My New DEI Book

Earlier today a voter asked me what I was doing between today and my last run for office. I told her that I had a choice to make in 2021 to either become the chairperson of the world's first DEI standard and push inclusionism across 163 countries or run again.

Today, I am delighted to announce that my company has certified the oldest and largest STEM Professional Society in teh USA, the American Society of Civil Engineers, in the ISO-30415 DEI Standard and the case study is cataloged in the 5th chapter of a new book from Bloombury Press.

JFK

Building Inclusive Scientific Communities and Leadership

Case Studies from Professional Societies

Via InclusionScore & Keith Institute:

Our chair, James Felton Keith, has co-authored Chapter 5 in a new edited volume examining the real-world impact of ISO-30415:DISM across professional societies such as the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Developed by our backer, the Keith Institute and InclusionScore, the Standard treats “deliberate equity and inclusion” as an engineered workflow—something measurable, repeatable, and scalable. In plain terms, we already know the first, second, and third steps organizations must take to identify their people and to incentivize meaningful, productive participation within institutions. This marks the twelfth publication tied to the Institute’s research.

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From editor Verónica A. Segarra: Associate Professor and Maryland E-Nnovation Endowed Chair in Biological Sciences and Chemistry at Goucher College

In Chapter 5 of our upcoming multi-author book, authors Gretalyn (Gretal) Leibnitz, PhD, James Felton Keith, Dr. Lisa Black, and Brian A. Burt, Ph.D., introduce the standard and discuss how it can be leveraged to optimize workforce engagement and resilience. They also illustrate, through a case study, how its early adoption is currently being manifested within an engineering professional society.

JFK and colleagues came together 2 years ago at the University of Wisconsin on a $1.25M National Science Foundation funded grant call REVIIS to implement the ISO-30415 Standard at STEM (science technology engineering and math) Professional Societies. After Trump got into office he used the NSF to defund this initiative, but we continued the work.

This is the same framework that has empowered us to audit and certify large complex companies like Deloitte. While America is falling behind JFK's community of professionals is operating in 32 countries out of the 163 countries that have adopted the DEI standard. We are just getting started!

James is implementing more structural progressive cultural change than his oppnents or any other modern politician seeking a path to build a better America after the enduring authoritarian crisis.