Five successful-and diverse-people talk about the evolving character of American business.

The American workplace increasingly resembles a salad-one that's been assembled at a very well-stocked salad bar. Some of the ingredients are what you'd predict (lettuce isn't going away any time soon), but others are unexpected: walnuts and pear slices and dried cranberries. The result is a livelier mixture than the fare of twenty, ten, or even five years ago. In real-world terms: Diversity is enriching American business in surprising ways. Just look at the five people profiled in these pages. We talked to them about the cultural shift that's changing "diversity" from a feel-good buzzword to a business reality. These are the faces of that change.

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