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

by Randal Pinkett

In Data-Driven The Tools and Metrics You Need to Measure, Analyze, and Improve Diversity, Equity, and 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; and 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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Published March 21, 2023

Reviews

[Sheldon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pinkett outlines a detailed process of how individuals and corporations can enhance the role of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion practices in their daily business. The book outlines a multi-stage process from a practitioner's standpoint and provides a lot of support from other research to ground its claims about the structure. There are many tables that provide useful references for further reading on DEI and the role of bias in decision-making. The one critique I had is that it was written for a somewhat narrow audience. I would only recommend this to people in business school or in organizational leadership and I would warn them that the writing style is somewhat dry and at points, sounds more like a proposal than a book about ideas. That aside, I think the book was very effective in being persuasive at points and I found the writing concise and insightful. Overall, this is the type of book I think will become part of business school curriculums, but I would be surprised if it went beyond that.

[Megan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not what I was expecting. I was expecting data to prove the effectiveness of DEI. This book showed you how to collect data and analyze it.