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This structure presents challenges for a few reasons:

 Leadership woes, part one: For starters, determining who leads this effort — a supplier diversity professional or a DEI professional — is tricky. Just as HR and procurement are two distinct functions, each with different sensibilities and competencies, so are supplier diversity and DEI. You wouldn’t hire a procurement professional to run HR and vice versa.

 Leadership woes, part two: Because the professional competencies are different, managing them under one umbrella usually ends with one person woefully unprepared to lead or manage the other program. They end up directing much of their time where they’re most comfortable while not paying enough, if any, attention to the other program.

 Perceived prioritization: Having someone from one program lead the combined effort may give the impression that that program is more of a priority than the other.