Data-Driven Dei: The Tools and Metrics You Need to Measure, Analyze, and Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Hardcover

by Randal Pinkett (Author)

A practical blueprint for successful, measurable, and impactful DEI initiatives

In Data-Driven DEI: The Tools and Metrics You Need to Measure, Analyze, and Improve Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Dr. Randal Pinkett, a renowned diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) thought leader delivers a practical and evidence-based blueprint to achieving lasting impact with your DEI initiatives. Dr. Pinkett has created a simple, step-by-step process to assess the current state of your DEI, analyze that data to create a personal and organizational action plan, and implement data-driven, science-based, and technology-enabled interventions for greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. The book provides:

• Tools and instruments to assess your personal preferences and competencies as well as your organizational culture, climate, policies, and practices
• Strategies and proven practices to mitigate bias, improve decision-making, foster innovation, and expand thinking preferences, cultural competence, inclusive leadership, allyship and more
• A library of measures, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to gauge progress, evaluate results and demonstrate impact

An indispensable resource for individual contributors, managers, executives, founders, entrepreneurs, and other business leaders, Data-Driven DEI deserves a place on the bookshelf of any professional seeking to have a real-world impact that delivers personal and organizational results.

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A HANDS-ON ROADMAP TO TRANSFORMING YOUR DEI JOURNEY

Data-Driven DEI: The Tools and Metrics You Need to Measure, Analyze, and Improve Diversity, Equity & Inclusion delivers a practical and research-based playbook to make your DEI initiatives impactful and successful. Dr. Randal Pinkett has created a straightforward, step-by-step process that uses data to perform a personal and organizational assessment and culminates with a customized action plan for you and your company.

You'll learn how to implement data-driven, science-based, and technology-enabled interventions and innovations that accelerate your DEI efforts. You'll also discover instruments and tools to uncover and expand your personal preferences and competencies, as well as evaluate and improve your organization's culture, climate, policies, and practices.

Dr. Pinkett offers proven strategies to mitigate your biases and enhance your decision-making, and best practices for your company to strengthen your belonging and promote teamwork. The author also provides a library of measures, metrics, and KPIs to gauge your progress and evaluate your results along with examples of DEI scorecards and dashboards.

A must-have resource not only for DEI champions and leaders, but also for anyone seeking personal and organizational growth, including individual contributors, managers, allies, executives, founders, entrepreneurs, and other business professionals. Data-Driven DEI is the actionable and realistic blueprint for DEI transformation you've been looking for.

For more information, visit: www.datadrivendei.com

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Praise for DATA-DRIVEN DEI

"What distinguishes Data-Driven DEI from other diversity, equity and inclusion books is its unique focus on the role of technology, data and innovation for people and organizations seeking lasting transformation and change."
--NENE MOLEFI, JULIE O'MARA, and ALAN RICHTER, PhD, authors, along with 112 Expert Panelists around the world, of the free Global, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmarks (GDEIB) published by The Centre for Global Inclusion, www.centreforglobalinclusion.org

"Data-Driven DEI is both timely and timeless. Dr. Pinkett has outlined a simple, yet powerful five-step approach--powered by research, data, and science--that delivers real-world results for any professional at any level and for any organization."
--JANET B. REID, PhD, and VINCENT R. BROWN, co-authors of Intrinsic Inclusion: Rebooting Your Biased Brain

"At last, a one-stop resource to find the tools, technologies, metrics and measures to ensure that your DEI efforts are making a difference. Data-Driven DEI should be required reading for anyone looking to accelerate their personal or organizational DEI journey."
--ANN HERRMANN-NEHDI, Chief Thought Leader and Chair of the Board, and KARIM NEHDI, Chief Executive Officer, Herrmann Global

"The simple, five-step process found in Data-Driven DEI represents a complete roadmap for anyone--from people to organizations--to embark upon a learning journey that achieves greater diversity, equity, and inclusiveness. This book could not have come at a better time."
--ROBERT O. BRINKERHOFF and EDWARD BOON, co-authors of Improving Performance Through Learning: A Practical Guide for Designing High Performance Learning Journeys

"Data-Driven DEI will usher in an entirely new paradigm for how data, science and technology marry personal, cultural and organizational transformation to deliver measurable results and impact."
--PETER YORK, Principal and Chief Data Scientist, BCT Partners and co-author of Measuring Results and Impact in the Age of Big Data

"A must-read for people and organizations across the globe seeking the latest technologies and innovations to accelerate their diversity, equity, and inclusion work today, while understanding how the future landscape can amplify their efforts tomorrow. Thank you Dr. Pinkett."
--JOHN WANG, visionary and conveyor of New Majority: The Opportunity for Building Allyship

Author Biography

RANDAL PINKETT, PHD, MBA, is an entrepreneur, innovator, speaker, author, media personality, and scholar. He is a diversity, equity, and inclusion expert who is leading the way in business, technology, data, and equity for all. Dr. Pinkett is the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of BCT Partners, a research, training, consulting, technology, and data analytics firm that offers a full range of DEI services and solutions. BCT's mission is to harness the power of diversity, insights, and innovation to transform lives, accelerate equity, and create lasting change. BCT is a global leader in helping people and organizations make better decisions, improve outcomes, and amplify their impact toward a more equitable society. While Dr. Pinkett has been recognized as EY Entrepreneur of the Year, BCT has been recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Management Consulting Firms, and by Manage HR Magazine as a Top 10 Company for Diversity & Inclusion. BCT is also on the Black Enterprise BE100s list of the nation's largest African American-owned businesses and the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America.