Reconstructing DEI A Practitioner's Workbook

Author of the bestselling DEI Deconstructed returns with a companion workbook filled with practical and actionable techniques for changemakers at all stages of their DEI journey.

The next step in your DEI journey starts here. Building on the knowledge base of DEI Deconstructed, Lily Zheng offers a workbook with thirty-six original exercises, worksheets, and other tools to help guide you toward more substantive and lasting DEI outcomes. Whether you’re a new or veteran DEI practitioner looking to improve your practice, a leader  looking to grow your leadership skills, or an advocate looking to play more powerful roles in movements, this book will challenge you to do just that.  

From self-work to organizational change, this workbook will upskill you with the core competencies required for impactful DEI work – diagnosing inequity, working with stakeholders, building movements, creating psychological safety, stewarding inclusive cultures, resolving conflict and harm, and achieving systems change, among others. Most importantly, it will help you understand how to put these skills into action in your own organization.   Each activity contains instructions for individuals or for groups going through the exercise together.

Lily Zheng (they/them) is a sought-after Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion speaker, strategist, and organizational consultant who specializes in hands-on systemic change to turn positive intentions into positive outcomes for workplaces and everyone in them. A dedicated change-maker and advocate named a Forbes D&I Trailblazer, 2021 DEI Influencer, and LinkedIn Top Voice on Racial Equity, Lily's work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, and NPR. They are the author of Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace (2017), The Ethical Sellout (2019), and most recently, DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing it Right (2022).  Lily holds an MA in Sociology and BA in Psychology from Stanford University. They live with their wife in the San Francisco Bay Area and can frequently be found putting together yet another all-black outfit and enjoying good Chinese food.