DEI Templates
What each document a DEI programme runs on actually needs to contain, and why. Copy the structure, adapt the wording to your organization, and take anything touching employment law to your own counsel.
See the templatesDEI Policy Template
A DEI policy is the document people point at when a decision is disputed, which means a policy of good intentions is worse than no policy at all. This structure covers what the document has to say to hold up: who it applies to, what the organization is committing to, who is accountable for each commitment, and what happens when it is not followed.
View template & details →DEI Strategic Plan Template
A DEI strategic plan is a funding document before it is anything else. It has to show where the organization is now, the small number of things that will change, who owns each of them, what they cost, and how anyone will know whether they worked. This structure follows the order an executive team reads in.
View template & details →Employee DEI Survey Template
People will answer honestly once. If nothing visible follows, the second survey gets polite answers and a lower response rate, and you have spent your credibility to learn nothing. This structure covers the questions worth asking, the anonymity rules that make honest answers possible, and the reporting that has to follow.
View template & details →Inclusive Job Description Template
A job description is the first filter, and most of them filter out people who could do the job. This structure covers the parts that decide who applies at all: how requirements are worded, what belongs in the pay line, and the phrases that quietly narrow a pool without anyone intending it.
View template & details →Employee Resource Group Charter Template
Most employee resource groups fail on the questions the charter was supposed to answer: who can join, who pays, who decides, and what the group is allowed to ask for. Settling those in writing at the start is what separates a group that lasts from one that quietly stops meeting after a year.
View template & details →DEI Training Plan Template
One-off awareness training is the most common DEI spend and the easiest to show no result from. A training plan is the document that connects a specific gap to a specific audience, in an order that means the people making decisions are trained before everyone else is asked to trust the process.
View template & details →DEI Metrics Dashboard Template
A dashboard of everything gets read once. The measures that survive contact with an executive team are the few that show a rate rather than a count, hold a level constant, and can be checked against a system somebody else owns. This covers which measures to report and the rules that keep them honest.
View template & details →Diversity Statement Template
A diversity statement is public, short, and read most carefully by the people deciding whether to apply or to complain. Its whole job is to be specific enough to be believed, which means it should be uncomfortable to publish if the organization has not done the work.
View template & details →Pay Equity Audit Template
A pay equity audit is the highest-stakes analysis a DEI practitioner touches, because what it finds can be discoverable. The structure below is about doing it in the right order, with legal involved from the start, so a genuine finding leads to a remedy rather than to a problem nobody can now unsee and nobody has planned for.
View template & details →Annual DEI Report Template
An annual DEI report is read by employees who were there for the year it describes, which is why a report of only good news costs more credibility than it buys. This structure covers what changed, what did not, the numbers behind both, and what the next year is actually committed to.
View template & details →Knowing the structure is the easy half
The harder half is what goes in it: the rate that still pays you at the end of the month, the clause that saves an argument, the wording that gets a reply. That is what the courses are for.
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