The Positionality Prism is a framework that helps individuals explore how their intersecting identities shape their perceptions, power, and actions. By understanding positionality through its three parts—Personhood, Perception, and Power—and nine actionable practices, individuals can foster greater self-awareness, challenge biases, and create systemic change.
Belonging is a vital part of the human experience, influencing our health, collaboration, and sense of purpose. This article explores the top ten reasons why belonging matters. Discover how fostering belonging can help create environments where everyone thrives.
Giving feedback can be challenging, and receiving it even more so. In this post, discover how to use empathy, active listening, and our LISTEN framework to improve your feedback-receiving skills. This article provides case study examples and gives you strategies for better communication.
Revolutionize your workplace with our DRIVE framework – a strategic, data-driven approach to foster real inclusion and diversity, turning aspirations into impactful, lasting organizational change.
Indigenous Peoples’ Day recognizes the rich history, culture, and contributions of Native people. It’s an opportunity to educate others about tribes, challenge the prevalent negative stereotypes, and highlight the Indigenous community’s issues.
Discover how engineering education is undergoing a transformative shift, prioritizing humanity over technicality. This article delves into the critical need to humanize the learning environment, reduce stress, and promote inclusivity, offering insights into a more equitable and supportive future for all engineering students.
Explore the transformative potential of self-awareness through positionality. This article underscores the importance of recognizing and reflecting on our power, privilege, and identity to dismantle oppressive systems, fostering inclusivity and equity for all.
This article uncovers the systematic oppression faced by traditionally marginalized groups in engineering. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing and dismantling these systems through a systems-thinking approach, offering hope for creating inclusive learning environments. Download a PDF Resource.
If we want to Intentionally Engineer Inclusion™ and positively influence our organizations towards diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and belonging, we have to prioritize and take action. In this post, we describe the hedgehog map exercise and provide a series of prompts to help you identify the intersection of your passions, skills, and resources. Plus we offer a PDF download worksheet and additional resources for further reading. For when we find actions and make decisions from the greatest overlap of these three elements, we will have greater motivation, agency, and potential for impact.
Join us on November 10 for a live interview on nonbinary identities. You’ll learn simple strategies for bringing inclusive of your nonbinary colleagues and students.
We help people intentionally and systematically engineer equity and inclusion into their organizations: driving positive outcomes and effectively supporting employees and the community.
We acknowledge that we gather as Engineer Inclusion in Orange, Texas, on the unceded land of the Ishak (Atakapa), Koasati (Coushatta), and Alabama Peoples. Colonizers excised these indigenous groups from their traditional land through forced removal. We honor with gratitude the land itself and the people who have stewarded it throughout the generations. We invite you to learn more about land acknowledgments here and search for the traditional stewards of the land where you live and work here.
