Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Benchmark Survey

The short survey builds on the next steps to progress identified on the 2022 Benchmark Report and is a continuation of the DRC’s efforts to understand the Dallas Region’s business community’s efforts in DEI.

Your organization completed the inaugural 2022 assessment, and this is a new opportunity to provide additional data and benchmark progress.

The short survey is designed for DRC member organizations that took the inaugural assessment in 2022. A member of your DEI or human resources team will be the best designee to answer the questions.

The short survey will be available March 7- March 31, 2023.

The short survey should take approximately 15 minutes.

No. The DRC is sponsoring the short survey.

Yes, all data submitted through the short survey is confidential. Kanarys, the DRC’s independent third party, will never identify individual participant responses to anyone at a particular organization. All data included in the summary report will be aggregated.

All individual responses will be collected by Kanarys and kept strictly confidential. Further, the assessment is encrypted using secure sockets layer (SSL) technology to ensure that only Kanarys can capture the survey results.

The short survey asks for information on organizational agility, talent acquisition, supplier diversity, and performance.

You will receive a unique link to complete the short survey. The link may be shared with as many contacts in your organization as needed to fill out the sections pertinent to different departments.

Please only submit demographic data and practices for your organization’s operations in the Dallas Region. Data for other geographic areas should not be included.

Yes, you can include that data from in-progress work. The short survey is designed for the business community to participate while still moving the needle in a meaningful way.

Your progress is saved as you go. You or anyone else working on the short survey can return to the link later to finish and submit it.

Organizations may opt out of questions as they see fit.

Before submitting the assessment, you will have the option to save your answers to a PDF. Upon submission, you may also save your best practice scores.

Please contact the Kanarys team at customersuccess@kanarys.com. They can send you a link to get back into your short survey and make changes.

Please contact the Kanarys team at customersuccess@kanarys.com. They can resend you a link to access your short survey.

After the survey closes, the DRC and Kanarys will analyze the results and create a DEI Toolkit/Playbook. All participants who complete the assessment will receive access.