3 steps to start your journey as an ally in communications

The grace period between having made your social injustice statements and when you must report meaningful diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) progress is expiring.

If your team hasn’t yet had necessary group discussions, listening sessions, conversations with employee resource groups, inclusion councils and talked out loud about a meaningful action plan that is informed and approved by those who benefit most from the changes, you’re running out of time.

Some of us and our leaders are in freeze mode without knowing what to do or what to say and are scared to say anything (read “What If I Say the Wrong Thing?“ by Vernā Myers). Some are in flight and laying low in hopes everything will just go back to normal. (It won’t; it can’t.) Some are pushing back against the tide of equality and equity, and are at a crossroads of evolving or being left behind.