Personally, from my experiences in internships and class projects, I’ve always had a positive outcome with diversity in the team. When it comes to getting work done, different perspectives and ways of judgment are always helpful, though not everything is used, they are considered. One thing about diversity that slows me (personally) is accent. I find strong accents distracting and I usually ask people to repeat themselves if I don’t understand. Then again, it doesn’t hinder the progress it just slows me down a bit. But I am respectful of such differences and must try my best to pick up on the message being delivered than getting caught up in the language, tone, and accent.

Current, I work in quality which is similar to regulatory and the best part of this department is that there is a fixed set of rules and procedures to follow, so different perspectives and voices don’t affect or change things a lot. Rather, we must all must come to one set of mindset and that is to follow FDA’s procedures religiously. Maybe people working in other fields will be affected more by human differences but not so much is regulatory.