Inclusive Culture Strategy Toolkit

Use the tools gathered here to reflect on and shift our interactions towards fostering equity and inclusion in your life, both inside of and outside of work.

An introduction to DEIB and the business case for DEIB, as well as tools to apply for increasing equity, inclusion, and belonging within organizational cultures and beyond.

Use this handout to characterize your organization or team culture. This activity works best when done as a team.

To help you to reflect on and assess your own interactions and miscommunications you can use the self-reflection tool called PLAN.

This tool on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is intended to help diversity professionals measure the impact of their DEI initiatives, as well as measure progress over time.

Use this tool to help you think about what kind of data you need to develop and strengthen your DEIB strategies.

Learn the answers to common questions about transgender allyship.

Learn of the variety of efforts underway to challenge key aspects of Project 2025 and how you can support them.

A link to DEIB annual reports from companies that have been recognized for their DEIB strategies and initiatives.

Resources to help explain, challenge, and navigate anti-DEI executive orders and related policies.

Learn the four principles that can help you create any process, whether application review, hiring, evaluation, performance review, more fair.

Learn about the various kinds of diversity councils and best practices for establishing and running one.

Learn five major ways you can diversify the applicant pool with recruitment strategies.

Learn how you can reviewing applications’ diversity statements, cover letters, and other narratives more fairly.

Although you have likely heard the word cisgender used, do you know what it means??

You have likely heard the words misogyny and transmisogyny used before but do you know what they mean?

Although you have likely heard the word diversity used, what does it really mean??

Listen to Missy Maceyko explain the 2025 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, U.S. v Skrmetti, a landmark decision affecting transgender rights.

Although you have likely heard the words equity and equality used, do you know what they mean??

Although you have likely heard the word culture used, do you know what it means??

Although you have likely heard the word culture used, do you know what it means??

Although you have likely heard the word inclusion used, do you know what it means??

Have you heard the term participant observation before?

You have likely heard the words sex and gender used interchangeably before, but they are actually distinctive terms with their own meanings.

Are you familiar the term enculturation? Do you know what it means?

You have likely heard the term Ramadan before. Do you know what it means?

Use this tool to plan your next DEIB event.

Learn how to advocate for DEI initiatives in the face of anti-DEI rhetoric.

Use this checklist to brainstorm short and long-term goals.

Learn about how artificial intelligence is embedded with bias and strategies on how to mitigate them.

Learn how to advocate for inclusive and equitable product design.

Explore how cultural expectations can lead to miscommunication.

Explore how expectations of politeness show up in the workplace.

Learn about how expectations of politeness intersect with expectations for professionalism and how these reflect specific cultural norms.

Learn about what politeness is, how it is shaped by culture, and how it differs across cultures.

Watch this webinar hosted by the American Anthropological Association. Willing Observers discuss President Trump’s anti-DEI executive orders and what they mean for higher-ed and for-profit organizations.

Watch a short webinar about how Willing Observers approaches cultural change in organizations.

Black History Month offers a time to focus on the central role that Black and African Americans have played within the U.S.-a tradition started in 1915 by Carter G. Woodson, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery.

Over the years, corporations and institutions have increasingly positioned themselves as allies, showing support for the LGBTQ+ community and Pride by selling merchandise and making public statements.

Independence Day is a holiday celebrating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4th, 1776.

Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.

Designed to commemorate the culture, traditions, arts, achievements, ways and concepts of living of the Indigenous peoples of America, Native American History Month is celebrated every November.

The phrases "happy holidays" and "seasons greetings" both help embrace cultural and religious diversity while still communicating the holiday spirit.

The first clause in the Bill of Rights, otherwise known as the Establishment Clause, was intended to grant citizens religious freedom and prevent the U.S. government from favoring one religious view over another, and from favoring religion over non-religion.

The First Thanksgiving is often portrayed as a friendly harvest festival where Pilgrims and generic, nameless "Indians" gathered to eat and give thanks.