By infusing DEI conversation into our daily interactions, we can become more aware and over time change our behaviors and contribute to a culture of inclusion. You will find five questions that are designed to inspire dialogue on the topic of unconscious bias.

By infusing DEI conversation into our daily interactions we can become more aware and over time change our behaviors and contribute to a culture of inclusion. You will find five questions that are designed to inspire dialogue on the topic of psychological safety.

This tool is designed to help you assess the effectiveness of your DEI leadership capability.  Upon completion, you can assess your results using the self-scoring guidelines.

The ERG Member Profile is a template that you can use to interview ERG members.

The Who is in my Network Worksheet is a resource to help you identify the people in your network who can support your career goals. The worksheet is broken out into three segments: (1) your personal network; (2) your workplace network and; (3) your professional network.

The resources inventory is a tool to help you identify the variety of resources that are available to support your development and your achievement of career goals.

One of the most effective ways to develop yourself and move your career forward is to look for internal career mobility opportunities. Here are some tips and strategies you can use in order to make the most of these opportunities and to ensure you are seriously considered for internal promotion.

As diversity practitioners we are in a constant and never ending search for diversity champions – those in our organization who have the power, the influence and quite frankly the budgets to help drive our vision of inclusion. I might argue that the search is actually not the hard part. Every individual is a diversity champion in the making.

Navigating relationships across difference can pose challenges and requires some cultural knowledge to navigate this terrain. Here are some tips for developing cultural sensitivity in your patient/customer interactions.

In order to find return on recruitment dollars spent, organizations must ensure their D&I strategies include formal initiatives aimed at providing underrepresented employee groups with opportunities to connect with managers and leaders, develop and grow leadership capability and voice opinions and concerns. This article reveals five best practices for creating inclusive work environments that enable the growth, development and success of all talent.

This article highlights some traditional and non-traditional ways organizations can recruit diverse candidates and build its diversity brand.

This business alignment conversation starter is designed to help managers and their teams recognize opportunities to leverage diversity – particularly diversity of thought – to improve business results.

A micro-affirmation is a small acknowledgment of another person’s value. It’s a subtle act of inclusion and kindness and can be just as powerful as a micro-aggression.

This tool provides a framework for you to use in creating your own D&I strategy. Includes some examples as a reference.

Quick tips and how-tos to help you navigate diversity challenges and opportunities

Use this Take Fives as a quick and easy way to infuse conversations about diversity and inclusion into everyday meeting agendas.

With the constant barrage of news feeds, tweets and blog posts it’s almost impossible to keep discussions regarding charged topics such as politics, religion, race, immigration, gun control and women’s rights from permeating our workplaces. It can be tricky to navigate topics like these at work. But, with some basic ground rules, these discussions can be enlightening—no matter which side of the issue you’re on.

The Addressing Hate and Discrimination Against AAPI Guide is a tool for leading a discussion to address the escalating events of hate and violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI).

The Addressing Hate and Discrimination Guide is a tool for leading a discussion to address the escalating events of hate and violence that occur in our community and in the media. The goal of the guide is to help foster an environment where employees can express their feelings and concerns, process their emotions and discuss opportunities and solutions for fostering psychological safety in the workplace and more broadly in the world.

Facilitation is the art of leading people through a process in order to collectively reach agreed-upon objectives in a manner that encourages participation, respect, and creativity by all those involved. These tips can help ensure your conversations are effective and productive.

Conversations that allow employees to share their experiences, their views, their concerns, and their ideas can be an important and effective way to not only build awareness but change hearts.  Even small five-minute conversations can expand our thinking and build comradery among team members.

The Courageous Conversations Facilitator Toolkit is a guide to help you lead difficult conversations in order to deepen understanding across difference. This guide provides tools, tips and materials to help you prepare, host and lead a dialogue based on any topic aimed at understanding difference and resolving conflict. Throughout the year we will provide some facilitator’s discussion guides on specific topics.

Using someone’s correct personal pronouns is as important as remembering and using someone’s correct name. If this seems unusual, unimportant or unreasonable to you, then you are most likely coming at this from a place of privilege. Your assumed pronouns are aligned with how you identify and therefore are not a point of stress or concern – ultimately, they are in fact unimportant to you. But for nonbinary, transgender or gender nonconforming individuals, personal gender pronouns are immensely important and can be an enormous source of anxiety.

Out & Equal’s Pronoun Guide provides strategies for inclusion in the workplace.

MyPronouns.org is a practical resource dedicated to the empowering and inclusive use of personal pronouns in the English language. This website will help you understand why and how to use the pronouns someone goes by. In particular, we are focusing on pronouns used to refer to a singular human in the third person.

Language surrounding identity is constantly evolving. And while using non-binary pronouns might at first be challenging, using someone’s personal gender pronoun is as important as using their correct name. It takes awareness, understanding and practice. Here are some tips for getting it right.

Why is it so important for us to know someone else’s gender? We live in a gendered world, but for Audrey, gender is fluid at best, an uncomfortable construct for most of us. Is there a way to be less reliant on gender in our interactions with people?  Use this Ted Talk and Discussion Guide to host a conversation with your team.

The Addressing Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation is a tool for leading a discussion to address the number of bills / legislation that is / will negatively affect the LGBTQ+ community. The goal is to provide a forum where employees can process their emotions, discuss their feelings and strategize actions and solutions.