JEDI INCLUSION TOOLKIT
Inclusive Leadership
Give your leadership team and board clear roles, written commitments and a KPI scorecard for diversity and inclusion. You finish with an inclusion maturity matrix and everyday tools for fairer decisions and inclusive meetings.
What is an inclusive leadership toolkit?
Inclusive Leadership is an inclusive leadership toolkit and guidance module in the JEDI Inclusion Toolkit. It gives your leadership team and board an inclusion maturity matrix, clear roles, written commitments and a KPI scorecard for diversity and inclusion, plus practical tools for fairer decisions and inclusive meetings.
Who it's for
- CEOs, leadership teams and boards who own inclusion
- HR, People and Culture leads who support leaders to lead it
- B Corp certification leads working on JEDI2.a and JEDI2.b
Why does inclusion stall without leaders?
Inclusion rarely moves further than the people at the top allow. When nobody at leadership level owns it, it becomes one person's side project. Commitments are made but never written down, and the board hears about inclusion once a year, if at all.
Everyday habits matter just as much. Who gets heard in meetings, how decisions are made and who gets the credit all shape whether people feel included, long before any policy does.
What it covers
- Leadership team tools
- Building inclusive cultures
- Practical tools and skills
- Inclusive leadership and behaviours
- What you measure and report, and using your data to decide
- Where you are on the inclusion maturity matrix
What you get
Guidance documents:
- Leadership Team Tools guidance
- Building Inclusive Cultures guidance
- Practical Tools and Skills guidance
Templates and sheets:
- Leadership Team Tools, an inclusive leadership template with roles and responsibilities, a commitments statement and a KPI scorecard
- Building Inclusive Cultures, with an ownership check, an activity planner and a traits self-assessment
- Practical Tools and Skills, with a decision record and an inclusive meeting checklist
Slide decks:
- Building Inclusive Cultures slide deck
- Practical Tools and Skills slide deck
What you finish with
- A completed inclusion maturity matrix, dated
- A roles and responsibilities grid
- Your leadership commitments, written and approved
- A KPI and reporting scorecard
- Completed decision records and inclusive meeting checklists
Support
You can email us with questions as you work through any module, and you can book a call with the team to talk through how to get the most from the toolkit. If there's a template, tool or feature you'd like to see added, tell us. We build the toolkit around what the people using it need.
Questions we get asked
What is inclusive leadership?
Leading in a way that gives everyone a fair chance to contribute and progress. It shows in the commitments leaders make, how they decide, how they run meetings and how they hold themselves to account.
Is this an EDI leadership toolkit?
Yes. It works as an EDI or diversity and inclusion leadership toolkit for any employer, with roles, commitments, a KPI scorecard and tools for everyday decisions. We call it JEDI because it adds justice and follows the B Corp standards.
What is an inclusion maturity matrix?
A way to place your organisation against defined stages of inclusion practice, so you can see where you are now and what the next stage looks like. The module helps you complete it and date it.
What is the role of the board in diversity and inclusion?
Setting direction, holding leaders to account and checking progress. The KPI scorecard gives the board a clear view of what is changing.
Is this inclusive leadership training?
It is a self-paced toolkit rather than a taught course. The slide decks let you run your own sessions with your leadership team or board.
How does this module support B Corp JEDI2?
It supports JEDI2.a and JEDI2.b. Your commitments statement, roles grid, KPI scorecard and decision records show who owns inclusion and how it is led.
What support do we get?
You can email us with questions as you work through the module, and book a call with James and Dave to talk through getting the most from it.
Can we suggest new templates or features?
Yes. Tell us what you would like to see added. We build the toolkit around what the people using it need.
Is this module a certification?
No. Includability does not assess, certify, accredit or verify anything. B Lab assesses and certifies B Corps. The module helps you do the work and gather the evidence.
One toolkit. Two ways to use it
For any employer
Every organisation needs leaders who model inclusion, not just approve it. The module is built on good practice first, so it works for any employer, whether your leadership team is five people or a full executive and board. The tools fit into the meetings and decisions leaders already have, so inclusion becomes part of how they lead.
For B Corps
Under B Lab Standards V2, JEDI2.a asks for your JEDI commitments to be approved by your executive team or highest governing body, with accountability assigned to them. This module supports JEDI2.a and JEDI2.b in the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Impact Topic. Your commitments statement, roles grid, KPI scorecard and decision records show who owns inclusion and how it is led. B Lab assesses B Corps. We support the work you supply as evidence.
Not sure which modules you need?
A Cultural Roadmap with a JEDI Gap Analysis shows you, so you start where your gaps are.
The Roadmap shows the gaps. The toolkit closes them and produces your evidence.
Need the data first?
We build and run your Self-ID Survey and hand you a board-ready report.
Evidence for JEDI1, from £2,500 + VAT.
