A multi-national insurance company such as AIG perhaps isn’t the first brand that would come to mind as spearheading the diversity cause in conservative Japan, but the company’s move to partner with New Zealand’s world champion rugby teams – the All Blacks and the Black Ferns– on AIG’s #DiversityIsStrength campaign has created a viral sensation with a message.
According to Matthew Walker, Senior Vice President and Regional Chief Marketing Officer of AIG Japan, diversity is not a flash-in-the-pan marketing trend so much as an area vitally important to the overall success of the business in Japan, where AIG is a...