Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are all essential for creating a safe and engaged workplace environment. Learning leaders must strive to fully incorporate and champion DEIB in an organization’s training and development strategy in order to maintain a healthy workplace culture.
Video: Striving for inclusive diversity
Aisha Ghori Ozaki, Allstate’s manager of inclusive diversity, talks about the company's treatment of inclusive diversity as a core value.
Video: How can leaders better support Black employees in the workplace?
During this very human movement — amid social demonstrations, protests for systemic change and public outcry against acts of violence and police brutality — it’s important to also think about how people are impacted in your organization. Leadership should create a safe space for meaningful conversation and posit the organization as a place where Black people and people of color can feel supported.
Inclusion is practice
To create sustainable change, inclusion needs to become a mainstream part of organizational life.
Video: Supporting D&I initiatives and inclusive leadership through a crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated some of the challenges faced by people on the margins of society. Therefore, especially now, it's critically important to not let diversity and inclusion initiatives fall by the wayside.
Inclusion is the X-factor for agility and innovation
Embracing inclusivity does not necessarily require an entire reboot of a company’s culture. Rather, your company can become more inclusive by fostering a greater sense of innovation, inspiring engagement, accelerating your talent and building digital mindsets.
Accountability is key to enabling diversity and inclusion in organizations
Avoid these common missteps well-intentioned organizations and individuals take when it comes to D&I.
Embrace design thinking to advance diversity, equity and inclusion
Design thinking encourages a forward look, playing chess rather than checkers. And design thinking principles can assist us to holistically solve more complex and intertwined DEI challenges today.
To embrace D&I, addressing unconscious bias is only the first step
D&I trainings and workshops are useful tools for businesses hoping to change workplace culture and retain a more diverse workforce, but the remaining question is how to deliver the intended message in a way that resonates with individuals in a sustained and impactful manner.
Diversity and leadership development go hand in hand
Organizations looking at changing and improving leadership development should be including diverse individuals in the process and developing leaders who are consciously inclusive.
Do your inclusivity initiatives measure up?
Intersectionality is key to breaking down barriers, increasing trust and fostering open, honest communication that supports all employees. This, in turn, leads to tangible business benefits.
Experiential Learning Through Cultural Immersion
Is cultural immersion the next wave in leadership development and diversity, equity and inclusion?
Diversity Is Learning’s Business
L&D teams have traditionally shied away from diversity and inclusion work. That’s starting to change.