The trainings haven’t worked — DEI programs are ready for 2.0
By: Laura Close
Tags: Diversity, Diversity And Inclusion, HR, Hrtech, Diversity In Tech

At [Included.] DEI outcomes matter. We are here to see measurable increases in representation of diverse identities in the professional workforce, and at all levels of leadership.

What that means is that at [Included.] no one particular DEI practice is sacred. We’d rather measure, test, and iterate each effort then keep doing the same things and keep getting the same results.

We are a team of immigrants, women, raised working class people, people of color (plus more) and we are simply passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We are also passionate about making sure that your DEI program is successful at scale. In fact it’s what we’re great at.

In addition to our diverse identities, we are a team of established entrepreneurs, engineers, product leaders, and DEI experts. We’ve come together to do what we do best — deliver results — for DEI programs.

System upgrade required…

Diversity trainings have a lot to offer. In fact not only have we attended anti-bias and diversity trainings, we’ve led them.

While we as founders personally agree with the content in the trainings, research shows time and again that the way DEI industry approaches training just isn’t working.

The other way you can tell that trainings and related tried and true methods for DEI programs aren’t working is simply by looking at the weak results for:

Women

BIPOC professionals

Aging professionals

Diverse-ability professionals

Professionals from varied educational backgrounds

When we looked through an agile, product development lens (measure, test, and iterate) it just seemed that given the amount of trainings and the known slate of related DEI efforts (such as listening sessions, annual surveys, and employee resource group creation) which companies have adopted over the past few decades — we should have seen better results by now.

Easy diversity metrics for your DEI program

DEI programs that succeed follow data driven decision making. But not all HR and DEI program leaders are data experts.

That’s where we come in.

[Included.] collects, displays, and interprets your diversity metrics across multiple categories. We help DEI program owners to quickly and painlessly set goals and monitor results.

Data is the language your peer leaders across all business units use, and with good reason. Data is easy to translate and monitor from one area of the business to the other. DEI programs are enormously important.

We are here to support you to successfully participate and perform in the data conversation.

If your employees can’t find your program it doesn’t exist

Your time is valuable. The work that you put into growing your company’s DEI effort is worth showcasing.

Frankly employees are curious about DEI and want to learn more about goals and various initiatives in place designed to help them.

At [Included.] we believe that each company’s DEI program should be easy to discover and demonstrate value to the entire workforce.

We created [Included.] to allow employees to connect to their company’s one unified DEI program, a hub that demonstrates your company’s vision, goals, metrics, and monitor/track progress.

Engagement begins with discoverability.

DEI programs deserve to benefit from the strengths of product design

[Included.] embraces the customer-centric, design principles that have delivered the world some of our most beloved, user friendly products from the iPhone to Tesla.

We love beautiful, easy to use software and we are passionate about enabling DEI program leaders to succeed.

The solution for us was obvious: bring the intelligent design principles known for delivering joy — to the people doing the most important work we know of:

DEI program leaders.

We can’t wait to share [Included.] with you and unlock your DEI program results.

To learn more about our stealth product [Included.] and how to streamline and scale your company’s DEI effort visit us at Included.ai