Making decisions about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in today’s landscape is complex. Leaders face legal uncertainty, reputational concerns, financial risks, workforce tensions, and operational challenges—and without a structured way to assess these risks, fear and indecision take over. That’s why our Decision Scientists created the DEI Risk Assessment Tool—a data-driven, structured approach to help leaders separate real business threats from hypothetical fears and make informed, strategic decisions about their DEI efforts.
-Decide what question you are looking to answer and keep note of that while you go through the questions. This may something like: “we are trying to decide whether to keep the name DEI or change it.”
-Answer a series of questions about your organization’s DEI efforts, business priorities, and external environment, with your question in mind.
-Get a customized DEI Risk Score with insights into which risks are low, moderate, or high for your organization.
-Review risk categories and recommendations to better understand where to focus your attention.
-Use the results to inform your DEI strategy, further evaluation, leadership conversations, and risk mitigation planning.
If you need support understanding how to use your results, please share your contact information or get in touch and we are happy to walk you through your scores and help you strategize. We can also build you a fully customized risk tool if you would like to go deeper in your analysis.
If you are not the CEO of your company or do not have full insight into the larger organization’s workings, you can still use the tool, but we suggest that you complete it with other leaders (together or separately) for a fuller picture.
This tool collects anonymous data, so that we can provide you with insights based on your industry and other context factors once we have enough data to create a benchmarking report (please share your contact information at the end of the survey if you would like to receive a copy of our insights analysis).
We do not track your data beyond what you input into the tool. We will not ask you for your email or any other identifying information, unless you choose to get in touch with us to analyze the results or discuss a way forward.
This tool was modeled off of a simple question - “should we stay the course or reduce our DEI programming?” Your question might be more specific or different than the above but you can still use these questions to get a general sense of risks in each dimension. If you need a more customized approach, please get in touch.
