DEI Initiatives

I am looking for advice in getting DEI initiatives off the ground at our sales company. Our CEO hasn’t been prioritizing it and our culture is suffering and people are leaving left and right. Especially Women. Any advice or insight into getting C levels to open their eyes?

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Trinity
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BusDev
I find it interesting that the CEO is not prioritizing this, nor does the other leaders in your org. Employee experience should always be top of mind and as important as customer experience.

You need to provide supporting data. An anonymous survey is a start but analyse the why, i.e. comments (qualitative) from the survey, provide more insight than the numbers (quantitative). From there, you can define the strategies needed to come up with initiatives.
HypeWoman
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District Sales Manager
I think that with COVID and our swift move to work from home the focus shifted and we are not able to keep up with the growth. I definitely will put together some research to see what we can do. 
Trinity
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Btw, kudos to you for taking the initiative in changing the trajectory of your company's culture.
HypeWoman
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District Sales Manager
Thanks! 
YoungGoat
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Surgical Technology Specialist
I’ve been going through this at my company as well. Our initiatives didn’t gain any momentum until we were able to find one person at the C level who bought into what we were trying to do.

I’d focus my efforts on that first. Trying to get buy in from 1 or 2 stakeholders at various levels and then arrange a meeting to discuss first steps.

That being said if you’re hitting a wall and getting resistance with everything you try it may be time to start exploring new opportunities. I strongly believe the companies that don’t figure this out will suffer long term and the ones that do will far surpass the ones that don’t.
HypeWoman
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District Sales Manager
Love those ideas! 
SalesPharaoh
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Senior Account Executive
May I ask, why haven't you thought of leaving yourself?
HypeWoman
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District Sales Manager
I have thought of leaving, but I feel like I have to fight before I give up. I think that the company has redeeming qualities(maybe im just drinking the kool aid). 
SalesPharaoh
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Senior Account Executive
Fair point honestly
Numbers
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Associate regional manager
Hi, hype women I work with a company called UIT that takes a good amount of stress off finding qualified DEI candidates and trains them continuously, all they ask is for the company to be serious about there strategy! Would love to explain in more detail elsewhere I don't want to come off as selling just answering your questions.
HypeWoman
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District Sales Manager
I think the problem is that my company won’t pay someone for a DEI role when we need it badly. 
Numbers
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Associate regional manager
And that's typically the problem, from experience a company does not actually support something if they aren't willing to back it with any money. Most people in these communities don't even know they're capable of being in this industry, resulting in not even trying. Like myself, but without the community that UIT built I still wouldn't know and 100's of others as well. which takes time... and in most situations people like to be compensate for their time (:
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