The First-Time Manager: DEI

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

With The First-Time Manager: DEI, create a safe, inclusive, and productive space for your team. Alida Miranda-Wolff has worked with hundreds of organizations to help them create cultures of belonging and successful DEI initiatives, which means she knows the common pitfalls to avoid and action items required to make DEI work. Read her latest practical guide, to develop the mindset and actions required for new managers to build inclusive teams.

First-Time Manager Book Mock Up
The First Time Manager DEI book flat mockup

Master the the mindset and actions required to build an inclusive and effective team.

Being an inclusive manager boils down to finding ways to balance power and love day-to-day. When do we prioritize the needs of an individual employee over that of the whole team? When do we hold firm that what the team needs is more important than what the individual wants? How do we ensure that we uphold one person’s boundaries without compromising another’s? How do we live up to the promises we make to ourselves and to each other, all while driving results and hitting our earnings targets? Alida Miranda-Wolff has worked with hundreds of organizations to help them create cultures of belonging and successful DEI initiatives, which means she knows the common pitfalls to avoid and action items required to make DEI work. In this practical guide, she shares both the mindset and actions required for new managers to build inclusive teams. This one-of-a-kind guide will:
  • Help you define your inclusive management style.
  • Provide practical guidance on how to create a healthy culture on your teams through equitable practices.
  • Teach you the basics of inclusive language.
  • Offer guidance on how to give and receive feedback.
  • Help you manage identity-based conflict.

Cultures of Belonging

Building Inclusive Organizations That Last

Learn to create the conditions for everyone to thrive at work through clear, actionable steps for you to build new diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) into your organization. By infusing equitable and inclusive values, experiences, and perspectives into your organizational culture, give your employees what they need to be their best selves and do their best work.

Play Video

Bypass the processes and communication styles that make change impossible in so many other organizations; access these practical tools and ideas for increasing DEIB in your organization.

Filled with actionable advice Alida Miranda-Wolff learned through her own experiences both in organizations that didn’t invest in inclusion and as an expert consultant to 100+ companies in the years following, this roadmap helps Leaders:

  • Learn why creating an environment where everyone feels belonging is the new barometer for employee engagement.
  • Develop an understanding of the key terms around DEIB and why they matter.
  • Assess where your organization is today.
  • Define and take the small steps that build new muscle memory around DEIB into your organizational culture.
  • Increase employee engagement, collaboration, innovation, communication, and sense of belonging.
  • Build confidence in how to solve future DEIB-related challenges.
  • Get buy-in from colleagues (and even resisters) who can clearly see how to move forward and why.

Overcome any limiting work environment and build all new processes and communication priorities that allow your employees to be a part of something greater than themselves while your organization learns to value and embrace the unique experiences and perspective that each employee brings.

Media Bio

Alida Miranda-Wolff is a diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) practitioner committed to teaching love and cultivating belonging. She is an Amazon-bestselling author of two books with HarperCollins Leadership, Cultures of Belonging: Building Inclusive Organizations That Last (February 2022) and The First-Time Manager: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (May 2024). She is the founder and CEO of Ethos, a full-service DEIB and employee advocacy firm, which serves hundreds of clients across the world. She hosts Care Work with Alida Miranda-Wolff, a podcast about what it means to offer care for a living.

In 2021, Alida received The University of Chicago’s Early Career Achievement Award. She is a graduate of The University of Chicago and holds certificates from the School of the Art Institute (graphic design) and Georgetown University (DEI). She lives in Chicago with her partner, toddler, rabbits, and cats. When she’s not working, reading, writing, or parenting, Alida is wild gardening, interior designing, and falling down research rabbit holes.