Aspen Digital’s Product Equity Working Group is excited to share a new, free LinkedIn Learning course, Equality & Equity in the World of Product. The course is inspired by conversations hosted by the Working Group between tech industry leaders, academia, and subject matter experts on how to approach the practice of Product Equity.
What started as an initiative to create a codified nomenclature for Product Equity led the Working Group to confront a more foundational question: What do equality and equity mean in the context of product development? This seemingly simple question prompted an in-depth examination of how these principles should be applied to product design and development processes.
Over the year, we hosted several collaborative working sessions with practitioners to explore these foundational underpinnings. Views from participating tech and civil society leaders spanned a wide spectrum, reflecting the complexity and diversity of perspectives on this topic.
Amid these discussions, the Working Group co-leads identified a particular approach aimed at increasing equitable product outcomes. Insights gained through the working sessions shaped their perspective, inspiring co-lead and LinkedIn’s Head of Equity, Imani Dunbar, to translate these ideas into a LinkedIn Learning course, which she unveiled at our Product Equity Offsite.
The creation of the LinkedIn Learning course exemplifies the spirit and purpose of the Product Equity Working Group, where companies collaborate together on pressing issues and then go on to implement collective findings in their own work. Initiatives like the LinkedIn Learning course are not official products of the Working Group but independent efforts to thrust our ongoing conversations into action.
