Senior leaders are held accountable to ensure that the areas they oversee achieve the diversity, inclusion, and belonging goalsas defined — and included in this are strategic planning efforts such as multiyearplanning to create and populate pipelines.An annual “state of the department” staffdiversity report is shared with individual senior leaders by the dean, and a conversation about obstacles to staff diversity is part of the performance review process.

Takeaway

This practice is an example of elevating diversity, inclusion, and belongingwork to the same accountability level as budget work.