Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: DEI Strategies for Business Impact
Develop a holistic DEI mindset — and use it to build your strategy
Key Takeaways
Build a sustainable DEI strategy which leads to a diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace
Discover different ways to build actionable and measurable DEI goals
Drive business value by implementing a sound DEI strategy across your organisation
Improve the perception of the business and brand for stakeholders that can bring in increased revenue, more customers, and higher profits
Provide new DEI frameworks to your stakeholders looking to build a diverse workforce
What You Will Learn
Capstone Project
Each week’s assignments will contribute to the final capstone project: creating a DEI strategy for implementation in your organisation.
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.
Opportunities and barriers
Develop a detailed analysis of the primary barriers to increasing diversity in your current organisation, including both individual and organisational barriers.
Recruitment and retention practices
Conduct a thorough analysis of your organisation's processes in terms of attraction, recruitment and promotion, and explore potential areas for improvement.
Data analysis
Describe precisely how your organisation tracks DEI, including the data collected, the processes employed, and how it can be improved.
Suggested improvements
Describe the current design and implementation of DEI initiatives within your organisation and what you plan to change.
DEI strategy
Propose a diversity strategy that reflects your organisation’s needs and context.
Case Studies and Industry Examples
Yelp
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.
Shell
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.
College Board (SAT)
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.
How You Will Learn
Video lectures
6 Live webinars with Cambridge Judge faculty
Capstone project
Dedicated programme team support
Live office hours
Faculty
Professor of the Social Sciences and Organisations, Ecole Normale Supérieure, LLM (Rennes I), MSc (Paris X Université), MA (EHESS), PhD (HEC Paris)
Lionel Paolella is a Professor at Cambridge Judge Business School, and an Affiliated Faculty at Harvard Law School (Center on Legal Profession). He graduated from Ecole Normal...
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 J...
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 sho...
Featured Industry Guest Speakers
Goldman Sachs
Sally Boyle is an Advisery Director and a member of the Board of Goldman Sachs International, having retired as the International Head of Human Capital Management of the firm ...
Gibson Dunn
Selina Sagayam is an English-qualified partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s London office and is a leader of the firm’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Practice and...
HubSpot
Matthew Corritore is a mixed methods researcher specialising in computational social science, people analytics, and natural language processing who was trained in a dynamic co...
GlaxoSmithKline
As GSK’s VP of Vaccines Tech, Mark Buswell is a seasoned pharmaceutical IT business leader with experience in CMC development, pharmaceutical manufacturing technology, and tec...
Cambridge Judge Business School
Professor Kamal Munir is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (University Community & Engagement) and Professor of Strategy and Policy at the University of Cambridge. In addition, he is Direct...
City University of Hong Kong
Shi Tang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at City University of Hong Kong. She earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. ...
AccessAble
Gregory Burke is a social entrepreneur and an award-winning barrister dedicated to fighting for disabled people’s rights. In 2002, he launched DisabledGo.com to give disabled ...
Texas A&M University
Priyanka Dwivedi received her PhD. in Management and Organization from the Pennsylvania State University. She joined the Management department at the Mays Business School as a...
Cambridge Judge Business School
Andrea Wessendorf is a third-year PhD candidate in the Strategy & International Business subject group at Cambridge Judge Business School. Andrea’s research interests focus on...
Jesus College Cambridge
Sarah Steele is the Deputy Director of the Intellectual Forum at Jesus, which is aimed at covering the widest range of academic interests across the College. Her research sits...
Certificate
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 advisers, please contact executive.education@jbs.cam.ac.uk.
Note: After successful completion of the online programme, your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you in the name you used when registering for the programme. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education.
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