Develop DEI strategies using Progressing Forward’s Framework

The DEI Framework looks at key steps and outlines and embeds the role of data, and strategies by investigating competencies in the workplace.

Key Areas:

• Establishing and cultivating relationships in the organization

• Creating “the why” for DEI and cultural change in the organization

• Uncovering elements to develop DEI strategies and initiatives

• Assessing the organization on DEI competencies

• Establishing and implementing reactive and proactive DEI initiatives that lead to decentering and dismantling historical and present-day barriers

• Integrating a strategic communications action plan to support the framework

• CEO/Executive Director, Senior Leaders, Board Members, and Employees DEI Coaching/Capacity Building

This framework model allows for a deeper look at inherent issues associated with the absence of acknowledging, decentering, and dismantling historical and present-day barriers, and can influence thinking when stakeholders use tools, practices, and competencies to instruct others toward valued DEI goals. Further, thinking influences culture when stakeholders generate new practices and solutions to add to the cultural group’s repertoire. Organizations cannot successfully strategize DEI without addressing the framework’s customized steps and components individually, in the program/department area, or throughout the entire organizational structure.