The Mavericks dedicated a week of leadership meetings to racial injustice
Cynt Marshall · How I Built Resilience: Cynt Marshall of Dallas Mavericks · Oct 10, 2020 · at 20:15
Cynt Marshall, CEO of the Dallas Mavericks, recounts how the organization responded internally to the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
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“When the George Floyd thing happened, some of our African American men said, somebody call sent. We need to talk like today. And so we talked for three hours that Friday night. And then that Monday, my leadership team called turned into a whole conversation around race. Then our entire weekly huddle, we have all these kind of touch points, for a solid week, all of them were around what was happening with social justice.”
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