Embedding IDEAS into how you do your work
To build a diverse and inclusive company requires common language and understanding.
Definitions
"It is easier to build strong children, than repair broken men"
– Frederick Douglass
Inclusion-
refer to the intentional acts that promote humanistic values such as: care, empathy, rights and dignity, human flourishing, and justice.
Diversity-
refer to our varied identities and the variety of differences that exists among individuals and groups of people.
Accessibility-
Accessibility refers to the intentional acts that ensure that people of all abilities and experiences possess the tools to complete and flourish on an equal basis and to actualize their potential capacity, abilities and talents.
Inclusion acumen-
refers to the right mix of enterprise experiences and development opportunities and learning to create and inclusive environment where everyone feel safe, welcomed, valued and enabled to do their vest work without compromising who they are.
Equity-
Equity is not "how you feel" about difference. Equity is how you treat difference. It is an essential concept that ensures fair treatment, equality of opportunity, and fairness is extended to all persons regardless of difference so that they might actualize their potential capacity, abilities, and talents.
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