Identifying And Overcoming 4 Common Barriers To DEI

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Identifying And Overcoming 4 Common Barriers To DEI

Flashy campaigns and DEI training don’t equate to behavior, commitment and policy adjustment that is needed to create change. By Angela R. Howard

• While diversity is an important outcome of DEI work, diversity without creating an inclusive culture with the integration of equitable practices is a wasted opportunity.?
• Initiatives often have a focus on awareness, such as unconscious bias training, rather than a comprehensive evaluation of structures and policies that may be causing disparate impact on certain members of the employee population.?
• The more organizations can learn about their people and their experiences and differences, the more that can be done to ensure diversity of lived experiences is present and to ensure that the culture is one of inclusion.??

I recently had the opportunity?to sit down with LaTonya Wilkins, an inclusive leadership expert, as well as the CEO of Change Coaches and the author of?Leading Below the Surface.?We had an engaging discussion about the current state of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from a culture and leadership perspective and spoke about four specific barriers we are seeing.?

Here are the four barriers, and how to navigate each one within organizations — even amidst the?social justice and DEI backlash?we’re experiencing.??

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