Impact Beyond the Diversity Headlines

While people have made significant progress in courtrooms and boardrooms to protect and provide all people with equal opportunity, significant structural challenges remain for a large and growing number of people in achieving true
equality in corporate America. This is especially true of the Technology industry.

There are four drivers of institutional barriers – biased hiring processes inhibiting diversity; unfair opportunities and recognition inhibiting equity; exclusionary norms and rituals inhibiting inclusion; psychologically unsafe workplaces inhibiting belonging.

This ebook lays out our perspective on how Technology companies continue to perpetuate institutional barriers in ways unique to this industry and provides a call to action consisting of twelve steps to drive tangible change as companies travel the path from marginalization and exclusion to belonging.

Taken together, these twelve steps can go a long way towards creating
workplaces, organizations and industries that engender a feeling of true belonging among all people.

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