How has DEI positively impacting your company or organization?

Good morning everyone👋 Has anyone here been directly (or indirectly) involved in the procurement process for your company’s HR performance management system?

Realizing how far I've come today...

A peer asked me to speak on a panel of professional women regarding our journey to building self confidence 🥰🥰

10 years ago I would have been one of the nervou… more

Hey DEI fishies! How are you all supporting your Jewish employees as the high holidays roll in?

Are there any other bowls on here you’d recommend following for DEI?

Im working on getting my org to think more tangibly about our DEI goals. What first goals have you set that have helped you gain traction for DEI?

DEI tip of the week in comments! 💡
This week's topic is: Recognizing Hispanic Heritage Month in the US

As always, I appreciate your comments and feedback! 🥰

Does sustainability have a place in an organizations DEI efforts?

What are you doing to continue learning in DEI?

Are there any DEI challenges you are experiencing using zoom? We’re always looking for customer feedback!

Would you say that startups, medium sized companies, or big corporations are more favorable in terms of DEI?

What do you do to preserve your mental health with the news constantly bringing only sadness!

Anyone else struggling with a “bro culture” team? I feel like most of the women play into it and I have a hard time feeling authentic at work

I'm looking for some new podcasts! Any DEI related recommendations? I like story telling and hearing about others perspectives.
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Hello, fellow DEI professionals and SME's. If you had to select a topic or trend to talk about in DEIB what would it be? What do you think people are interested in hearing?

What kind of leadership trainings or workshops do you all host? I host 50 ways to fight bias but it's primarily focused on gender bias. Wanting to expand into understanding/addressing racial bias

I have provided feedback to my coworker on how his subtle sexist behaviour affected me. As a result, we have had a mediation session. We have achieved an agreement, but I am having second thoughts.

He admitted tha… more

Any DEI professionals in here who WFH? Do you feel like your more/less effective in office?

Have you heard of the phenomenon of companies having interviews that involve a psychologist? I think this is actually not a terrible idea for determining if people will be bringing in biases, values, … more

Anyone thinking of going to the Diversity & Leadership Conference in Dallas?

How do you manage chat groups at your work place? I want to prevent our ERGs from straying into negativity

Do you see DEI having a rebound in the near future, where it's more of a public and media-driven concern that motivates companies to act?

Tip of the week in comments! 💡
The subject this week is "Understanding the cultural iceberg"

Any tips for surviving an erratic CEO who doesn’t care about DEI

Im being asked to start a high level DEI council at my org and I’m struggling to decide how to structure it, anyone stood one of these up before?

Somehow I ended up in a department where none - including leadership - ever heard of, or understand notions of subtle sexism, microaggression or allyship. How common is this? Or am I “lucky”?

I finally got my company to put together a Diversity and Inclusion committee and I've been assigned as Chair. We decided to start slow with monthly post /article on our Intranet.
October will be t… more

I had a recent loss in my family. I took time for bereavement but am back to work now. I know people have good intentions when they say "I'm sorry for your loss" at work but it's making me… more

Hi all, I'm wanting to create a social media channel (maybe on tiktok and instagram) to talk about DEI that attracts general professionals, and not just people that work in the field. Any ideas on… more

How much do you see ageism and forced retirement? Anything we can actively do to address/prevent it? I've heard a few stories recently of people who have been edged out, and I know this was a thin… more

Hey y’all - are your orgs doing anything to acknowledge the Jacksonville shooting?

Do you ever talk to kids about your work? How do you describe it?

I’m working on designing some 10 minute quick bite, trainings for an organization, what do you think would be of the most value to a tech company that is trying to increase DEI competency across-the-b… more

How is your DEI team structured? Do you report directly into the CEO, head of people, or somewhere else in the organization? compared to the size of your overall organization how big is your DEI team?