Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
This year PMI officially launched our social good initiative in support of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I). The initiative’s mission is to ensure that PMI continues to maintain a global culture that recognizes the contributions and interests of our diverse stakeholders, including our employees, organization members, volunteers, certification holders, and all members of the global project management community.
We value our differences by building on our diverse backgrounds and perspectives to support a positive environment, promote personal and professional development, empower all people to reach their full potential, and advance and advocate for the project management profession globally.
This site is a dedicated resource to our stakeholders, providing an inclusive space for open and constructive DE&I conversations and offering resources to continue driving change and social good work throughout our communities. Here, you will find information on nonprofit and community organizations leading the task of creating a more just society, as well as ways to get involved in the work and make a difference in the communities and causes that are important to you.
We encourage you to actively participate in conversations, volunteer work and activism that will help contribute to lasting societal change. This is not an easy issue to tackle; it may lead to some challenging conversations.
However, at PMI, we are One Team with One Song and One Dance.
We must all work together to build a more fair and just society – a reflection of PMI’s purpose.
Why are we doing this now?
Diversity brings value to our organization. In late 2019, the PMI Board of Directors recognized the need to reaffirm our commitment to diversity and inclusion. As we continue to grow and evolve it becomes increasingly important to ensure an equitable future for all by doing more in and for our communities.
Acknowledging the injustices that so often plague our communities and in light of recent events, PMI identifies with the global call to action for consciousness and activism. PMI responded by accelerating the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative as a top priority. We initially focused on the challenge of racism and unconscious bias, by launching the first phase of our DE&I initiative, a Focus on Racism.
We are now also adding a second phase, a Focus on Gender Equity, and will be sharing resources in the coming weeks.
Over time, we will include additional topics impacting our community, such as, but not limited to, LGBTQ rights, ageism, and more. Visit the PMImpact site often to stay up to date on new resources and information being shared.
Learn more about the first phase of our DE&I initiative, a Focus on Racism.
Resources
To Promote Diversity and Inclusion, Know Yourself First
- Self-awareness is the first step toward understanding what perspectives you lack, appreciating other experiences and viewpoints and building more diverse and inclusive organizations. This article explains how you can look inwardly as a first step to support and create a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable – Luvvie Ajayi
- Luvvie Ajayi isn't afraid to speak her mind or to be the one dissenting voice in a crowd and neither should you!
- In this bright, uplifting talk, Ajayi shares three questions to ask yourself if you're teetering on the edge of speaking up or quieting down. She encourages all of us to get a little more comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Project Implicit Association Tests
- Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition – thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. Their goal is to education the public about hidden biases.
- This site provides numerous implicit bias tests and describes your results to you for further understanding and reflection on why they are important. We recommend starting with the Race, Skin-tone, and Weapons Implicit Association Test (IAT) to enhance the other resources located on the DE&I site.
Why Inclusive Leaders Are Good for Organizations, and How to Become One – Harvard Business Review
- Answers to the questions of what is inclusive leadership and how can someone learn to be an inclusive leader, formally or informally.
Is Bias Affecting How You Lead - ASAE
- The effects of leaders unconscious biases on things such as retention, innovation and diversity, and how to overcome them.