DEI in your organisation
Analyse the current state of DEI in your organisation (demographics, top positions, feelings) and explore the avenues of improvement from your viewpoint.
Develop a holistic DEI mindset — and use it to build your strategy
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21 November 2023
6 weeks, online
4–6 hours per week
£1,700
The concepts of diversity, equity and inclusion aren't new, but recent shifts in culture have brought them to the forefront and shown how far we still have to go. It’s up to organisations to pick up the baton and continue the progress—not only because Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) ultimately benefits their bottom line but also because consumers now expect increased levels of social responsibility as the norm. This six-week programme will help you understand the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace and gain actionable insights. At the end of the programme, you’ll put the knowledge and tools you’ve acquired to work in a capstone project: creating a DEI strategy for your own organisation.
Companies with greater gender diversity are 15% more likely to show higher financials compared to their respective national industry medians, according to McKinsey and Co.
Organisations in the top quartile for ethnic/cultural diversity on executive teams were 33% more likely to have industry-leading profitability, according to McKinsey and Co.
The majority (67%) of active and passive job seekers say that when evaluating organisations and job offers, it is important to them that the organisation has a diverse workforce, according to Glassdoor.
Gain a solid understanding of diversity, from the different types of diversity and why diversity matters to related opportunities and obstacles as well as successes and failures.
Explore cognitive and behavioural biases, including five major organisational practices that hinder diversity and three myths that stand in its way.
Learn the essentials of crafting inclusive job ads and unbiased interview protocols, and get a comprehensive look at the evaluation process, including compensation, promotion and performance reviews.
Take a deeper dive into data, with a focus on bias-free assessments, evaluating DEI in your organisation and using data for personnel decisions.
On their own, diversity trainings are insufficient to effect meaningful organisational change. Explore complementary strategies including engagement, contact, focus, accountability and transparency.
Discover how to design, communicate and implement DEI strategy while avoiding resistance from the majority (and unintended negative consequences) and building allyship.
Gain a solid understanding of diversity, from the different types of diversity and why diversity matters to related opportunities and obstacles as well as successes and failures.
Take a deeper dive into data, with a focus on bias-free assessments, evaluating DEI in your organisation and using data for personnel decisions.
Explore cognitive and behavioural biases, including five major organisational practices that hinder diversity and three myths that stand in its way.
On their own, diversity trainings are insufficient to effect meaningful organisational change. Explore complementary strategies including engagement, contact, focus, accountability and transparency.
Learn the essentials of crafting inclusive job ads and unbiased interview protocols, and get a comprehensive look at the evaluation process, including compensation, promotion and performance reviews.
Discover how to design, communicate and implement DEI strategy while avoiding resistance from the majority (and unintended negative consequences) and building allyship.
Each week’s assignments will contribute to the final capstone project: creating a DEI strategy for implementation in your organisation.
Analyse the current state of DEI in your organisation (demographics, top positions, feelings) and explore the avenues of improvement from your viewpoint.
Develop a detailed analysis of the primary barriers to increasing diversity in your current organisation, including both individual and organisational barriers.
Conduct a thorough analysis of your organisation's processes in terms of attraction, recruitment and promotion, and explore potential areas for improvement.
Describe precisely how your organisation tracks DEI, including the data collected, the processes employed, and how it can be improved.
Describe the current design and implementation of DEI initiatives within your organisation and what you plan to change.
Propose a diversity strategy that reflects your organisation’s needs and context.
The programme features a blend of case studies and other relevant industry examples that provide opportunities to analyse different scenarios and companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, HubSpot, Goldman Sachs, etc., gives you a chance to reflect on the various decisions and outcomes. Examples include:
Explore the industry-wide lack of employee diversity in the technology sector and Yelp’s decision to take a leadership position in identifying strategies to increase diversity.
Study Royal Dutch Shell’s role as early player in implementing diversity and inclusion policies in the 1990s, the firm’s step backward in the face of economic woes in 2009, and the subsequent decision regarding whether to continue to champion global diversity and inclusion while restructuring its business and reducing its managerial workforce.
Discover how the tech giant solved a 'parent gap' problem its data identified, where young mothers were twice as likely to quit as other employees, by implementing an enhanced maternity and paternity leave plan.
Learn how the SAT exam, first introduced in the U.S. in 1926 to create a meritocratic screening device, has been revised in recent years to level the playing field between risk takers and risk avoiders and promote diversity.
Video lectures
6 Live webinars with Cambridge Judge faculty
Capstone project
Dedicated programme team support
Live office hours
LIONEL PAOLELLA
PATRIZIA VECCHI
DAVID STILLWELL
LIONEL PAOLELLA
Associate Professor in Strategy & Organisation, Ecole Normale Supérieure, LLM (Rennes I), MSc (Paris X Université), MA (EHESS), PhD (HEC Paris)
Lionel Paolella is an Associate Professor at Cambridge Judge Business School, and an Affiliated Faculty at Harvard Law School (Center on Legal Profession). He graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (ENS) in France, after which he took a MA in Sociology at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), an MS in Management and Organization Science (University Paris X), and a PhD in Strategy (HEC Paris). Before joining the University of Cambridge, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago (Booth Graduate School of Business) in 2011, and a Chazen visiting scholar at Columbia University (Graduate School of Business) between September 2012 and December 2013. His main line of research explores how market categories – a set of firms that share cognitive and cultural similarities – affect the social evaluation and performance of organisations and how to foster diversity, equity and inclusion in organisations.
Lionel currently teaches the core Strategy course and the ED&I module in the MBA curriculum, and he is also involved in many Executive Education programmes (Strategy, General Management, Professional Service Firms, Diversity Trainings). He received the Cambridge Judge Teaching Award in 2017, the MBA Faculty of the Year Award in 2018, and he has been listed among the Best 40 under 40 Professors by Poets and Quants in 2019.
