Many Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategies and plans fail

There are a few key reasons why DEI strategies fail (see image below).

Title: Many DEI strategies and plans fail because they don’t understand: First orange circle with a book inside: that most DEI talks are abstract, not concrete. Second orange circle with three gears inside: twhat systemic discrimination is. Third orange circle with two semi-circular arrows pointing anti-clockwise inside: that systemic and subtle discrimination accumulates over time. Fourth orange circle with three concentric circles overlapping like a Venn Diagram inside: what intersectionality really means. Fifth orange circle with two hands doing a handshake inside: that opportunity and sharing power are the antidotes to discrimination.
Image showing the five things many DEI strategies and plans don’t understand. Want to share this? Use DOI: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10929110

Here are just a few examples of how Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategies and plans fail:

  1. Scholars to study why $365M DEI investment into STEM failed to diversify engineering
  2. Football Association Diversity Code: Clubs collectively fail to meet any recruitment targets
  3. The Failure of the DEI-Industrial Complex
  4. Why Do Nonprofits Struggle with Diversity?
  5. Unconscious Bias Training Doesn’t Work
  6. Liberty University broke safety laws for years, government asserts
  7. STEM diversity blockers need strategic fix: review
  8. Putting diversity to work: An empirical analysis of how change efforts targeting organizational inequality failed
  9. Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business
  10. Most Australian workplaces are failing to achieve diversity: study

To find more, you can search “fail” in the Not the Only One website.

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