I hope CEOs watching at home take a moment to reflect on how much unchecked power you have, how you abuse that power daily, and how many employees of yours are enduring repeated abuse but unsafe to speak up because they, even collectively, lack that power.

It is very easy to see other companies and CEOs under scrutiny and dunk on them.

It is very difficult to use this as an opportunity to see how you have the same power structure, are indoctrinated into white supremacy, and are also complicit and part of the problem.

Tech CEBros will have a hard time effecting change because they instinctively will protect their legacy hires.

(Read: often underqualified buddy early hires from the centred majority who can endure more corporate trauma due to their relative privilege).

Legacy hires will often gatekeep promotions, new hires from anyone who is seen as challenging status quo; the system that allowed their mediocrity to thrive.

Any DEI effort is going to be thwarted by these legacy hires and a misalignment of what CEOs are actually willing to do to effect real change. Most CEOs are too cowardly to shift the targets for legacy hires, but fine to do that for underestimated and historically excluded ones.

Until the centred majority are willing to openly challenge the centred majority IN THEIR OWN WORKPLACES, prioritising harm reduction over ego, things will not change.

After all, it’s only a matter of time before you have your Hey day.