A case for imagination in DEI work.

Grace Ouma-Cabezas
1 min readJul 29, 2020

The subject of DEI isn’t often associated with imagination. But anything truly transformative starts with imagining.

Imagination plays an important role in business. Startups and ‘disruptive’ brands know the value of dreaming and imagining. They have to create impactful, valuable things which have never existed before.

Now, let’s imagine a workplace free of bias and discrimination — unshackled from systemic and structural racism. A workplace where diversity, equity and inclusion were core values of leaders and pillars of the culture-not relegated to “committees”.

Imagining what you can do or be is what motivates us to work hard on big plans and execute small details. So what could this new world of work look like?

We’d unlock more growth.
We’d be more profitable.
Our teams would be more productive, freed from the “emotional tax” of bias.

Let’s dream then do — making something better than what has existed before.

Originally published at https://www.ourfield.co on July 29, 2020.

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Grace Ouma-Cabezas

Marketing Exec + Founder and Principal of GO & Co Growth Consulting. Fibroid + IVF Warrior.