The YMCA Gives New Power to Its Diversity Leader

By Cassie J. Moore

When Bank of America acquired LaSalle Bank, in Chicago, late last year, it announced plans to lay off or eliminate the jobs of 2,500 employees in Illinois. David Thomas, then group senior vice president and head of diversity and inclusion at LaSalle Bank/ABN AMRO Bank North America, was among them. But for about five years, Mr. Thomas had been mulling a move to a nonprofit organization. In May, he became vice president for diversity and inclusion at YMCA of the USA, in Chicago.

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