Appreciate your article about employee affinity/resource groups and options to make them successful The only point that I would like to add is that a miss that I often see is active outreach by an employee affinity/resource group to encourage people from other demographic groups to attend their functions. And, to make certain that this invitation is truly inviting and makes clear about how one might benefit from attending. Back to your point about Eric Holder’s comments, the biggest challenge in encouraging conversation across differences, particularly race and gender is the lack of authentic contact in the workplace. Without contact, it’s difficult to build trusting relationships so necessary to be in difficult conversations. In my opiion, employee affinity/resource groups offer a great process to encourage such contact and informal relationship building.