Making it stick: A guide for establishing effective DEI infrastructure

This how-to guide, created through the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Expanding Equity program, has helpful tips for choosing and refining a DEI governance structure for your organization and offers supporting tools and processes (e.g., metrics, rewards and recognition) that can help make it stick. It uses a sample company called EE Corp — created based on the experiences of Expanding Equity network members — as it establishes its DEI infrastructure. Building this infrastructure is a multi-step process that includes:

Part 1:

1. Choosing a governance structure
2. Setting up the structure
3. Getting people involved
4. Assessing internal challenges
5. Refining the structure

Part 2:

1. Defining metrics
2. Establishing rewards
3. Continuously improving