the Anti Racist Organization Workbook: Dismantling Systemic Racism in Workplace

‘This is an honest, thought-provoking book that takes you on a journey of discomfort that leaves you reflecting on your personal and professional relationship with race and racism.’CHERYL SAMUELS, People & Culture Director, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust ‘The first question I hear from organisations seeking to incorporate racial equity practice is, “What do we do?” Dr Shereen Daniels answers that question with clarity, depth, and practical direction. This book should be on every organisational leader’s bookshelf.’ DR ROBIN DIANGELO, New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility An applied framework for examining and addressing the structural roots of systemic racism in the workplace Many organisations recognise that disparities exist, yet struggle to move beyond zero-tolerance statements, commitments and activity towards meaningful and sustained change. In the book The Anti-Racist Organization: Dismantling Systemic Racism in the Workplace, Dr Shereen Daniels provided a framework for understanding how systemic racism operates within organisations. The follow-up, The Anti-Racist Organization Workbook, builds on that foundation by providing a structured process for examining how these issues show up in practice within your own organisation. Rather than focusing solely on statements, policies, awareness-raising or the implementation of individual initiatives, Daniels guides leaders, HR professionals and organisational practitioners through a disciplined process of examination. Through structured exercises, reflective prompts and facilitated discussion activities, readers are supported to identify recurring patterns, examine how decisions and judgements are made in practice, and develop a clearer understanding of the organisational conditions that continue to produce and sustain those patterns. Whether used individually, in teams or as part of wider change programmes, The Anti-Racist Organization Workbook provides organisations with a structured approach for examining what is happening, why, and what it would take to reshape workplace systems and practices in support of their ambition to become a fair and welcoming employer for all. Dr Shereen Daniels’ The Anti-Racist Organization Workbook: Dismantling Systemic Racism in the Workplace sets out a clear way of understanding how systemic racism operates, why well-intended efforts don’t work, and what it means to address it seriously, in practice. This workbook picks up from that point and moves into precise application. It does not revisit the theory or introduce new language. Instead, it takes the principles set out in the book and applies them directly to your context, and the specific ways these issues show up in your organization. Structured around the Four-Factor RACE Model™, it moves you through a deliberate process that enables you to: recognise how the problem shows up, so you move beyond general awareness analyse how it is produced and explained, so you can see how current practices, decisions and explanations perpetuate the problem commit to a small number of actions, so activity shifts from transactional effort to clear, transformative change with defined ownership examine the conditions required for those actions to lead to meaningful and sustained change, irrespective of leadership transitions, periods of pressure, and changing external conditions The focus is not on statements of intent, zero tolerance approaches, commitments, or diversity, equity and inclusion activity, but on the structural conditions that influence how decisions are made, what is tolerated, what is challenged, what is avoided, and what patterns become visible when you know where to look and what to look for. Applied consistently, this establishes a shared method for interrogating how work actually happens in practice, making it genuinely possible to move beyond repeated, transactional activity that addresses the symptoms, and towards transformative action and accountability that addresses the underlying root causes. You already know there is a problem. You consistently see the impact. This workbook gives you a structured way to examine what is happening, why it is happening, and what it would take within your organization to change it.