Publications

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Widely considered a leading expert and thought leader in global transformation and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Dr. Rohini Anand is a published author and has been featured in articles in CNBC, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and the Washington Post, among others. Sodexo’s remarkable global culture change, led by Dr. Anand, is featured in a Harvard Business School case study entitled Shifting the Diversity Climate: the Sodexo Solution as well as profiled in several books on global diversity and inclusion.

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• How They Made It in America (2019); Fiona Citkin, Ph.D. (Page 100-110)

• Modern Guide for Equality (2017); Catalyst (Page 56)

• Inclusion Around the Clock (2016); Isabelle Pujol; Pluribus; 1st Chapter

• The SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Competence (2009); Darla K. Deardorff; SAGE Publications, Inc; Part II “Developing Skills for Interculturally Competent Care”

• A Retrospective View of Corporate Diversity Training From 1964 to the Present in Academy of Management Learning and Education, 2008. Vol 7 #3; 356-372

• Customizing Diversity Training Using Case Vignettes (2001); Rohini Anand, Shilpa Alimchandani Hart

• Multicultural Case Studies: Tools for Training (1999); Rohini Anand, Laura K. Shipler; National Multicultural Institute 

• Cultural Competency in Health Care: A Guide for Trainers (1997); Rohini Anand; National Multicultural Institute 

• Teaching Skills and Cultural Competence: A Guide for Trainers (1997); Rohini Anand; National Multicultural Institute  

 
SELECT LISTING OF ARTICLES

   2019

• Strategies for Moving Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Beyond Lip Service; Forbes; September 20, 2019

• Organizational Behavior (2019) Robert Kreitner and Angelo Kinicki (Page 38) 

• 4 ways to Maximize Common Goals of Diversity and Corporate Responsibility Teams; GreenBiz; July 25 

• 4 things Corporate Responsibility Teams should ask Diversity, and Vice Versa; GreenBiz; July 18

• Is Age a Part of Your Inclusion Strategy? SHRM, July 17, 2019 

• Profitability through gender equality (“Ich Mag Keine Quoten Aber Die Ergebnisse” published in German); Cash Magazine; Page 64; July, 2019 

• What is The ROI of Diversity? Why Creating A Culture of Inclusivity is More Than Fair—It’s Smart Business; LinkedIn; June 19, 2019 

• LinkedIn welcomes women food entrepreneurs in pop-up series; Food Management Magazine; June, 2019 

• The plan to fix the lack of diversity at the top of the foodservice industry; We Are Chefs Magazine; May 2019

• The connection between diversity, inclusion and corporate responsibility; GreenBiz; 2019 

• To drive inclusion inside your company, engage with the world outside; LinkedIn; January, 2019 

• Spotlight: Rohini Anand; Inclusion Magazine: January 2019

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   2018

• Paradigm for Parity® Coalition Companies are Setting Gender Parity Goals and Making Progress; Paradigm for Parity; December 2018 

• Sodexo partners with initiative to end gender leadership gaps; HR Drive, August 2018 

• Bringing Your Whole Self to Work, unapologetically; Associate of Corporate Counsel; July 2018

• Workforce Strategies - Diversity and Its Challenges; The More Inclusive Workplace; Bloomberg; July 2018; (Behind paywall)

• Starbucks’ Atonement For “Unconscious Bias” Will Not Work; Townhall; May 2018 

• Q&A: Diversity in the boardroom and C-suite; Financer Worldwide; May 2018 

• Estudio rescata importancia de paridad de género en las empresas: aumenta productividad y compromiso; Diario Financiero; April 2018 

• Evolving the Ecosystem: Making every day International Women’s Day; OECD; 3/27/18 

• Meet the woman who has made Sodexo one of the world’s most women-friendly companies; Your Story; 3/15/18 

• Sodexo Links 10% of the CEO Bonus to Gender Equality Turkish; ,Dunya,Gender; 2/27/18 

• Women's careers experience death by a thousand small cuts: Shachi Irde of Catalyst; YourStory, 2/14/18 

• GM, Sodexo, Others Find Diverse Workforces Drive Business; Bloomberg Law; 3/7/18 

• Gender balanced management teams make for safer and happier employees, study finds; Hospitality Catering News, 3/6/18 

• Organizations Need to Be Welcoming Women More After Breaks; BW Business World, 2/21/18 

• Part 3: Q&A with Global Diversity and Inclusion Leader Rohini Anand, PhD; Catalyst; 2/7/18 

• #MeToo and the economics of gender equality in the workplace: In conversation with Dr Rohini Anand, Times, 2/19/18 

• Part 2: Q&A with Global Diversity and Inclusion Leader Dr. Rohini Anand, Catalyst; 2/7/18 

