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Robbins says some signs of unintentional intolerance in the workplace can include:

• High turnover among certain groups of people. For example, if people of particular ethnic groups — Hispanics, Asians and African-Americans — leave at higher rates, that is a red flag.

• Poor performance. People often are blamed when things go wrong, but the real culprit may be a company culture where stress, lack of opportunity and exclusion leads to lower productivity.

• Homogenous leaders. The vast majority of CEOs for Fortune 500 companies are white males, and that is repeated even in the C ranks of management. If a company truly wants to walk the walk of diversity and inclusion, it needs to do so in the management ranks.

• Daily jabs. The "innocent" jokes about weight, gender, race and religion that take place daily in a workplace says a lot about a company's attitude toward tolerance. This lack of respect by workers for others who are different than them can spell trouble, as well as the celebration of "exclusion" holidays or the use of mascots or symbols.