PATRIZIA VECCHI
Assistant Professor in Organisational Behaviour, BA (University of Modena), MS, PhD (Washington University in St Louis)
Patrizia Vecchi has taught professionals and executives around the world in topics such as negotiation, power and politics, social networks, and leading change. At Cambridge Judge Business School, Patrizia has taken over the academic directorship of the highly successful Cambridge Rising Women Leaders Programme, established by Professor Sucheta Nadkarni, which is centred around the unique challenges that women face as they rise as leaders in organisations and the factors that enhance their credibility and effectiveness as leaders. Besides teaching on the Cambridge Rising Women Leaders Programme, Patrizia teaches Negotiation in the Executive MBA programme, Power & Politics in the Cambridge Senior Management Programme, and various sessions designed to help leaders to have an impact in their organisations in other flagship Executive Education programmes.
DAVID STILLWELL
Professor of Computational Social Science, Academic Director of the Psychometrics Centre, BSc, MSc, PhD (University of Nottingham)
Professor David Stillwell’s research uses big data to understand psychology. He published papers showing using social media data from millions of consenting individuals to show that the computer can predict a user’s personality as accurately as their spouse can. He has spoken at workshops organised by the EU Data Protection Supervisor, by the European Parliament’s Science and Technology Options Assessment Panel, to UK government regulators, and to the Bank of England. His research has also been cited by many governments’ national data protection regulators worldwide. David does consultancy on the topics of psychometrics, people analytics, and big data. He has worked on projects with companies including Amazon Payments, Barclays, Hilton Hotels, RBS, Shell, and Ubisoft.
Sally Boyle
Selina Sagayam
Matthew Corritore
Mark Buswell
KAMAL MUNIR
Shi Tang
Gregory Burke
Priyanka Dwivedi
Andrea Wessendorf
Sarah Steele
Upon successful completion of the programme, participants will be awarded a digital certificate of completion by Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education.
Please note that this programme can be incorporated into the completion of the Cambridge General Management Certificate of Achievement (GMCA). It will be credited as an 'in-person' two-day programme for the purpose of meeting the GMCA requirements. If you require more details on the GMCA and wish to speak to our advisors, please contact executive.education@jbs.cam.ac.uk.
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Note that, unless otherwise stated on the programme web page, all programmes are taught in English, and proficiency in English is required.
More than 50 per cent of our participants are from outside the United States. Class profiles vary from one cohort to the next, but generally, our online certificates draw a highly diverse audience in terms of professional experience, industry and geography—leading to a very rich peer learning and networking experience.
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Each programme includes an estimated learner effort per week. This is referenced at the top of the programme landing page under the Duration section, as well as in the programme brochure, which you can obtain by submitting the short form at the top of this web page.
We have designed this programme to fit into your current working life as efficiently as possible. Time will be spent among a variety of activities, including:
The programme is designed to be highly interactive while also allowing time for self-reflection and to demonstrate an understanding of the core topics through various active learning exercises. Please email us if you need further clarification on programme activities.
More than 300,000 learners across 200 countries have chosen to advance their skills with Emeritus and its educational learning partners. In fact, 90 per cent of the respondents of a recent survey across all our programmes said that their learning outcomes were met or exceeded.
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A dedicated programme support team is available 24/5 (Monday to Friday) to answer questions about the learning platform, technical issues or anything else that may affect your learning experience.
Peer learning adds substantially to the overall learning experience and is an important part of the programme. You can connect and communicate with other participants through our learning platform.
Each programme includes an estimated learner effort per week, so you can gauge what will be required before you enrol. This is referenced at the top of the programme landing page under the Duration section, as well as in the programme brochure, which you can obtain by submitting the short form at the top of this web page. All programmes are designed to fit into your working life.
This programme is scored as a pass or no-pass. Participants must complete the required activities to pass and obtain the certificate of completion. Some programmes include a final project submission or other assignments to obtain passing status. This information will be noted in the programme brochure. Please email us if you need further clarification on any specific programme requirements.
Upon successful completion of the programme, you will receive a smart digital certificate. The smart digital certificate can be shared with friends, family, schools or potential employers. You can use it on your cover letter or resume and/or display it on your LinkedIn profile.
The digital certificate will be sent approximately two weeks after the programme, once grading is complete.
No, only verified digital certificates will be issued upon successful completion. This allows you to share your credentials on social networking platforms, such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
No, there is no alumni status granted for this programme. In some cases, there are credits that count towards a higher level of certification. This information will be clearly noted in the programme brochure.
You will have access to the online learning platform and all the videos and programme materials for 12 months following the programme start date. Access to the learning platform is restricted to registered participants per the terms of agreement.
Participants will need the latest version of their preferred browser to access the learning platform. In addition, Microsoft Office and a PDF viewer are required to access documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF files and transcripts.
Yes, the learning platform is accessed via the internet, and video content is not available for download. However, you can download files of video transcripts, assignment templates, readings, etc. For maximum flexibility, you can access programme content from a desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile device.
Video lectures must be streamed via the internet, and any livestream webinars and office hours will require an internet connection. However, these sessions are always recorded, so you can view them later.
Yes, you can register up until seven days past the published start date of the programme without missing any of the core programme material or learnings.
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After the published start date of the programme, you have until the midpoint of the programme to request to defer to a future cohort of the same programme. A deferral request must be submitted along with a specified reason and explanation. Cohort changes may be made only once per enrolment and are subject to availability of other cohorts scheduled at our discretion. This will not be applicable for deferrals within the refund period, and the limit of one deferral per enrolment remains. All deferral requests should be sent to admissions@emeritus.org.
Flexible payment options available.