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Why do organizations struggle with creating inclusive organizational cultures that would allow them to retain strong and diverse talent?\\xa0 The Answer: Organizations struggle with creating an inclusive context because with less than 5% of leaders in organizations being women, black, indigenous, people of colour or members of the LGBTQ+ communities, inclusion is simply not a challenge they have personally faced.\\xa0 The majority of leaders of Canadian and US organizations today have not had to struggle with asserting their identity - they have encountered few if any roadblocks stopping them from being who they are or leveraging that identity to foster excellence.\\xa0 So, for them, inclusion is usually a blind spot - not in the words they use - but in how they structure systems - they struggle to make inclusion a priority - even if it is a fundamental driver of firm performance.\\xa0 This episode of VOICES WORTH LISTENING TO explores how inclusion is the secret sauce of firm performance and suggests eight strategies to get inclusion right.\\xa0