DreamFreely Diversity Pledge

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DreamFreely Diversity Pledge

We will:

  • Expand employment and career development practices to be more inclusive of underrepresented communities.
  • Develop a plan to increase hiring of LGBTQ, women, and people of color.
  • Educate HR, hiring teams, and current employees about unconscious bias and explicit prejudice, and activate specific plans to alleviate them.
  • Create internal development programs accessible to underrepresented employees.
  • Share data about LGBTQ, race, ability, and gender demographics within our office.  

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Though I'm going though the list already created by the Mn Tech Diversity Pledge; to see how the conversation is these days:

Anyone remember the MN Tech Diversity Challenge?

I going to do that, but do it better.

Diversity Pledge Plan & Tracking
Ok, five points were outlined, three of which are realistic/attainable in the near-term, one of which is an individual decision and the last one needs to be done publicly. * Expand employment and career development practices to be more inclusive of underrepresented communities. * Develop a plan to increase hiring of

The list contains about 200 companies; and I'm going to reach out to all of them.

The idea isn't to shame or blame, completely the opposite; the idea to inquire and comprehend:


To be forthright, the aspirations of the pledge were basic, but abstract.

Here I reduce them, and try to make the road to their achievement tangible and accessible.

Expand & Develop

We're going to lump the first two together, as their solution starts with the same; connecting employers to employees.

Where are you sourcing your diversity?

The other half of the equation is, what does entry-level look like?

And what does career trajectory look like, what are other entry-points, and how can we nurture access and growth.

Not difficult, just requires a concerted conversation.

Educate HR, Execs & Teams

We'll negate the topics ascribed above as they are false-flags, if you will

Rather, we need to reconnect with ourselves and begin the exploration from there; we will help individuals to do so, and in this way be more open to others, and consciously, compassionately, inclusive.

Internal Development Programs

This is an individual choice, though we at DreamFreely able to help you develop such processes.

Open Diversity Data

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Precedent is already set.