Diversity and Inclusion Councils – Toolkit for Diversity and Inclusion Practitioners

This toolkit provides insight about how to establish a properly structured diversity and inclusion council in an organization. Diversity and inclusion councils help to develop or validate a diversity strategy to encourage best practices, goals, and objectives, while also monitoring progress against goals and objectives. This resource provides a detailed breakdown of different types of internal and external councils, such as executive diversity councils, organizational unit/departmental councils, and supplier diversity councils, etc.

CCDI also provides a checklist for establishing a diversity and inclusion council, which includes several items: leadership commitment, diversity and inclusion objectives, procedures and criteria for creating a council, incentives, marketing the council, etc.