Jodi Kovitz | Talk Boutique Salon: Diversity … or Empathy?
Jodi Kovitz, Founder and CEO of #movethedial spoke of the lack of female leadership in the tech industry. Her heartfelt and emotionally charged talk recounted her own experience taking a leadership role with a tech-based nonprofit and seeing the lack of diversity everywhere she spoke. This spurred her to start a conversation which has become the global movement, #movethedial. Jodi captured the spirit of the evening with the quote: “Diversity is being invited to the party; Inclusion is being asked to dance… however, Belonging is dancing like nobody’s watching.” In January 2018, #movethedial officially launched as a company with Jodi as the Founder and CEO, dedicated to empowering and encouraging women of diverse backgrounds and cultures to step into the male-dominated tech industry and make their voices heard.