Impacting Self
Building your own awareness, understanding, and capacity for equity and inclusion.
Example behaviors at this level
- Examine your own biases, assumptions, and privilege
- Learn about identities, cultures, and experiences different from your own
- Reflect on how your identity shapes your perspective and experiences
- Recognize when your actions or words might cause harm
- Challenge your own comfortable assumptions about fairness and justice
Impacting Relationships
Creating inclusive spaces and equitable dynamics in your interactions with others.
Example behaviors at this level
- Ensure everyone in a group has opportunity to contribute and be heard
- Adapt your approach to be more accessible for different needs
- Speak up when you witness exclusion or unfair treatment
- Build relationships across difference with humility and respect
- Create space for marginalized voices in conversations
- Address power dynamics in teams or groups constructively
Impacting Systems
Changing structures, policies, or cultures to advance equity and inclusion at scale.
Example behaviors at this level
- Design processes or policies that proactively address inequity
- Lead organizational change efforts toward greater inclusion
- Build coalitions across diverse groups to advance justice
- Use data to identify and address systemic disparities
- Create accountability mechanisms that sustain equitable practices
- Transform organizational culture to center equity and belonging