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With more than 2 million civilian employees, the federal government counts itself as the largest employer of people in the United States. President Biden has issued several executive orders directing his administration to overhaul its hiring practices, procurement, and policies to address systemic racism and inequality. Here, Deloitte Consulting LLP managing director Shrupti Shah, who has advised governments on developing outcome-oriented strategies and the monitoring and managing of performance in more than a dozen countries, explains how the government can be a catalyst for change.

Before President Biden’s series of executive orders, had the federal government ever explicitly addressed racial disparities on this scale?

Shrupti Shah: The federal government has a long history of taking bold actions to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. But that doesn’t diminish the Biden administration’s ambitions. The executive orders specifically reference advancing…