Glass Breakers Café with Cindy featuring Marcus Cooper, Director Global DEI at Zendesk

This week we sit down with Marcus Cooper who is a global diversity, equity and inclusion leader with a passion for social justice and service giving. Marcus is a graduate of the TLC Executive Leadership Fellowship Program (HBS, Fall '18), a White House fellow for LGBTQ professionals in tech (Spring '17), a NY on Tech Innovator and Disruptor (Fall '18) and an active mentor in the startup community.

 

Marcus shared with us his wisdom and insights on:

• His role and his team’s role in implementing an impacting DEI Strategy
• The challenges reason why progress can be slow in the DEI space
• The rewards of being an actor in the DEI space
• The importance of mentorship and sponsorship to catapult minorities’ career
• The corporate expectations of the new generation
• His dream guests for a great lunch..and much more