Imagine the workplace like the first day of a new school. Its lunchtime. You grab your lunch tray and try to find a place to sit among a sea of people you do not know. Where you choose to sit is important. Sometimes you sit by people you think you will get along with to varying results, sometimes you are so busy you just grab a seat and don't care who you sit by, sometimes the seat you take evolves into no discussions/impact, and sometimes you soon met your new best friends. If there is one thing that rings true, had you not taken a chance to sit by someone you don't know, you wouldn't have the chance to meet someone new, perhaps the jackpot, in finding someoone you resonate with or feel like you belong. This entire experience (life) is about relationships, and if we don't build relationships with people who think different or are different to ourselves, how can we grow? We then stay in that bubble, at that same lunch table, never venturing beyond the first person who showed friendliness, despite maybe having later grown as people. As far as diversity, imagine if during lunch hour you were only allowed to sit with those there by invitation, a guest list decided by someone, curated among potential biases. You are then robbed of potentially beautiful, positive or negative experiences, in which you can learn from, grow from, enrich your life, change your perspective, make you stronger. While I agree that as a woman sometimes the term diversity makes some colleagues think I do not deserve to be there, but I argue then that they themselves never like to venture beyond the comfort of the table they sat at on the first day, and cliques truly benefit few. Our collective experience is robbed without a collective seat at the table.