5 Reasons Why Diversity Training Doesn’t Work Jack Manhire, Texas A&M University School of Law Sept. 15, 2015 In 2008, The Washington Post conducted a comprehensive review of 31 years of data from 830 mid to large organizations. What the study found was disturbing. Diversity training at most organizations was followed by a 7.5% decline in female managers. Black female leaders fell by 10% and black male leaders fell by 12%. The results were similar for Hispanics and Asians. What happened here? The review found that the problem wasn’t diversity training itself, but rather how the training was conducted. The training was a litigation mitigation technique instead of a voluntary effort to advance an organization’s goals. Here are 5 reasons why diversity training usually fails, according to Mauricio Velasquez: