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Beyond the Rhetoric—Centering Justice & Anti-Racism in our DEI Strategy: Moving Beyond Analyzing to Interrogating Your Data

Beyond the Rhetoric—Centering Justice & Anti-Racism in our DEI Strategy: Moving Beyond Analyzing to Interrogating Your Data

Posted by | Jun 25, 2020 | , , | 0

Analyzing data and interrogating data are not the same thing. We currently analyze diversity data, but we less often interrogate it with a justice lens. Analysis can uncover some of these inequities, but interrogation reveals the systems that perpetuate them. This week I will explore how to interrogate internal data such as applicant flow, hiring, termination (both voluntary and involuntary), promotion, and performance appraisals.   

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Beyond the Rhetoric—Centering Justice & Anti-Racism in our DEI Strategy: Our Approach

Beyond the Rhetoric—Centering Justice & Anti-Racism in our DEI Strategy: Our Approach

Posted by | Jun 18, 2020 | , , | 0

Throughout this series, we’ll be offering leaders and practitioners recommendations for actualizing racial justice within their diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy. Our intent is simple: to support our clients and readers in moving beyond the rhetoric and into sustainable action. This week, I offer our approach to embedding justice, among other social justice principles, to corporate DEI work. This involves a focus on Learning & Education, Internal Policies & Practices, and External Communications & Partnerships.  

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Beyond the Rhetoric—Centering Justice & Anti-Racism in our DEI Strategy: An Introduction

Beyond the Rhetoric—Centering Justice & Anti-Racism in our DEI Strategy: An Introduction

Posted by | Jun 11, 2020 | , , | 0

It has been interesting to experience the urgency with which organizations are scheduling listening sessions for Black employees to acknowledge their pain, and learning experiences or ‘town halls’ for leaders and “allies” on how to engage in conversations about race. The Winters Group has been bombarded with requests for “sessions” this week. The sense of urgency and palpable anxiety around the need to do something (almost anything) right now is disconcerting. 

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Beyond the Rhetoric—Centering Justice and Anti-Racism in our DEI Strategy: 10 Actions To Take Now

Beyond the Rhetoric—Centering Justice and Anti-Racism in our DEI Strategy: 10 Actions To Take Now

Posted by | Aug 27, 2020 | , , | 0

For two and a half months, we’ve used this space to discuss how to move beyond surface-level discourse and performative allyship to effect genuine change in DEI spaces. We must move beyond the rhetoric and implementing new strategies that center racial justice. Here are practical ideas and strategies, based on our series, that you can implement to move beyond the talk and actually make change through action. 

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