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Leading equity work and changing systems
Moving from foundation to integration to institutionalization: decision rights, resources, accountability, and the leadership practices that make equity part of how the organization runs.
Find a starting point as an aspiring or current leader. Build a development map and connect equity learning with DSD practice, feedback, and succession.
Explore the One DSD leadership experience →A decision record that names the equity questions considered, alternatives, owners, and the date the decision will be revisited.
Division and administration leadership · Program and policy staff
Equity considerations in the solicitation, evaluation, and monitoring, with vendor diversity practice and accessibility requirements named.
Fiscal, contracts, and procurement · Program and policy staff
Transparent pathways, sponsorship, and leadership learning that connect to the State's Emerging Leaders Institute and DHS practice.
Division and administration leadership · Supervisors and managers
Approval bottlenecks, diffuse responsibility, and unclear decision rights were named repeatedly. Systems change is leadership work with owners, not an event.
The Government Alliance on Race and Equity describes racial equity tools as structured ways to integrate explicit consideration of racial equity into decisions, policies, practices, programs, and budgets. Public. Permitted use: cite, link, adapt the method with attribution.
Government Alliance on Race and Equity
The State of Minnesota's official equity analysis toolkit, published by Minnesota Management and Budget, used with the DHS Equity Policy. Public. Permitted use: cite, link, follow. The policy owner determines when it is required.
Minnesota Management and Budget
