Race Equity Cycle®
Tool for Senior Leaders
Learn about which stage of the Race Equity Cycle® your senior leadership are on and receive support and guidance as you explore ways to move to the next stage.
Moving Towards Work
Our original research identified seven levers — strategic elements of an organization that, when leveraged, build momentum towards a Race Equity Culture™ in each stage of and throughout the Race Equity Cycle®.
Drawing on five years of research and insights gained from organizations implementing the Awake to Woke To Work® framework, this tool explores the strategies and actions comprising the Senior Leaders lever of the Race Equity Cycle® and provides coaching and community support options to help your organization move forward.
Who needs this tool?
Creating a Race Equity Culture™ goes beyond DEI. It demands deep, systemic change that permeates the entire organization. Most often, this type of change is heavily influenced by senior leaders.
As a senior leader, you may feel caught between the aspiration to do this critical work, and the knowledge and skills required to lead your equity work.
That’s exactly why we created Moving Towards Work: Senior Leaders for you.
How does this tool work?
Step 1: Take the Assessment
We’ve developed a 23-point assessment that analyzes the actions you’re currently taking to build a Race Equity Culture™. This assessment provides a structured approach to identify where your senior leadership team currently is on the Race Equity Cycle®.
The second half of the assessment provides actionable recommendations to make measurable progress in advancing a Race Equity Culture™. Recommendations are broken into three categories – Personal Beliefs and Behaviors, Policies and Process, and Data – with multiple recommendations within each category.
Step 2: Work Through the Assessment in Community
The purpose of the assessment is to begin needed dialogue that identifies action steps for senior leadership to build a Race Equity Culture™ within the organization. Simply completing the assessment does not move your organization towards a Race Equity Culture™, but taking action on it does.
Five years of insights gained from organizations implementing the Awake to Woke to Work® framework suggest that senior leaders are most successful at this work when they have support for implementation.
There are two ways for you to get this support for implementation.
Assessment + Coaching
$4,750
Registration for Assessment + Coaching is limited.
Assessment + Community of Practice
$9,950
Two 60-minute coaching sessions with the Community of Practice (CoP) facilitator, Ericka Hines
An invitation to our CoP that meets over a period of 6 months throughout 2024 to connect, learn from and build with each other, and identify the needed actions and support to continue your race equity work
The CoP will meet on the following dates from 2 pm – 4 pm ET (1 pm CT, 12 pm MT, 11 am PT):
- May 21, 2024
- June 18, 2024
- July 10, 2024
- September 19, 2024
- October 15, 2024
- November 12, 2024
If you’re interested in the CoP, but unable to attend on the dates listed, email us with info on your availability.
Applications will be accepted until May 7, 2024.
Registration for Assessment + Community of Practice is capped at 10 organizations.
Are you a Consultant looking to implement this with a client?
The Moving Towards Work: Senior Leaders assessment is an outstanding tool to deepen capacity to build a Race Equity Culture™ through your consulting engagements. Let us know you’re interested, and we’ll send next steps for using this tool with clients.
Meet Your Coaches
Niki Jagpal (she/her)
EIC Executive Vice President
“Building a Race Equity Culture™ requires intention and commitment: coaching allows me to help senior leaders transform their vision for race equity into action while also strengthening their individual capacity to lead the work.”
Kerrien Suarez (she/her)
EIC President & CEO
“EIC hears consistently that senior leaders need support for them to build a Race Equity Culture™. Coaching senior leaders to model a responsibility to speak about race, white dominant culture, oppression, and structural racism both inside and outside the organization is essential.”
Kerrien Suarez (she/her)
EIC President & CEO
“EIC hears consistently that senior leaders need support for them to build a Race Equity Culture™. Coaching senior leaders to model a responsibility to speak about race, white dominant culture, oppression, and structural racism both inside and outside the organization is essential.”
Meet Your Community
of Practice Guide
Ericka Hines (she/her)
EIC Managing Director
“One of the most impactful ways for senior leaders to feel supported in their roles, especially in these uncertain times, is by learning from peers, reflecting on past efforts and building relationships across organizations working to support equity. This community of practice is an opportunity for exactly that – a space to learn about and from each other with intentional strategies to move forward, while also fostering longer-term relationships between organizations.”
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