What are your best practices for identifying projects for DEI Executive Councils and managing the work on those projects? Anyone have a sample DEI Executive Council charter they would be willing to share?

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CHRO in Consumer Goods5 months ago

This is from my old experience as we don't have an executive council here. We used our Diversity & Inclusion strategy and roadmap as the starting point for what the council v. HR v. the business took on. We had multi-faceted strategy, so some things it made sense for the council and teams to own, others fell within ERGs or HR, etc.

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VP Talent, Learning & Organisational Development in Manufacturing5 months ago

The DEI executive council, I think you mean your #1 council at the top of the house, has to be the one communicating the DEI strategy so the regional or local councils know what the priorities are. So I would not have them identify projects but be more sponsors and stakeholder to empower the regional councils i.e. the ones that need to make it happen and empower them to come up with regional initiatives that are fit for purpose. The executive council is then to update your board, shareholders and others but I would not be too top down on this....

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