• Q&A with Sodexo’s Rohini Anand, PhD, Catalyst; 1/23/18 

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   2017

• Catalyst Elects Deloitte's Cathy Engelbert as New Board Chair; Catalyst 

• EBRG Executive Sponsor Spotlight: Tom Morse, Sodexo; MERCER; September 2017 

• Male Mentors Shouldn’t Hesitate to Challenge Their Female Mentees; Harvard Business Review; 5/29/2017

• The State of Gender Diversity 2017; Diversity Women, 3/28/2017

• Study on gender diversity throws a fresh perspective in the mix; The America Genius; 3/16/2017

• If your colleagues are mostly men or mostly women, that's not good; USA Today, Gender; 3/10/2017

• Modern Guide for Equality; The Female Quotient; Catalyst January 2017; p56-58

• 2017 Global Workplace Trends, Sodexo, 2017

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   2016

• How Sodexo and Pearson prioritize their SDGs; GreenBiz; 11/8/2016

• The Rewards of an Engaged Female Workforce; BCG Perspectives, 10/27/2016

• Go ladies, talk shop with peers to rise up the ladder; The Economic Times; 9/21/2016

• Championing Gender Equality Starts with Empowerment; Sodexo Insights, 3/22/2016

• The Time is Now and the Responsibility is Ours: 3 Imperatives to Achieve Gender Parity, Sodexo Insights, 3/8/2016

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   2015

• For Women Executives, Projecting Credibility Globally Means Learning How to Shift Leadership Styles; The Huffington Post, 12/22/2015, URL;

• Three Ways to Bridge the Digital Divide: Improve Your Global Virtual Communication; INC, 11/30/2015

• Beyond the Bottom Line: Benefits of Employee Gender Diversity, The Journal Special Edition, September 2015, URL:

• Promote more women, produce more profit, 3/23/2015, URL:

• Smart businesses put women at the top, CNBC, 3/6/2015, URL:

• Sodexo Successfully Balances D&I with Human Resources, Diversity Global, 2015

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   2014 and Earlier

• Companies hire only women if female talent quits; The Times of India, 8/27/2014

• Services companies get ready to back home offices; The Times of India, 8/2/2012

• An Interview with Rohini Anand; Nation's Restaurant News;2/10/2003, Vol. 37 Issue 6, p24

• Addressing Diversity; FoodService Director;4/15/2002, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p22

• Market Matters; FoodService Director;3/15/2003, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p6

• Diversity, Corporate America and Higher Education; Diverse: Issues in Higher Education;10/19/2006, Vol. 23 Issue 18, p60

• Rohini Anand: Leading Sodexho's Commitment to a Globally Diverse Workforce; Nation's Restaurant News | February 10, 2003

• Creating a culture of inclusion at Sodexho : A Sustainable Strategy for Organizational Success

• Shifting the Diversity Climate: The Sodexo Solution; Harvard Business Review

• How Executives are Pushed to Foster Diversity; Wall Street Journal

• A Retrospective View of Corporate Diversity Training from 1964 to the Present; Article in AMLE co-authored by Mary-Frances Winters and RA

• NASPA - Leadership Exchange Magazine

• Asia Society--Diversity Leadership Forum  

 
Select Citations in DiversityInc: URL: www.diversityinc.com/Search word: Rohini Anand

• Teams with Gender Parity Achieve Better Results Across the Board: Sodexo Finds

• Google Engineer’s Anti-Diversity Memo Displays Company’s Misogynist Culture 

• 8 CEOs Whose Inclusive Styles Change Corporate Cultures 

• ATWG: Why Do Diversity-Management Departments Need Budget

• Benchmarking 

• CEO Commitment 

• Chief Diversity Officer moderators: Dr. Rohini Anand, Sodexo; Emilio Egea, Prudential Financial; Jim Norman, Kraft Foods Luncheon speaker 

• Diversity Events: HACU's Annual Conference

• How Diversity and Inclusion Drive Employee Engagement

• Diversity Leadership: George Chavel, Sodexo 

• Diversity Leadership: John B. Veihmeyer, KPMG 

• Diversity Management: The Chief Diversity Officer's No. 1 Advantage

• Diversity Web Seminar on Metrics for Diversity Management

• Dr. Rohini Anand explains Sodexo's world-leading diversity management; Working Collaboratively With HR

• Dr. Rohini Anand explains Sodexo's world-leading diversity management; Networking & Sharing on ERGs, Diversity Councils

• Dr. Rohini Anand explains Sodexo's world-leading diversity management. Working Collaboratively With HR: Recruitment & Talent

• Dr. Rohini Anand explains Sodexo's world-leading diversity management - Watch as Sodexo's global diversity leader Dr. Rohini Anand analyzes ...

