Since the Awake to Woke to Work®: Building a Race Equity Culture™ publication was released in 2018, Equity In The Center® stakeholders have asked for a tool to assess where organizations are on the Race Equity Cycle®. The Race Equity Cycle Pulse Check™ is designed to do so and provide recommendations on next steps and tools to move work toward the next phase!

Before beginning this work, it’s important to start with a clear and shared understanding of a Race Equity Culture™ and the nature of the work required to create and sustain it. A Race Equity Culture is one that is focused on proactively counteracting race inequities inside and outside of an organization. It requires an adaptive and transformational approach that impacts behaviors and mindsets as well as practices, programs, and processes.

The work of building a Race Equity Culture is focused on transforming organizational culture, practice and process to narrow (and eventually eliminate) race-based disparities in measurable outcomes (composition, compensation, promotion, retention, staff engagement, staff performance, et al.). As such, before taking the Pulse Check we strongly recommend that your team be familiar with our Awake to Woke to Work®: Building a Race Equity Culture™ publication as the Pulse Check was created to function as its companion.