DEI Deconstructed

Conclusion

Despite the plethora of rhetoric critiquing everyone’s favorite DEI punching bags (one-off unconscious bias trainings, performative diversity, and empty promises, oh my!), there have historically been few cohesive guides to the end-to-end achievement of DEI in an organizational setting that strike a balance between skepticism and idealism. And it’s true—DEI is far from a fully known quantity. There’s much we don’t know about how to successfully make lasting organizational change in every setting; the full and long-term implications of the (as of early 2022) ongoing COVID-19 pandemic amid global social reckonings on race, gender, disability, sexuality, and social inequity in general; and the success rate of the many DEI initiatives ...