About the certification
The International Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Professional Institute (IDPI) provides a 6 week intensive, interactive certification program. The Professional Diversity Practitioner (PDP) will be equipped to design company policies that reinforce diversity and equity in the workplace, address harassment and discrimination in organization policies, practices and programs, and ensure equity for underrepresented groups. PDP certified individuals will have the knowledge, skills and abilities to lead and manage DEI projects and implementation. You will be able to cultivate a supportive and inclusive work environment where inclusion and feelings of belonging are a part of the company culture and will enhance the experience for all employees or community members.
The 6-week certification program will provide an enhanced toolkit to gain leaders buy-in, lay the right foundation, build a DEI strategy, and be effective and efficient in managing and leading the DEI journey in your organization.
Your
6
Week Roadmap
Duration
20 hours
Accountability
Worksheets, research, cousework/mastermind classes
Your Resources and Tools
Overview
Five Key Actions to Strengthen Organizational Culture
Learn how top leaders set direction, build alignment, and gain cross-functional support to create people-first organizations. Explore how power, influence, and legacy practices shape organizational culture—and how to drive intentional improvement through leadership clarity and commitment.
Strategic Planning & Implementation
Explore how to build and execute a people-centered strategy that moves your organization from its current state to a more purpose-driven, performance-optimized workplace. You’ll follow a four-phase roadmap:
- Setting up the planning infrastructure
- Gathering and analyzing data
- Defining strategic priorities
- Executing and measuring outcomes
Understanding Common Types of Bias
Discover how unconscious patterns affect team decisions—from hiring and promotions to project assignments. Participants will learn to recognize and address common forms of workplace bias such as affinity bias, confirmation bias, the halo/horns effect, and recency bias. Learn how bias impacts employee turnover, team dynamics, and organizational reputation.
Addressing Bias in the Employee Lifecycle
From hiring to performance reviews, bias can subtly influence critical decisions. This module equips participants with practical strategies to recognize patterns like the “prove-it-again” phenomenon, “tightrope” expectations, and others that impact evaluations. Learn intervention tactics to improve fairness and objectivity across the employee experience.
Counteracting Bias at Every Level
Acknowledging that bias exists is just the beginning. This session offers tools to:
- Apply reflective decision-making techniques
- Use observation and data to inform fair practices
- Recognize influence of power dynamics
- Create psychologically safe environments for feedback and accountability
- Take restorative steps when harm occurs
Counteracting workplace bias
Counteracting workplace bias begins with acknowledging that we all have them, and being open to identifying where bias creeps in, at the organizational, team and individual levels. But then what? In this course participants will learn how to:
- Learn the value of and how to use the slow brain processing system
- Identify opportunities to make informed and equitable decisions
- Continually monitor your own behavior and that of others to ensure you’re not operating on biases
- Conduct an equity assessment of policies, practices and programs
- Actively pay attention to biases of protected classes
- Identify where privilege and power supports inequities
- Speaking out when biases are identified with a psychologically safe environment
- Addressing when harm is caused and incorporating restorative principles
Building Stronger Workplaces Through Organizational Assessments
Participants will learn how to conduct culture and workplace audits to identify patterns and practices that may result in uneven outcomes. Explore frameworks for reviewing systems, policies, and programs to ensure alignment with values, performance goals, and employee well-being.
Creating equitable solutions thru equity assessments and audits
Equity assessments, sometimes also called “equity audits”, “equity lens”, or “climate assessments,” involve collecting and analyzing information, usually through multiple data-gathering processes, in order to determine the extent to which there are disparities or inequities inherently built into your organization’s policies, processes, practices and programs, These can occur at the system, structure or people levels and can have an impact internally or externally.
An intentional focus on conducting an equity assessment in ways that recognize and support the needs of underserved populations can more effectively promote equity and inclusion, leading to a culture of belonging. Participants will be introduced to a variety of equity assessment approaches and the benefits and relevance of each.
