I said it from the beginning: After George Floyd’s body cooled in the ground, corporate DEI commitments would cool with it. Not because justice was achieved, but because many institutions were never committed in the first place. And now it’s happening. Companies are rolling back initiatives. DEI teams are shrinking. Boards are frustrated. Employees feel disillusioned and tokenized. The truth is unavoidable: DEI became performative, not transformative. So I asked myself a different question: If DEI is collapsing, what rises in its place? What leads us beyond optics, quotas, and compliance toward something rooted in conviction, character, and real change? That question led me to build a new foundation: The Ethical Leadership & Stewardship (ELS) Model — a values-based model centered on principled inclusion, transformational stewardship, and moral courage. From that foundation, a fuller vision emerged. PRISM™. PRISM is the leadership alternative to performative DEI: A framework grounded in purpose, ethics, regeneration, integrity, and self-mastery. It shifts inclusion from identity politics to principled leadership. It replaces symbolism with stewardship. It transforms leaders from the inside out. Born out of research and refined through practice, PRISM equips leaders to build cultures where people don’t just fit in — they flourish. Because when leadership is anchored in purpose and ethics, the outcome isn’t just progress. It’s transformation.