Navigate a Path Forward in the DEI Landscape
Overcome resistance and misconceptions to foster meaningful change.
- Despite the significant organizational benefits of DEI, such as improved financial performance, retention, and inclusion, resistance to DEI is on the rise.
- DEI resistance poses a threat to progress, and DEI leaders are challenged to create a safe space for dialogue while sustaining progress toward DEI goals.
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Our Advice
Critical Insight
DEI leaders face no shortage of challenges, misconceptions, and resistance on the path to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable organization. Amid adversity, DEI leaders can courageously sustain progress by focusing on the people most impacted by DEI challenges to achieve an inclusive future for all.
Impact and Result
Understanding various sources of resistance allows development of strategies to overcome resistance to organizational DEI.
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Get the help you need in this 1-phase advisory process. You'll receive 3 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
- Call 1: Discuss the importance of DEI in the current landscape.
- Call 2: Review common types of resistance to DEI and including how they show up in the workplace.
- Call 3: Outline next steps for the organization’s DEI journey to navigate through resistance and make meaningful change happen.
Contributors
Thomas Sasso, Assistant Professor, University of Guelph
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