Internal diversity groups are a valuable component of a company’s diversity, inclusion, and belonging strategy because they provide an inclusive and effective mechanism for managing and initiating diversity, inclusion, and belonging programs. Diversity councils/groups successfully integrate the company’s DIB programs with their operations, strategies, missions, and objectives. They provide platforms for assessing the effectiveness of the DIB program, introducing reform, and overseeing DIB. They also demonstrate the company's commitment to DIB.
The Global DIB Influencer Group is an action oriented group that advocates, sponsors and evangelizes DIB initiatives and is a voice for all team members on matters of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging.
Items that are specific to a Team Member Resource Group (TMRG) should be passed to the TMRG (for example, the women's TMRG may wish to handle the Grace Hopper Celebration planning).
At GitLab we all contribute! Everyone has an opportunity to lead and provide feedback within the group. The group will be refreshed each October/November. Members will be asked to confirm participation, group size and membership will be evaluated to confirm we are sufficiently diverse to represent the needs of team members at GitLab.
An executive GitLab team member who is responsible and accountable for strategic support of the group
The Influencer group will have two leads who are GitLab team members and are responsible and accountable for strategic direction and operations of the DIB Influencer Group
There will be a maximum of 25 members of the DIB Influencer Group including the two leads. The members of the group will have representation across multiple diversity dimensions including but not limited to: Ethnicity Gender Sexuality Geographic Seniority Department Job Function
The current members of the DIB Influencer Group are shown here
A GitLab team member who is responsible and accountable for specific deliverables of the DIB Influencer Group
To ensure that the group is achieving action the following steps will happen.
In January of each year the DIB Team will ask the existing members and leads if they wish to continue on their role as a member of the DIB Influencer Group.
Once this process is complete, the DIB Team will identify how many new positions are available.
Once a quarter, the DIB Team will assess attendance, team member departure, and contributions of the DIB Influencer Group. If group size drops below 25, this process will be initiated.
These are the Accountabilities and Commitments of the DIB Influencer Group for the duration of tenure:
If you are no longer able to maintain these Accountabilities and Commitments you should let the DIB team know as soon as possible. If the DIB Team recognises that a member of the DIB Influencer Group is not maintaining the Accountabilities and Commitments:
Details to follow
The lead or co-lead will create all the actions from the DIB Influencer Group Meeting into individual issues and assign them to a monthly EPIC. The lead or co-lead will assign the agreed upon member/s for the action to the issue The member/s responsible will provide updates on the progress in the issue and in the next DIB Influencer Group meeting Once complete, the assigned members will close the issue The members of the DIB Influencer Group should ensure they do not take on more actions than they are able to handle