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Diversity Books

  • Beyond Race & Gender - Roosevelt Thomas
  • Voices of Diversity - Lori Langer de Ramirez
  • Voices of Diversity - Renee Blank and Sandra Slipp
  • Managing Diversity - Harvard Business Review
  • Walk the Talk
  • Emotional Intelligence for Managing Results in a Diverse World - Gardenswartz and Rowe
  • The Difference - Scott E. Page
  • Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
  • Foreign to Familiar - Sarah A. Lanier
  • Diversity Executive Magazine
  • Diversity Inc. Magazine
  • The Business Case for Diversity - Diversity Inc. Magazine

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Diversity Thinking Style Assessments

Purchased Diversity Exercises and Simulations

  • Diversophy Game
  • Gender Connection Cards
  • Barnga
  • The Diversity Toolkit

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Small Group Diversity Exercises and Games

  • Job Match - Ask two questions in advance of activity -- What was your first job? What was your most interesting job? Then in a group ask everyone to guess which person fits with the answer. As they guess the right person, have the person tell a bit more about that first job or most interesting job.
  • Match Favorite CD/Album to the associate - Each associate brings in their favorite CD/Album, make a list and associates tries to match the CD/Album to the associate.
  • Baby Pictures - Bring in baby pictures and have a guessing contest.
  • How well do you know your manager - Create a list of questions that managers answer. Associates try to match the answer to the appropriate manager.
  • When you were 21 - ask questions such as favorite song, TV show, type of car being driven, favorite hangout, etc. Match answers with correct person.
  • Client Match - Match a list of clients to what the client does as a business.
  • Coffee Cup/Water Glass - Take digital pictures of coffee cups or water glasses that people use every day and match them to the person.
  • Mystery Lunch Day - Ask all associates to indicate their interest in participating. Then all associates' names are put in a hat and drawn in groups of 4. Then a list of restaurants are put in a hat and drawn -- matching a restaurant with a group of 4. This gave people an opportunity to go to lunch with different people and to perhaps try a different restaurant.
  • Research last names - Take each person's last name and map each name to the distribution of the name in the United States. Use the below website.
  • Journal/Book learning's for discussion - 1) find something interesting in one of the WCS Library books to discuss 2) Find poetry or a "saying" that relates to diversity and have each person share what it means to them 3) find a news article that relates to diversity and discuss.
  • Food - Find a food item that appeal to all, i.e., ice cream. Get a variety of different kinds and generate discussion based on different choices.
  • Three Truths and a Lie - Associates write down three truths and one lie about themselves and hand to facilitator. Facilitator selects one person and says the three truths and one lie. Then the group members guess by a show of hands which items are the truth and which is the lie. Then the person tells which one is the lie and elaborates if appropriate.
  • Share something about yourself - In a meeting, have each associate tell something about themselves that their co-workers may or may not know. In a meeting, have each person share the most exciting and/or unexpected thing that has ever happened to them.
  • Communication Styles - Use a communications style inventory that each person completes. Then each person shares their dominant communication styles and discusses different ways to flex styles to accommodate others.
  • Honoring Differences Connection Cards - WCS Library has two sets of cards (like a deck of playing cards) -- 1) Gender cards and 2) Miscellaneous cards. The cards have diversity topics on them with suggestions of ways to play games with them.
  • Color Me - Associates describe them based on the characteristics of a color that they choose outlined on a handout. The attached document includes instructions on how to conduct the exercise as well as the "color" handout.

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Conferences, Courses, and Educational Activities

  • Conference Board's Diversity and Inclusion Conference
  • Chief Diversity Officer Forum
  • Institute for Diversity in Healthcare
  • Cornell University Diversity Professional Certificate and Certification

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Diversity and Inclusion Websites

Diversity and Inclusion Consultants, Speakers & Thought Leaders

  • Global Lead
  • Gardenswartz and Rowe
  • Roosevelt Thomas
  • Pope and Associates
  • Prism International
  • Ted Childs

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Diversity Quotes

  • Jerome Nathanson: The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people's differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience.
  • Rene Dubos: Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.
  • Jimmy Carter: We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
  • Anne Wilson Schaef: Differences challenge assumptions.
  • John F. Kennedy: If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
  • MAX DE PREE: We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
  • JULIE BISHOP: Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.
  • MALCOLM FORBES: Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
  • OLA JOSEPH: Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another's uniqueness.
  • THE DALAI LAMA: Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.
  • MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
  • MOHANDAS K. GANDHI: It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
  • REV. JESSE JACKSON: America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.

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Diversity Articles

Disclaimer:
Please note that we have not had the opportunity to review all of the books, resources/activities, and websites listed in this Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit. It is by no means intended to be all-inclusive and should be regarded as a starting place for your own research and evaluation.

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