Leading Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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EMBEDDING CHANGE: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ECOSYSTEMS

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

—RUSSELL L. ACKOFF, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

TO SUSTAIN AN INCLUSIVE CULTURE, it is not enough to implement a wide approach through global governance, and a deep approach with allies and champions. For enduring change, DEI has to inform all systems and processes—internal and external. It cannot be a series of discrete activities operating in isolation, because organizations are comprised of dynamic, interconnected systems internally and inextricably connected to the external environment. The internal and external stakeholders in this ecosystem must ...