Extension
The DEI Beyond the Workshop Workbook
What Changes After the Training Ends — Named and Tracked
The workshop is not the change. The agreement is.
For the professional who has attended DEI training and wants to turn the learning into something that changes their behavior rather than their vocabulary.
The Name It First Experience
Diversity, equity, and inclusion training is one of the most widely deployed professional development investments in organizations — and one of the least effective at producing behavioral change. Not because the content is wrong, but because the gap between awareness and action has no structure. This extension builds that structure. Through focused reflection and commitment frameworks, you examine what challenged you and what specific changes you are willing to document and be held to. You produce The DEI Beyond the Workshop Agreement: a personal behavioral commitment document that closes the gap between what was learned and what changes.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What specific behavior are you going to change — named clearly, not just intended?
- What does inclusion actually mean in your specific role and sphere of influence?
- What will be different in six months that you can point to as evidence of change?
Research basis
Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev's research documents that mandatory diversity training is among the least effective interventions for producing behavioral change because awareness without accountability structures does not change behavior. Patricia Devine's prejudice reduction research establishes that behavioral change requires both awareness of bias and a specific implementation intention. Carol Dweck's growth mindset research applies: individuals make more behavioral changes following awareness-raising interventions when given a structured framework. Organizational Justice research (Colquitt, Greenberg) documents that procedural fairness in DEI programs is more predictive of culture change than training content. Motivational Interviewing (Miller, Rollnick) provides a framework for the ambivalence that genuine DEI reflection produces.
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