In an NEPC exclusive fireside chat, titled “Is the Investment Industry Ready to Be Color Brave™,” Mellody Hobson, co-CEO and President of Ariel Investments sat down with Chenae Edwards, Senior Consultant on NEPC’s Healthcare team and co-chair of NEPC’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Network, to speak candidly about a key issue: diversity in finance. The talk returns to issues Hobson raises in her popular TED Talk on the importance of speaking openly about diversity in hiring to improve business and society at large.