Why Diversity and Inclusion Must Include Faith with Pat Gelsinger

I'd say, you know, first the thesis behind how you bring your faith into the workplace. And today there's a lot of discussion on diversity and inclusion. Okay. And it turns out that for humanity, over 70% of all humans on the earth claim that faith is an or the most important thing in their lives. So if we're going to talk about diversity and inclusion, but we're not going to allow faith in the workplace, I'm telling 70% of humanity, no, the most important thing to you can't come into the workplace. So of course, diversity and inclusion means that faith needs to come into the workplace. It needs to be visible. Otherwise, I'm telling you, keep that at home, but other aspects of inclusion you're able to bring into the workplace. You know, that doesn't work, right? You know, diversity and inclusion is all about bringing your whole self into the workplace, your ethnic self, you know, your sexual orientation, your social and your faith. So I say, I'm proud of bringing my faith into the workplace. And in fact, if I, as the CEO, who's the chief culture officer of Intel, can't demonstrate my diversity in the workplace, then how can anybody? So in fact, I need to be representing my faith, what's most important to me or other aspects of my personality in the workplace. But then the second piece of it is, is I also then as a Christian CEO need to make it okay for everybody else to bring their faith perspectives into the workplace. And Oh, you're a Sikh. Tell me about being a Sikh. Oh, what's Ramadan? You know, let's go. Hey, you know, I just was talking to my board of directors, I was celebrating Ramadan and I said, next year, I'm going to celebrate it with you. And I'm going to do the fasting with you next year as well. I'm going to know about your faith and your perspectives and so on. And for that, you know, people might say, well, you're proselytizing if you talk about your faith. No, I'm bringing my whole self into the workplace and I must make it okay for all other faiths, faith perspectives, including no faith. Right? You know, some will say, you know, I'm an atheist. I don't believe in any faith. Well, great. That's your worldview. And I need to make that okay too when they're part of my team, part of the workplace that we're together sharing.