MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS FOR
Belonging Professionals
When you join OTA, you’re not just gaining resources and support—you’re building meaningful relationships with peers who understand your journey.
A Trusted Space for Community & Connection
We bring together belonging professionals from diverse organizations in a nurturing environment. In a space driven by shared mission—not profits—you’ll experience honest, transparent sharing of ideas, experiences and best practices.
Collaborative Innovation
Together, we innovate and develop best practices that empower your work and your organization. Our community thrives on transparent sharing, enabling you to tap into a wealth of knowledge and resources.
Confidence in Crisis
When external challenges arise, OTA’s collaborative approach allows organizations to come together to share ideas and respond more confidently and effectively. By coming together, we reduce individual risks and amplify our impact, ensuring that no one navigates these complexities alone. OTA is here to guide individual companies through individual crises, providing tailored support and strategies.
Tools for Success
OTA delivers exceptional content no matter where a company is on its inclusion journey. We provide top-tier content from foundational principles to cutting-edge thought leadership and innovation. Whether you’re looking to deepen your knowledge of inclusion basics or tie belonging initiatives to business impact, our learning opportunities and resources will equip you with the insights and tools you need to more easily navigate the ever-evolving landscape of equity and inclusion.
Resilience Through Support & Partnership
In times of political and social upheaval, having a network of professionals facing similar challenges can make all the difference. We’re here to listen, support, and uplift each other as we champion inclusion and belonging, making your job easier.
Our Community
OTA helps companies not only successfully navigate today’s complexities — but innovate and thrive.
DEI initiatives are becoming increasingly complex to navigate. Open to All’s mission and approach are to help companies that are authentically on the journey to create a culture of belonging. Our approach is rooted in partnership and support as opposed to lecturing or blaming companies for not being further along or for not being perfect.
We work with a range of companies including those who are innovating DEI practices and integrating them throughout every part of their company, to those who are struggling in the current political environment or who don’t have full C-suite buy-in.
We understand public engagement isn’t for everyone. We have options for companies including those who want to publicly be on the forefront—as well as those who want to participate, but not publicly.
Open to All Resources
In addition to our open-sourced resources on our website, Open to All has many resources only available to our members, including:
Employee Resource Group Guidebook
OTA launched a 100+ page Employee Resource Group Leadership Guidebook, published in partnership with Capri Holdings/Michael Kors and Seramount. We surveyed OTA members about their ERG programs and wrote case studies to address such topics as including part-time retail sales associates, best practices for working with communities of faith, intersecting identities (such as LGBTQ people of color), and how to manage ERGs globally.
Limitless Learning Retail Apprenticeship Program Pilot Blueprint
VF Corporation’s Limitless Learning Retail Apprenticeship program is a year-long program that grants retail associates the chance to develop new skills and make connections in a corporate setting. Open to All and VFC collaborated to create a blueprint for those interested in starting their own pilot apprenticeship program.
Managing Crisis: An Open to All Toolkit
In partnership with the Retail Industry Leaders Association, Right To Be, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, OTA produced a toolkit to manage crisis communications, public safety, brand reputation, protecting employees and customers from harassment and violence, and hearing from survivors and loved ones of hate-motivated violence, including retail locations.
We have three e-learnings available to Open to All members:
- Unconscious Bias Training produced in partnership with Ralph Lauren.
- Allyship and Advocacy Training produced in partnership with Ralph Lauren.
- Reduce Racial Bias in Retail Training produced in partnership with Mattingly Solutions.
Interactive Programming
One of Open to All’s most popular offerings is our monthly briefing series. Some topics we covered recently:
- How to best support Muslim employees and customers during Ramadan presented by Muslim Advocates
- Addressing the rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes with the Anti-Defamation League,
- Combatting anti-AAPI hate with Asian Americans Advancing Justice—AAJC;
- Legal analysis of the United States Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action and implications for corporations with Legal Defense Fund
- Access and accommodation—disability inclusion in the workplace presented by the American Association of People with Disabilities and Disability: IN
- An overview of national and state-level attacks on LGBTQ people with the Movement Advancement Project.
Our briefings are recorded for members to watch at their leisure and to share internally. We publish a blog post following each briefing.
Join Open to All today
We’re here to listen, support, and uplift each other as we champion inclusion and belonging, making your job easier.