cause of your volunteer efforts in the local community, your supervisor has appointed you to lead DEI $($Diversity$,$ Equity, and Inclusion$)$ efforts at your medium$-$sized company. As you begin doing research on the diversity of the company's workforce, it appears that the company's employees are indeed diverse, having good representation from various races and ethnicities, genders, people of varying sexual orientation, religions, abilities, and ages. However, as you spend a bit more time researching diversity in employment practices, you learn that it is not enough to have a diverse workforce but also a diverse workforce at all levels of the organization. What you instead discover is that women and BIPOC $($Black$,$ Indigenous, People of Color$)$ employees are almost entirely employed at the lower levels of the organization but management and corporate $($C$-$Suite$)$ levels are almost exclusively made up of white, male employees.

Your task is to write a short message to share with the executive team and board in which you recommend changes to the hiring and succession training processes so that the organization's leadership better reflects the diversity of the workforce as a whole.

The channel that you use to communicate your message $($email$,$ memo, three$-$ to four$-$slide PowerPoint presentation, etc.$)$ is up to you. However, part of business communication is choosing your channel mindfully and then formatting your message appropriately. If you compose an email, it should have a To:$,$ From:, Date:, Subject:, and correct spacing for an email