Dion serves as the the inaugural equity, inclusion, and belonging strategy lead at Bravely, supporting organizations to foster cultures centered on building trust and addressing barriers for marginalized employees to thrive in the workplace. He is always looking for partners, mentors, and developmental opportunities to strengthen our collective work to address systemic oppression.
As companies around the world rush to implement diversity and inclusion programmes, the burden to launch these initiatives are unduly falling on employees of colour.
Effectiveness in diversity, equity and inclusion is similar to effectiveness in most organisational change initiatives or strategy – the key difference lies in implementation, through which you are able to gauge the sense of leadership and organisational commitment. The programmes that have been most successful are those that create processes that make everyone accountable for implementing the work; balance the programme work and responsibility with an employee’s main role; and compensate or recognise the work for advancement opportunities.