Inclusive Decision-Making for Museums

On-Demand Programs: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion

Posted on Mar 17, 2023

Decorative slide with Inclusive Decision Making

What does inclusive decision-making look like for museums? Does it mean that everything needs to be decided by consensus? (Hint: no.) And how do you hold people accountable? If you are struggling to understand what inclusive decision-making looks like in practice, come join Brevity & Wit Senior Consultant Jakob Wolf-Barnett as he offers a simple framework for making decisions inclusively while managing employee expectations and feedback skillfully.

Some of the key discussion points in this video:

Defining the relationship between decision-making and DEAI in museums
Exploring the three components of inclusive decision-making
Sharing a framework to make decision-making more inclusive

Check out the Trustee Resource Center for more resources and tools you can use as a starting point for deepening engagement on the topic of DEAI.

Minal Bopaiah & Jakob Wolf-Barnett

Minal Bopaiah is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Brevity & Wit, an author, and a strategic consultant with nearly 20 years of professional experience. Her areas of expertise include human-centered design, behavior change psychology, and the principles of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) as they relate to media, marketing, communications and organizational design; Jakob Wolf-Barnett is Partner & Senior Consultant for Brevity & Wit, throughout his career, Jakob has focused on helping organizations develop their internal structures and cultures to meet changing expectations by customers, funders/clients, and staff.