HR & Inclusion Leadership Series — Queer Compass Institute
For HR & Inclusion Leaders

The Work Your
Policy Alone
Cannot Do.

Five workbooks for HR professionals and people leaders ready to go deeper than compliance — and do the inclusion work that actually changes conditions for LGBTQ+ employees of color.

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The Gap No Policy Closes
Your organization has a diversity statement. Your LGBTQ+ employees of color are still deciding every day whether it’s safe to be themselves at work.
01
LGBTQ+ employees of color navigate a double layer of code-switching — race in one room, queerness in another — and most organizations have no idea that’s happening.
02
Your DEI initiatives treat LGBTQ+ and BIPOC as separate tracks. Your employees live at the intersection of both — and that intersection is where most inclusion work stops.
03
You’re asking ERGs to do the work that organizational systems should own. That’s not inclusion — it’s labor transfer.
04
The real retention problem won’t show up in your exit interviews. It shows up in the quiet decisions people make long before they leave.
Who This Series Is Built For

Structural change needs
structural tools.

These workbooks were built for HR and DEI practitioners doing the hard work — not the performative version. If you are responsible for culture, systems, or the daily experience of employees, this is for you.

HR & People Operations Leaders
You own the systems — hiring, retention, performance, culture. This series helps you audit those systems through the specific lens of LGBTQ+ employees of color and identify where structural change is needed.
DEI Practitioners & Consultants
You need tools that go beyond general LGBTQ+ inclusion and address the intersection of race and queerness with specificity and depth. These workbooks were built to go there.
People Managers & Team Leads
You’re the gap between organizational policy and daily team reality. This series helps you build a microsystem of safety within your own team and advocate upward for structural change.
SHRM Chapters & HR Associations
Each workbook is a standalone facilitated session or self-directed leadership reflection. Built for professional development programming. Chapter licensing available.
The Full Series

Five workbooks.
Five entry points.

Each workbook is a standalone leadership reflection and audit tool. Start with the one most relevant to your current challenge.

01
Workbook · $47
What Your LGBTQ Employees of Color Aren’t Telling You
Understand why LGBTQ+ employees of color stay silent, what that silence costs your organization, and what it takes to build conditions for honesty. Includes audit tools, gap analysis, and a leadership commitment framework.
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Workbook · $47
Inclusive Hiring Beyond the Rainbow Logo
Audit your full candidate experience — from job description to first 90 days — through the lens of LGBTQ+ candidates of color. Identifies where structural bias is baked into your process before it costs you the candidate.
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03
Workbook · $47
Retention Is a Culture Problem
Examine why LGBTQ+ employees of color leave — and why exit interviews rarely capture the real reasons. Maps the hidden retention tax, surfaces what staying costs this population, and identifies what genuine retention actually requires.
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04
Workbook · $47
The Manager in the Middle
For people managers navigating the gap between organizational inclusion commitments and daily team reality. Covers how to build a microsystem of safety within your team and how to advocate upward for structural change.
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05
Workbook · $47
When ERGs Aren’t Enough
Examine what happens when ERGs are asked to do the work that organizational systems should own. Maps the inequitable labor burden and what transitioning to systemic inclusion infrastructure actually requires.
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The silence in your organization
is not absence of experience.
It is a decision.

Queer Compass Institute — HR & Inclusion Leadership Series
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