09/23/2024

How to Keep DE&I Efforts Going

Three association leaders offer advice for a revival

This has been a difficult year for people who work and volunteer around DE&I. State legislatures have pursued rollbacks of DE&I training for employees, and many sectors of corporate America (technology, most visibly) have either cut or eradicated their DE&I teams. And even at organizations where DE&I leadership remains intact, many say forward movement has stalled.

Those challenges are part of the motivation for a session at last month's ASAE Annual Meeting & Expo on strengthening DE&I efforts, "Conscious Inclusion Through Strategic Motivation."

"A lot of organizations start down this path of DEIA&B [diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility and belonging], and they get stalled," said one of the session leaders, Rhea Steele, CAE, chief of staff and VP of strategy and governance at the School Nutrition Association. "So, we wanted to focus on the motivations that will help them move forward."

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