The Importance of Diversity, Equality and Inclusivity in Your Business. Hannah Boike is a hiring and recruiting professional with WalkerScout. WalkerScout is a unique RPO (recruitment process outsourcing) provider. Its mission is to help dog walking, dog daycare, and dog training businesses scout, hire, and support their teams. She is very passionate about implementing kindness, inclusivity, and diversity in the hiring process. She believes social justice, having empathy, and connecting with other people’s experiences is a vital component of any successful business and especially key in the animal care industry where kindness and compassion are core values. Joe Latona also appears on this episode. Joe is a motivated and dedicated HR professional, dog walking since 2008 and hiring staff since 2009. He has built award winning dog walking teams in Chicago and has hired pet care professionals across the United States. He is the founder of WalkerScout. Show Highlights: Learning about Diversity, Equality and Inclusivity [3:16] Financial returns for businesses practicing inclusivity [3:30] Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? [4:28] What can pet sitting businesses do and what are some ways we can be more inclusive? [7:20] Making a DEI Statement and Resources for Help  [9:20] Joe Latona’s tips on ways to be more diverse and inclusive today and in your hiring process [10:50] Tailoring your website and ads, staff bios to include the LGBTQ and other underrepresented individuals [11:40] Tweetables: [Tweet "Pride isn’t Helpful. Empathy is Better"] [Tweet "When it comes to inclusivity, doing nothing is easy but it’s not an option."] [Tweet "...companies with the most ethnically/culturally diverse executive teams – not only in terms of absolute representation but also of the variety or mix of ethnicities10 – are 33% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability"] Share The Show: Did you enjoy the show? We would love it if you subscribed today and left us a 5-star review! Click this link –Bella In Your Business Click on the ‘Subscribe’ button below the artwork Go to the ‘Ratings and Reviews’ section Transcript: This is episode 223 of Bella in Your Business. Hi there, I'm Bella Vasta from Jump Consulting. You might know me from CBS, NBC, Fox, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, or maybe you've seen me speak on stage or read my book, The Four Dogs That Every Business Owner Needs. In any case, get ready because you're about to get your hashtag Bella Butt Kickin' in this next episode of Bella in Your Business. So what do you say? Let's get ready and jump. Welcome everybody to another episode of Bella in Your Business. My name is Bella Vasta from Jump Consulting, and today I actually have brought back on Joe with Hannah. You guys might remember a couple of episodes ago. Joe's from Walker Scout. He is one of the only dog recruiters I know out there that actually has been a dog walker and also created an entire business helping many people around the country and in other countries to hire. He is joined today by Hannah, and Hannah is really the main focus today because she knocked my socks off, you guys. Joe, you're amazing, but Hannah is too—and typically amazing people hang out with amazing people, so that's why we're all hanging out together. Hannah has also been a dog walker as well, but she helps and assists Joe in interviewing applicants for animal care jobs all over the country. She has this aura about her that she wants to make people feel comfortable as they're being interviewed by being kind, inclusive, and compassionate. She's always trying to learn new things about recruiting and social justice to improve our business practices and make changes that can cater to our rapidly changing world. I really loved this topic and what she has to say, and I cannot wait to get into her mind today and also expose all of you guys to it because I think it might give yo...