- External research segmented website
- Independent report into EDI/DEIA with recommendations
- Establish a plan to improve the different aspects of EDI/DEIA e.g. Gender Equality Plan to improve gender equality and representation
- Host a central EDI/DEIA calendar of events and how people can get involved
- EDI/DEIA focused communications through newsletters, Yammer, Teams etc.
- Hold a ‘Diversity month’ and run a number of events throughout the month
- Go beyond just Diversity Month and continue the calendar of events throughout the year
- Join and represent your organization at EDI/DEIA committees/working groups and events
- Look at all groups represented, rather than just focusing on what is being talked about in the news
- Lunches with foods from different cultures, and coffee chats to talk about EDI/DEIA key topics
- Send out surveys, present the findings, and be transparent in actioning the results, so people feel confident they are being listened to
- Share existing industry toolkits or create new ones and share with the industry e.g. anti-racism, improved communication, increased accessibility
- Slack channel sharing experiences and forming discussion
- Charitable donation to help support progression
- Source inclusive language guide and add as a best practice resource and EDI/DEIA web page
- Review how you ask your staff to identify e.g. Self-ID
- Be supportive to all groups and individuals e.g. allyship
- Review and look at existing panels and groups to ensure they are as diverse as they can be across a number of groups e.g. “Old white guy” panels
- Talk about EDI/DEIA initiatives that fail and share with each other
- Disseminating examples of white papers, case studies, best practices through listservs etc
- Wellness Days to encourage acceptance and openness around our mental health
Get involved
Please submit your feedback and lessons learned to admin@alpsp.org, so we can continue helping the industry progress.