Leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Your learning journey

Module 1: Assessing your old DEI strategy: what is Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?

• Assess your organisation’s current DEI strategy to identify gaps and opportunities
• Identify the essential elements of a DEI strategy for your organisation
• Examine causes of discrimination, including individual and organisational factors.

Module 2: Designing your new DEI strategy: what are the best practices to diversify your workforce?

• Develop strategies to recruit and retain a diverse workforce in your organisation
• Propose diversity priorities to promote engagement, contact, accountability, and transparency within your own organisation
• Overcome micro-scale and macro-scale challenges and opportunities for diversity and inclusion within your organisation.

Module 3: Tracking your new DEI strategy: how to best use data to meet your goals?

• Examine the role of data in planning and supporting DEI initiatives
• Identify bias-free ways to collect and interpret diversity-related data
• Propose data collection strategies and measures to evaluate the effectiveness of DEI initiatives within your organisation.

Module 4: Leading your new DEI strategy: how to coordinate your initiatives and your people?

• Avoid common pitfalls to help ensure the success of diversity initiatives
• Reflect upon the successes and failures of organisations to glean “lessons learned”
• Employ effective leadership and communication strategies to articulate the business case for DEI within your organisation.

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• Identify the main barriers to increasing diversity in your organisation
• Develop a robust understanding of the individual and organisational factors that lead to discrimination
• Learn how to design and implement the most effective DEI policies and initiatives
• Explore how to turn DEI into a strategic priority in your company by harnessing data, metrics, leadership and communication tools
• Understand how to build a diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace.
• On completion of the programme, participants will be awarded a digital certificate of completion by Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education.

This programme counts towards the Cambridge Judge Business School General Management Certificate of Achievement. On completing the GMCA you will be eligible to become an associate member of Cambridge Judge Business School’s global network of graduates and business-focused University of Cambridge alumni, faculty and staff.