The role of research in powering what matters in DEI

Kerry Edelstein, Michaela Mora and Damion Taylor

The Multicultural Insights Collective’s ‘Words Matter’ initiative identified DEI best practice and highlighted the role that corporate researchers can play.

Introduction

The global events of the last few years have clearly had a tremendous impact on society, especially when it comes to recognising the wide array of diversity across the globe. Over the past few years, we have been challenged to think about the way we engage with one another and to actively change behaviours that cause harm to others. We began this research by asking ourselves an honest question about racial justice, and its space in the ecosystem of organisational DEI efforts.

"How do we even talk about this?"

We wondered to ourselves: What words matter most? What language...

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