. vice chair of accounting and advisory giant PwC is spending most of his time these days heading up CEO Action for Racial Equity, a group of more than 100 prominent firms and chief executives trying to move the needle on social issues.
Reuters spoke with Weathers about what has divided the United States – and how to bring it back together. Edited excerpts are below.A: For almost four years we have been part of CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion, which PwC chair Tim Ryan helped launch and now has 1,500 organizations and CEOs signed on. CEO Action on Racial Equity is basically a spinoff of that, after the George Floyd killing and all the events last summer.A: The best place to operate is in a society that is healthy.
For instance, in an area like education, is there some new policy that could help at the city, state or federal level? So they are thinking about gaps, they are doing research, and they are driving public policies to help bring change.A: There are 250 fellows from 115 different companies so far, and by the end of January, we should have another couple of hundred.
If it works, why not give it a go... To un-brainwash centuries of entrenched racism, any approach to levitate it has got to be good...