Map Your Power: A Practical Tool to Clarify Your DEI Influence
In our latest blog, The DEI Power Gap: When You’re Leading Without Authority, we explored a challenge many practitioners face:
You’re asked to lead—but you don’t have the decision-making power to move the work forward.
It’s not always intentional.
But when DEI roles are unclear, under-resourced, or siloed from strategy, the result is the same: misalignment and burnout.
That’s why we created this week’s free resource.
The DEI Power Mapping Tool
This one-page worksheet helps you map three key types of power:
✅ Access – Are you invited to conversations early enough to shape outcomes?
✅ Influence – Does your insight actually inform decisions?
✅ Authority – Can you say yes, approve resources, or drive strategy?
It’s designed to clarify—not criticize.
So you can lead with intention and speak with precision.
Why This Tool Matters
When you’re holding responsibility without matching authority, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or invisible.
This tool helps you:
- Make your role more visible to decision-makers
- Frame power gaps in business terms—not personal frustration
- Prepare for more effective conversations with execs, sponsors, or collaborators
And best of all? It’s practitioner-centered and built for your real-world workflow.
How to Use It
Here are three ways practitioners are already putting this tool to work:
Strategy Sessions – Bring the map to planning meetings to clarify how DEI connects to ops and people strategy.
Leadership Check-Ins – Use it to align expectations and make targeted asks.
Self-Audit – Reflect on where your power shows up—and where you need more support.
This isn’t about blame. It’s about building alignment.
📥 Download the Free Tool Here
👉 Download the DEI Power Mapping Worksheet (PDF)
📊 Need data to support your conversation?
👉 Read the DEI Report
💬 Inside the Diversiology Practitioner Community, we’re unpacking how we use this map to spark real change.
👉 Join the Community
You don’t have to guess where you stand.
Let’s map it—and move forward with clarity.
