Data-Driven DEI

STEP 1DEI Inventory for Organizations—Seek Understanding

Representation matters.

Meet people where they are.

Data‐Driven DEI—Step 1: DEI Inventory

A DEI inventory for organizations—an organizational DEI assessment—is like a personal DEI assessment in collecting data from your organization and producing data for your organization, typically in the form a profile or report summarizing insights, findings, and/or recommendations to improve organizational DEI. It also helps establish a baseline or a starting point, based on data, that helps you understand where you are organizationally, determine where you want to go, and the means to gauge progress along the way (i.e., to know if and how much progress you have made, you must first know where you started). Once again, as you will see in our final Step 5: DEI Impact, it is often by readministering the same organizational DEI assessment you identify here in Step 1: DEI Inventory that you evaluate results. You will also see that the data you report will only be as good the data you collect.

Organizational DEI Assessment Framework

Per BCT's DEI Assessment Framework: The 4 P's of People, Practices, Policies, and Performance shown in Figure 0.5, Figure 1.18 shows the Organizational DEI Assessment Framework we employ at BCT. It is essentially a focused subset of the Dimensions of Organizational Transformation, or more specifically, ...