• Dr. Rohini Anand, A Legend in D & I Circles

• Dr. Rohini Anand, Senior Vice President and Global Chief Diversity Officer, Sodexo. Dana Green, Toyota Working Collaboratively With HR 

• Dr. Rohini Anand, senior vice president and global chief diversity officer, cites Sodexo's employee-engagement scores, which have gone up dramatically

• Dr. Rohini Anand, Senior Vice President and Global Chief Diversity Officer, Sodexo. Working Collaboratively With HR 

• Dr. Rohini Anand, Senior Vice President, Global Chief Diversity Officer at Sodexo; Donna Johnson, Chief Diversity Officer at MasterCard Worldwide 

• Dr. Rohini Anand, Sodexo - Should the head of diversity report to HR? Find out what one of the world's most successful CDOs—Rohini Anand—has to say

• Dr. Rohini Anand, Sodexo: Diversity Leader 

• Employee Engagement through Mentoring & Accountability 

• Global CEO Michel Landel, U.S. President and CEO George Chavel, and Senior Vice President and Global Chief Diversity Officer Dr. Rohini Anand 

• Grounded in facts that help us allocate resources for continuous improvement.” Dr. Rohini Anand, senior vice president and global chief diversity officer

• How Diversity and Inclusion Drives Employee Engagement

• How Leadership Expresses Diversity Commitment 

• How to Build Synergy Between Diversity Departments & HR 

• Interview with CEO Michel Landel,” says Senior Vice President and Global Chief Diversity Officer Dr. Rohini Anand

• Kemp also extended special thanks to the prestigious members of the Selection Committee, including: Rohini Anand, Senior Vice President

• Learn/Share Best Practices with the Best: DiversityInc's April Event ...

• Luis Gallegos, Ecuador's Permanent Representative to the U.N., Co-Chair; Rohini Anand, Senior Vice President and Global Chief Diversity 

• Managing Relationships Between HR & Diversity Departments

• Nine Extraordinary Leaders in the Global Disability Community

• No. 1: Sodexo - DiversityInc

• Panelists Dr. Rohini Anand, Senior Vice President and Global Chief Diversity Officer, Sodexo; Jorge Caballero, Tax Partner at Deloitte Tax and more..

• Panelists: Dr. Rohini Anand, Sodexo; Dana Foote, KPMG; and Pedro Suriel, Accenture. 

• Rohini Anand, Sodexo, at Innovation Fest Managing Relationships Between HR & Diversity Departments

• Rohini Anand, Sodexo, at Innovation Fest Managing Relationships Between HR & Diversity Departments; Diversity experts at our event analyze challenges

• Senior Vice President and Global Chief Diversity Officer Dr. Rohini Anand have put the company on the front lines of new and expanded diversity initiatives

• Should Your Diversity Department Report to HR? Find out what one of the world's most successful CDOs—Rohini—has to say 

• Sodexo: No. 1 in the DiversityInc Top 50 - DiversityInc

• Sodexo's Dr. Rohini Anand, senior vice president and global chief diversity officer, is well known in diversity-management circles

• Sodexo's Dr. Rohini Anand: Breaking Gender Barriers & Creating Change

• Sodexo's Employee Engagement - Gender Equity & Fighting World

• Sodexo's Global CEO Leverages Diversity 

• Sodexo's President and CEO George Chavel and Senior Vice President and Global Chief Diversity Officer Dr. Rohini Anand spoke with DiversityInc 

• Succession Planning - DiversityInc Best Practices living text book of 

• Succession Planning: Moving Diversity to the Top - DiversityInc

• Talent Development - DiversityInc Best Practices living text book 

• Talent Development/ Mentoring Articles. Should Diversity Report to HR? 

• The best diversity department in the nation for sales development is run by Dr. Rohini Anand at Sodexo 

• The Unveiling of the 2010 DiversityInc Top 50 - DiversityInc

• The Viscardi Center Awards Committee Announced 

• What Diversity-Management Questions Should Be

• What's the Biggest Global Diversity Challenge? Female Talent Development 

• Why do you have to have employee affinity groups or network groups? Rohini Anand, Senior Vice President, Global Chief Diversity Officer

• Working Collaboratively With HR: Recruitment & Talent  

 
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION WHITE PAPERS

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• Why “LGBTQ-Welcoming” will Soon be a Hallmark of the Most Successful Senior Living Communities: A Primer for Operators, Marketers & Leadership (2019)

• Common Purpose: The intersection of Diversity & Inclusion and Corporate Responsibility in the United States (2019)

• Healthcare Administrators: The 2043 Business Imperative - Advocating for Hispanic Leadership in Healthcare and Cultural Competence (2019)

• Addressing Culture and Origins Across the Globe: Lessons from Australia, Brazil, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States (2019)

• Guiding Gen Z from Campus to Corporate Life: What College and University Administrators and Talent Recruiters Need to Know (2018)

• Sodexo’s Gender Balance Study 2018: Expanded Outcomes Over 5 Years (2018)

Rohini Anand
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