Organizational appetites for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I)
have never been more acute. But how can these new efforts, which often
call on old strategies, now result in better outcomes?
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This book deconstructs and rebuilds the fundamental concepts of
inclusion to reclaim their transformative potential for DE&I
practitioners and the organizations they work with.
Organizations of all types are making unprecedented investments in
unconscious bias training, diversity recruitment, and anti-racism
education. Words like belonging and equity are on the list of
aspirational outcomes for these efforts, but the pathways to those goals
are unclear because their implementation has been reactionary,
supplemental, and in too many instances cosmetic rather than systemic.
In Reconstructing Inclusion, Amri Johnson, CEO of Inclusion Wins,
explores why that reactionary stance persists and provides a framework
for designing a systematic approach that empowers all stakeholders in
these efforts--everyone--to thrive.
In deconstructing and rebuilding inclusion's most fundamental concepts,
Johnson illustrates an "Inclusion System" that outlines the conditions
critical to inclusion becoming normative--accessible, actionable,
sustainable, and positively contributing to the organizational mission.
Reconstructing Inclusion offers a guide to better understanding the
historical context of inclusion, a rethinking of the efforts
organizations are undertaking now, and an actionable, robust approach to
carrying this work into the future.
