“The guide for creating cultures where everyone feels welcomed and empowered.”
KENNETH FRAZIER
Executive Chairman, Merck & Co., Inc.
How to Be a Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador
Everyone’s Role in Helping All Feel Accepted, Engaged, and Valued
How to Be a Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador
Everyone’s Role in Helping All Feel Accepted, Engaged, and Valued
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book offers a clear, proven framework for how anyone—from the CEO to a frontline employee—can play a role in creating a diverse and welcoming workplace.
Creating a diverse workplace needs to be an ongoing effort, not just the subject of occasional training. What can you do to help? Celeste Warren says you can become a diversity and inclusion ambassador. These people are committed to helping everyone see the importance of inclusive and equitable practices.
Warren offers a straightforward three-stage model:
1. Become aware of your own conscious and unconscious biases.
2. Take an inventory of your surroundings: what is getting in the way of there being an inclusive environment in your organization?
3. Develop a personal action plan.
Depending on readers’ positions, the actions they take can be as simple as consistently raising DEI-related issues in staff meetings or as far-reaching as leading an employee resource group or developing a new hiring policy. In separate chapters, Warren offers specific advice for chief diversity and inclusion officers, C-suite leaders, frontline managers, human resources practitioners, and individual contributors. Featuring tools, exercises, and examples, this book offers everyone the opportunity to help make diversity a workplace reality.
Reading group discussion guide available in book.
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Praise
“Celeste Warren knows that when it comes to advancing DE&I, we all must collaborate. She will capture the essence of what it means to be a DE&I ambassador and gives everyone who reads her book, the tools necessary to promote inclusion.”
Subha Barry, CEO Seramount (formerly Working Mother Media)
“Celeste Warren’s approach to diversity and inclusion blends warmth and understanding with bold ideas that are good for business. How to Be a Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador is accessible and relatable to people at all levels of organizations, brimming with simple yet profound ideas to create a more inclusive culture throughout an entire ecosystem of an organization.”
Jen Geller, Director of Programming, CNBC Events and Councils; Senior Editor, CNBC Workforce Executive Council
“Few leaders in business today have led more boldly and consistently on advancing diversity and inclusion than Celeste Warren. Her vision and passion for a more just, inclusive, equitable world where all people can succeed and thrive at work and beyond has helped advance the cause in powerful ways. Hers is an essential voice at a critical time.”
Lauren Leader, Co-Founder and CEO, All In Together
“Celeste’s book shines a light on the fact that everyone has a role to play in order to drive not just diversity but also greater equity and inclusion throughout the organization. Both in the public and private sector, it becomes more important for individuals to understand the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion and the role they can play to drive a more equitable and inclusive environment. Diversity and Inclusion Ambassadors are needed throughout organizations at every level for there to be true progress.“
Kenneth Frazier, Executive Chairman, Merck & Co., Inc.
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