Join the leadership of an organization with many reporting arms (e.g., house of worship, national professional organization).

Join a task force or group that actively seeks to improve the experiences of the stakeholders served.

Invite the most skeptical member of your peer group to partner with you on a change project. Learn the basis of their resistance and help them to understand the importance of the endeavor.

Invite members of a U-M group you are involved with to share characteristics of their favorite supervisors. Analyze how those supervisors demonstrated and coached those characteristics.

Invite input from stakeholders who will be directly impacted by a decision that needs to be made. Their diverse perspectives may lead to an innovative resolution.

Invite colleagues to share aspects of their job that motivates them and periodically remind them of those aspects.

Inquire with peers across the university about technologies that they utilize to optimize work outcomes. Try out a few.

Initiate a group to study future technology innovations that may benefit your organization over the long term.

In your next decision making session with colleagues, contribute a viewpoint that is very different from those of others as a means to foster innovative thinking.

If your organization is behind schedule or if a DEI initiative failed and needs to be reworked, take responsibility, make adjustments, and avoid blame.