When Roe v. Wade was overturned, the DEI Board was there to help members benchmark their response plan.
The Challenge
A DEI Board Chair who’s the Director of Strategic Inclusion at a major manufacturing company needed to put together a plan for their crisis communication after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
How the DEI Board Helped
In this extremely tough moment — when executives were turning to DEI leaders for insight into highly-sensitive public discourse — the DEI Board pulled together a private video conference for 43 DEI leaders in just four hours after the court’s announcement to discuss possible responses to the ruling.
Thanks to the urgent video call, the Director of Strategic Inclusion was able to benchmark their company’s response and messaging in real time with their peers.
The Result
Taking the insights from the facilitated, confidential discussion, the DEI Board Chair was able to guide their crisis communication team based on what other F1000 companies were doing.
This knowledge helped drive internal and external communications in less than 24 hours after the news broke.
