As a small business owner, I often team team up with other DEI practicioners. If you're wondering what this work is about or how to get started, check-out my most-shared resources, all created by my brilliant teammates: 

Resources

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    Your Concerns About Tokenizing Are Valid, and Here’s Why

    By Mackenzie Price and Acacia Betancourt | Well-intentioned public media organizations want to show the world that they are nurturing diversity but workplace tokenization can work against DEI efforts.

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    What Transparency and Accountability Look Like in Organizations

    By Minal Bopaiah | Definitions and detailed examples of what these values look like in practice and how practicing them within organizations builds trust.

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    Inclusive leadership requires humility

    By Shilpa Alimchandani | A lot has been said about performative allyship, the disingenuous attempts to indicate solidarity with marginalized groups that amounts to little more than hashtags and empty public statements.

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    CADIA Connects

    CADIA Connects is a no-cost offering from the Center for Automotive Diversity, Inclusion & Advancement. The sessions are geared towards anyone in the automotive, mobility, manufacturing or related industry interested in connecting with others.

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    How To Hire A DEI Consultant

    DEI can feel like the Wild West these days; the field is peppered with snake oil salesmen and ambulance chasing consultants. Without naming names, we’ll tell you how to know who to trust and share pricing data so that you can budget for your level of commitment appropriately.

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    Foundational Principles Of Inclusive Change Management

    What does it take to manage change inclusively? Pacing, listening, and trust. Drawing on personal experience and organizational development theory, Partner & Senior Consultant Jakob Wolf-Barnett discusses the foundational principles of inclusive change management.

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    21-Day Challenge for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice

    From learning about your own identities, to fostering interpersonal inclusion, to interrogating our systems of injustice — there are many powerful ways that we can engage daily in service of justice.

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    Get the book! Equity: How to Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives

    By Minal Bopaiah