Creating a safe and diverse environment is very important for any organization to thrive. We must all be more culturally aware, whether you’re working at the community level or national level. This is true no matter what role you hold, whether you’re involved in coaching, sport science, administration, or health care capacities. Becoming more culturally aware is very important when developing a policy or resource template.

Most of us know that diverse and inclusive workplaces are a good thing, because in such environments, employees and participants feel valued and can see different demographic characteristics reflected. A diverse and inclusive environment finds and nurtures the best talent, increases employee engagement, and improves customer willingness to continue to be involved in the organization (Cox & Lancefield, 2021).

We’ll review some steps to consider when developing a resource or policy template on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) for a sporting organization. Simply put, when you're working on an EDI policy, it means understanding the people who work for your organization and figuring out if there's anything stopping fairness, diversity, and inclusion (Pogosyan, 2023).