A Rogue’s Gallery of DEI Consultants
4th February 2023
Last Thursday, the Biden administration launched what its calling a Chief Diversity Officers Executive Council to help implement strategy for diversity, equity, and inclusion training across the federal government. While researching my book, So You’ve Been Sent to Diversity Training: Smiling Through the DEI Apocalypse, I was plagued by the question: what kind of person aspires to become a diversity czar?
Unfortunately, no czars would speak to me, perhaps suspecting I may not have their best interests in mind. Instead, I talked to workers from across the economy about their experiences with DEI training on the job. From our conversations, I drew up a taxonomy of the DEI consultant. If, like most Americans, you’ve been forced in the workplace to sit through a tedious haranguing on race and gender, it likely came from one of four types of detestable reject, now sitting on an Executive Council at the White House: the Masochists, the Parasites, the Saviors and the Born Losers.
Providing nice comfy government jobs for people who would otherwise starve in the streets.
Any resemblance to the sub-species that congregates in HR is probably not coincidental.