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Confronting Racism at Work | Provides a comprehensive list of books to read. While specifically intended for business leaders and those in managerial positions, there is something for everyone in each book.

Harvard Business Review—Restructure Your Organization to Actually Advance Racial Justice | Focuses on how to go beyond training to create long-lasting impact within the workplace and community

Wharton @ UPenn—How to Begin Talking About Race in the Workplace | Many managers don't feel equipped to have these conversations they know that they and their employees must have. Stephanie Creary shares her RACE model to help people to feel more prepared in having these difficult conversations.

How Should You Be Talking With Employees About Racism? | Provides some key advice that requires individuals, especially those who are in leadership positions, to take an honest look at the organization as a whole and their role within it to begin the path of fighting for equity.

FAQs About Race in the Workplace | Common questions you and others may find yourselves asking when coming to the realization that race must be a topic of conversation at work

It’s Time for a New Approach to Racial Equity | Provides helpful data on economic inequality in addition to 5 attributes of successful coalitions across sectors to fight racial disparities.

Moving Beyond Diversity Toward Racial Equity | A piece specifically written for white leaders on how to address racial equity

Talking About Race in the Workplace | Provides some quick Do's and Don'ts and brief step-by-step directions to get the conversations started.

Welcoming America—America Needs All of Us: A Toolkit for Talking about Bias, Race, and Change | A resource written with a more specific lens of being welcoming to our immigrant neighbors. Learn how to properly and effectively work on your organization’s messaging. Also provides a list of resources to turn to for further education.

Coqual—Being Black in Corporate America: Key Findings | Provides helpful visuals on disparities and sentiments of Black workers compared to their white counterparts along with possible solutions to address these gaps.

Essential Partners—Race Dialogue | A resource written specifically for facilitators who are seeking to talk about race. Breaks up the facilitation in 5 different parts and adjusts directions according to the audience.

Data

Report by SHRM, Together Forward @ Work—The Journey to Equity and Inclusion | Provides helpful facts and figures through engaging visuals on disparities in the workplace and topics around race. Also provides some best practices on talking about race at work.

The State of Black Women in Corporate America | Get the data and facts on representation of Black Women in the workforce.

White employees see themselves as allies—but Black women and Latinas disagree | This data was gathered from a survey conducted in June 2020. Learn about who identifies as an ally and where people are actually falling short in truly being an ally at work.

Best Practices

Bold, Inclusive Conversations: Addressing Race & Racism in the Workplace | Why talk about race and racism in the workplace? Learn why, along with these best practices in engaging in these types of conversation to ensure you are being sensitive, effective, and inclusive.

SHRM Together Forward @ Work—Start a Conversation: Let’s Confront Workplace Racial Inequity | These “conversation cards” provide data and helpful questions to ask others (and yourself) on workplace inequity.

Center for Social Inclusion—Talking About Race Toolkit | There are three key steps: affirm, counter, and transform. This tool also provides contextual questions to ground the conversation, as well as a very helpful glossary of terms. and follow-up resources

Harvard Business Review: Race at Work | Features various guests who are on leadership teams of large companies, providing examples of success stories and best practices.

The Diversity Gap | Provides lessons on diversity and culture change. Learn about a range of topics, such as the Critical Race Theory, stereotypes, prejudice, and more.

15 Informative Podcasts to Learn About Race Relations in America | Podcasts great for employee and management self-education.

Modules

LinkedIn Learning—Difficult Conversations at Work: Talking About Race at Work | In this course, negotiation and conflict resolution expert Kwame Christian shows how to apply a useful framework to open up an effective dialogue at work and facilitate understanding. Kwame highlights the barriers that make talking about race so challenging. He then shares how to apply a framework that provides a consistent tool for how to have these conversations. Using this framework, you can acknowledge and validate emotions, use curiosity to open up dialogue, and work with others to determine what you're trying to solve. Plus, Kwame shares general tips for talking about race, including how to avoid common pitfalls and talk to your kids about race and society.

Videos

Race in America: Diversity in Corporate America | Hosted by Washington Post live, this video is a conversation with Ariel Investment's co-CEO John W. Rogers Jr. who discusses his career journey and the work he has done to ensure equity in his corporate world.

Webinars

Confronting Employer Power to Address Race and Gender Discrimination and Disparities | Gender and racial disparities cannot be understood nor seriously challenged without taking into account and confronting the reality of unequal bargaining power between employers and employees. Watch this recorded event to learn about the impact unequal bargaining power has in the workplace and what can be done about it.

Loyola Quinlan School of Business—Discussing Race & Racism in the Workplace | A recorded webinar that explores how businesses and nonprofits have openly approached these conversations in the workplace, offering guidance from experts and executives on how to structure workplace conversations on race and racism.

The Forum on Workplace Inclusion—White Fragility and Microagressions in the Workplace: When Good People Behave Badly | A 3-day pre-recorded series that is directed towards White employees. This webinar highlights the ways white fragility appear in the workplace and how it can be addressed for individual and organizational growth. This is an intense focus on the feelings of white people when their understanding of themselves and their world is challenged.

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Ready for Equity In Workforce Development: Racial Equity Readiness Assessment Tool | This tool allows organizations to score themselves from 1-4 in 5 Key Areas, including Mission, Values, & Culture, Tracking Racial Disparities, Curriculum, Leadership & Staff Morale, and External Relationships & Advocacy. Under each Key Area, there are 5 “Guiding Principles” that provide the overarching framework.

Coalition of Communities of Color—Tool for Organizational Self-Assessment Related to Racial Equity | A tool that is broken up into 5 steps, with areas where you can rate your organization 1-4 in varying outcome areas, as well as short ended answers and open-ended questions to provoke further reflection.

Survey Monkey—Resources for Advancing Racial Equity in Your Workforce | Survey Monkey has created various templates that organizations can use to measure important inclusion factors and diversity within their workplaces. Some templates include Employee diversity, impact of racism employee check-in, employee belonging & inclusion, and more.

How Companies Can Advance Racial Equity and Create Business Growth | Provides insight on how to cater to all consumers and be equitable in doing so and discusses the steps companies must take to address and reverse the effects of structural racism.

The 10 Commitments Companies Must Make to Advance Racial Justice | Coming out with a statement against racism is not enough for companies—you can only talk the talk when you walk the walk! This article provides 10 commitments that corporations should incorporate into their everyday functioning to achieve racial equity.

FSG Reimagining Social Change | Has resources on making change as an organization and also provides consulting services, including on making social change a business strategy.

Evaluating Complexity | This report outlines 9 propositions for organizations to consider when working to evaluate evaluate their impact on their community and on systemic social change.

Race Forward—Racial Equity Impact Assessment Toolkit | A Racial Equity Impact Assessment (REIA) is a systematic examination of how different racial and ethnic groups will likely be affected by a proposed action or decision. The REIA can be a vital tool for preventing institutional racism and for identifying new options to remedy long-standing inequities. This guide provides sample questions that should be used to address and anticipate potential adverse consequences of proposed actions.

The Competitive Edge of Racial Equity | Details what big companies have done to not only advance racial equity, but how they have profited from adopting inclusive strategies to fight systemic issues. The best practices are broken into 3 categories: reconceiving products & markets, redefining productivity in the value chain, and strengthening the business context. Concludes with pieces of advice on how to begin this work for companies looking to do the same.

Race Forward—Race Reporting Guide | Includes guidelines for covering key issues with a racial lens, reporting on specific racial and ethnic groups, harmful racial discourse practices to avoid, key terms and concepts, and online resources.