Amazon Web Service (AWS)’s inclusion playbook, Inclusion Powered by AWS, featuring Diversity Atlas, was launched in Las Vegas at AWS Re:Invent 2023, one of the biggest tech events in the world, attracting more than 65,000 attendees.

‘80% of the 2,000 organizations surveyed by the Enterprise Strategy Group in an AWS-funded research study said their ID&E strategies had a measurable positive impact on areas such as agility, customer engagement and company reputation’.

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What is the Inclusion Playbook about?

The Inclusion Powered by AWS playbook is a guide to accelerating inclusive experiences for employees, customers, and communities. It includes some of the key ways AWS has put inclusion commitment into action, including the challenges and successes an organisation will face when developing a business environment where everyone counts.   

The playbook promotes an evidence-based, data-driven methodology, based on the benchmarking approach of Diversity Atlas (DA).

What is the new Whitepaper about?

Diversity is a well-known source of innovation, productivity and expertise for businesses, and accurate data is vital to inform strategies to manage it. The paper explores what requirements are needed in data collection, resourcing and budgeting to navigate the various challenges and obstacles that hinder ID&E. It offers guidelines for organisations to identify and overcome them, and how they can close the gap on building an inclusive workplace.

Diversity Atlas in the words of LaDavia S. Drane

‘[Diversity Atlas is] one of the first tools that … I use as the leader of the team because I really want to understand who our employees were all over the globe and I found that the best way to capture that was through Diversity Atlas.’  

‘The feedback from our employees has been that it was just an inclusive exercise, just asking them to take the survey. We had a substantial percentage of our employees that took the survey and just having the opportunity to answer those questions like that took it farther than just being a check the box that you are other but really trying to understand them and who they are.’  

LaDavia S. Drane

Resources

• Watch the longer version here.
• Get your free DEI Data Health Check here.