DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right

DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right

by Lily Zheng
DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right

DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right

by Lily Zheng

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Overview

The definitive comprehensive and foundational text for critically analyzing and applying actionable DEI techniques and strategies, written by one of LinkedIn’s most popular experts on DEI.

The importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace cannot be understated. But when half-baked and under-developed strategies are implemented, they often do more harm than good, leading the very constituents they aim to support to dismiss DEI entirely.

DEI Deconstructed analyzes how current methods and “best practices” leave marginalized people feeling frustrated and unconvinced of their leaders’ sincerity, and offers a roadmap that bridges the neatness of theory with the messiness of practice. Through embracing a pragmatic DEI approach drawing from cutting-edge research on organizational change, evidence-based practices, and incisive insights from a DEI strategist with experience working from the top-down and bottom-up alike, stakeholders at every level of an organization can become effective DEI changemakers. Nothing less than this is required to scale DEI from interpersonal teeth-pulling to true systemic change.

By utilizing an outcome-oriented understanding of DEI, along with a comprehensive foundation of actionable techniques, this no-nonsense guide will lay out the path for anyone with any background to becoming a more effective DEI practitioner, ally, and leader.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781523002771
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication date: 11/08/2022
Pages: 360
Sales rank: 99,025
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Lily Zheng (they/them) is a sought-after diversity, equity, and inclusion speaker, strategist, and organizational consultant who specializes in hands-on systemic change to turn positive intentions into positive outcomes for workplaces and everyone in them. A dedicated changemaker and advocate named a Forbes D&I Trailblazer and LinkedIn Top Voice in Racial Equity, Lily and their work have been featured by the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, and NPR.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction 1

Part 1 Foundation

1 Intentions Aren't Enough 13

2 DEI Building Blocks 35

3 To What End? 62

4 Real Change 85

Part 2 Pillars

5 Knowing, Using, Ceding Power 111

6 Identity and Difference 147

7 Change-Maker: Everyone 170

8 Achieving DEI 200

Part 3 Toolbox

9 Expanding Your Repertoire 237

Conclusion 271

Resources 289

Reading List 289

Interactive Resources 293

Notes 299

Acknowledgments 329

Index 331

About the Author 341

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