The Walt Disney Company appears ready to drop “Diversity Equity and Inclusion” in favor of “belonging.” After a tumultuous upheaval at the House of Mouse following the last presidential election, in which controversial programs like “Reimagine Tomorrow” were purged from the entertainment juggernaut, Disney is retooling employee outreach next week with a program all about “belonging” rather than DEI.
Here’s the memo that went out earlier this week, picked up by Business Insider, for Disney’s “Global Belonging Week”:
Disneyland Pride Nite via Patrick Dougall YouTube
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“You’re Invited: Global Belonging Week
Details for Disney’s inaugural Global Belonging Week, October 20—24, 2025, are here! Join us for this employee-exclusive, virtual and in-person experience.Employees around the world are invited to join planned experiences focused on ways to increase your belonging and opportunities to thrive. We know that when employees feel a sense of belonging, they thrive, and so does the magic of Disney!
This voluntary week of events is designed to celebrate our rich culture, spark engagement, and empower each of us to do our best every day. Throughout the week, you’ll get:
Insight from keynote speakers designed to empower and inspire you.
Engaging learning experiences that foster a deeper understanding of the core value of inclusion and the power of belonging.
Opportunities to network and create meaningful connections with colleagues, as well as volunteer opportunities with Disney VoluntEARS.No registration required. Visit the page below to learn about each event and to save them to your calendars.
This is an employee-only event.
And here’s Disney’s “Global Belonging Week” itinerary:
Monday, October 20, 2025
Opening Keynote and Kickoff
1:00 PM — 2:00 PM PDT / 4:00 PM — 5:00 PM EDT
Arda Ocal: Host, ESPN
Jill Estorino: President & Managing Director, Disney Parks International
Rita Ferro: President, Global Disney Advertising
Joe Earley: President, Direct-to-Consumer, Disney Entertainment
Renato D’Angelo: General Manager Brazil & Head of Marketing Out-of-Home LATAM for The Walt Disney Company
Tinisha Agramonte: SVP and Chief Opportunity & Inclusion Officer, The Walt Disney Company
Sonia Coleman: Senior Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, The Walt Disney CompanyTuesday, October 21, 2025
Belonging and Thriving: Journeys from Humble Beginnings to First Generation Corporate Professionals
9:00 AM — 10:00 AM PDT / 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM EDT
Tinisha Agramonte: Moderator, SVP and Chief Opportunity & Inclusion Officer, The Walt Disney Company
Sonia Coleman: Senior Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, The Walt Disney Company
Robert Thompson: Chief Operating Officer, Partners Federal Credit UnionArt of Belonging: Moana
1:00 PM — 1:30 PM PDT / 4:00 PM — 4:30 PM EDTLivestream Details
Please return to this event page to view the live event.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Telling Stories That Resonate: The Global Impact of Lilo & Stitch
9:00 AM — 10:00 AM PDT / 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM EDT
Anastasia Ali: Moderator, Vice President, Inclusive Marketing & Audience Growth, The Walt Disney Company
Maddie Woods: Director, Digital Marketing, The Walt Disney Studios
Megan Denman: Director, Production, The Walt Disney StudiosThursday, October 23, 2025
Cultivating a Culture of Belonging through Interpersonal Connections with Patrice Borders
9:00 AM — 10:00 AM PDT / 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM EDT
Livestream Details
Please return to this event page to view the live event.Art of Belonging: Encanto
1:00 PM — 1:30 PM PDT / 4:00 PM — 4:30 PM EDT
Livestream Details
Please return to this event page to view the live event.Friday, October 24, 2025
Global Belonging Week Closing
1:00 PM — 2:00 PM PDT / 4:00 PM — 5:00 PM EDT
Keynote Speaker
Juju Chang: Co-anchor, ABC News’ “Nightline”On Demand
Cross Cultural Connections: Where Belonging Begins
On Demand
Please return to this during Global Belonging Week to watch the video.Belong & Thrive: The Joy of Intersectionality, Allyship & Inclusion
On Demand
Please return to this page during Global Belonging Week to watch the video.”
The change in tone from Disney follows NBC terminating a huge portion of its diversity staff within the Comcast company.
In one of the most dramatic reorganizations in recent media news, NBC News cut roughly 150 employees—about 7% of its newsroom (NBC has countered, claiming it is only about 2%)—amid a broader corporate restructuring tied to Comcast’s impending spinout of its cable assets into a new entity called Versant.
Among the hardest hit were NBC’s diversity-oriented editorial verticals: dedicated teams that produced content under brands such as NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino, and NBC Out were largely dismantled. While NBC says the verticals will persist in concept, enabled by contributions from the broader newsroom, the distinct staff infrastructure and focus that underpinned those efforts are now gone.
Disney+ ‘This Is Me’ Pride Celebration Spectacular via Disney Plus YouTube
If it appears to you that a movement is underway, subtly in corporate America, to quietly move away from the DEI language of the last decade, you’re not wrong. Will it return with political winds should they shift again? It’s anyone’s guess about what C-Suites across the USA might deem as “belonging” other than the employees enjoying a new buzzword and movement.
Do you think Disney is actually ditching its DEI initiatives or simply rebranding them? Sound off in the comments and let us know!
Same crap under a new name. Just like “BRIDGE”
Simple rebranding to hide the woke garbage under the surface.
Anti-Whites by another euphemism. Keep up the boycotts.
Rebranding more like. As they say themselves, it’ still about “the core value of inclusion”. Same old same old.
lol they aren’t dropping DEI. They just hired a DEI director for around a quarter mil a year salary. Not giving a cent to Disney.
It’s just a rebranding. It’s all social marxism under different names. The very people pushing social maxism aren’t going away and they are backed by the deepest pockets on this planet, so it doesn’t even matter, that they never break even with anything they do. The companies at the front might break, but the real problem in the back still prevails and keeps making new companies and new names for their ideology.
And most of you have already given in to them by accepting gay marriages and the sexual Revolution before that. You will most likely also accept trans at some point. It’s just a question of time. And after that you will accept the next even more abominable thing eventually. Because if your morals don’t have a foundation, then your morals can become anything. And in order to have a solid foundation for morals you need an objective standard, which can only be found in god. Because gods morals apply to everyone. If people want it or not. Just like a countries laws apply to you even if you don’t accept them. But unlike god laws aren’t infallible. They can change over time and what used to be unthinkable yesterday can become tomorrows law. This is impossible with god, because god never changes.
But you shouldn’t seek god for the objective standard in morals but for forgiveness, for all the sins we commit against him every day. God is prefect so his standard is perfection. So if you stand before the all powerful, all knowing, prefectly righteous and prefectly just god, if you have committed only one sin, your punishment is eternal damnation. A judge in this world will not drop the charges against you, because you’ve did so many good deeds beside this one crime. How do you expect the prefectly just god to do this?
Luckily god is also merciful so he made a way for us to be saved without him having sin go unpunished and thus being unjust. He himself in the person of Jesus Christ was born into this world and became human. He lived a live with the same struggles, same temptations and the same pains as us and he did what we would never be able to do. He lived a prefectly righteous life without sin and he became the prefect sacrifice for all of our sins. So if you believe in Jesus Christ you will become one body with him and all the brothers and sisters who also believe in him. And through his sacrifice he took the punishment for all our sins and his righteous deeds of living a life without sin will also become our righteous deeds before god. And just like Jesus rose again we will also rise again. But we will not rise in the old flesh, but we’ll rise as a new creation free of sin and suffering.