--- name: equity-insight-deck-builder description: "Converts disaggregated equity data and analysis into a stakeholder-ready presentation deck of 8-12 slides for non-analyst audiences, with one insight per slide, plain-language callouts, framed disparities, and a recommended-action closing. Use when turning representation, pay equity, promotion velocity, or attrition analysis into slides for business leaders, executive sponsors, or Talent Partners." argument-hint: "[equity-metric] [audience]" allowed-tools: ["Read"] --- # Equity Insight Deck Builder ## Purpose Turn raw disaggregated equity analysis into a tight, defensible slide deck that a business leader or Talent Partner can absorb in minutes — surfacing the one insight that matters per slide, framing disparities without jargon, and ending on decisions the audience can actually make. ## When to Use Invoke this skill when the user asks to: - Build a presentation from representation, pay equity, promotion, or attrition data - Translate a people-analytics analysis into slides for non-analyst leaders - Prepare an equity readout for an executive sponsor, business unit head, or Talent Partner - Turn a disaggregated data cut into a board-ready or leadership-ready deck - Make DEI findings land with an audience that won't read a full report - Reframe a dense analytics dashboard into a narrative sequence of slides ## Inputs Required Before starting, collect: - **Equity metric(s)**: What the analysis covers — representation, pay equity, promotion velocity, attrition, hiring funnel, etc. - **Disaggregation dimensions**: How the data is cut — gender, race/ethnicity, level, function, intersectional segments - **Key findings**: The 2-5 headline results or disparities the user wants to communicate - **Audience**: Who receives the deck — executive committee, single business unit, Talent Partners, board - **Decision or ask**: What the user wants the audience to do, approve, or fund after the deck - **Sample sizes / confidentiality thresholds**: Minimum cell sizes and any groups too small to report individually - **Tone constraints**: Any organizational sensitivities, legal review needs, or terminology preferences If the decision/ask is missing, default to a "monitor vs. act" recommendation and flag it as a required decision point. ## Instructions ### Step 1: Establish the Narrative Spine Before building any slide, define the through-line in one sentence: *"We have [gap/strength] in [population], it matters because [business consequence], and we recommend [action]."* Every slide either sets up, supports, or resolves this sentence. Discard findings that don't serve the spine — a leadership deck is not a data dump. ### Step 2: Apply Data-Integrity Guardrails - **Suppress small cells**: Any group below the confidentiality threshold is aggregated or labeled "sample too small to report" — never expose individuals. - **Show base rates**: Every percentage carries its denominator ("18% of 340 managers"), so the audience can weigh significance. - **Distinguish gap from noise**: Label whether a disparity is statistically meaningful, directional, or within normal variance. Do not present a 2-person swing as a trend. - **Time-anchor everything**: State the reporting period and comparison baseline on each data slide. ### Step 3: Build the Slide Sequence Construct 8-12 slides following this arc. For each slide, produce a **headline** (a full-sentence insight, not a topic label), the **key visual** to build, and **speaker notes** (2-4 sentences of plain-language explanation). **Slide 1 — Title & Framing** Deck title, reporting period, audience, and the single question this deck answers. **Slide 2 — The One Thing** The single most important takeaway stated as a sentence. If the audience remembers nothing else, this is it. No supporting data yet — just the claim. **Slides 3-4 — Context & Baseline** Where the organization stands today on the headline metric, with base rates and the comparison point (prior period, benchmark, or workforce composition). One clear visual: bar or waterfall, not a table. **Slides 5-8 — The Disparity Story (1 insight per slide)** Each slide isolates a single disaggregated finding. Structure per slide: - Headline: the finding as a sentence ("Women advance to senior manager at 0.7x the rate of men.") - Visual: one chart type per slide, disaggregated cleanly - Framing callout: one line translating the number into human/business terms - So-what: why this matters to *this* audience Never stack two disparities on one slide. **Slide 9 — Root-Cause Hypotheses** 2-3 plausible drivers behind the pattern, labeled as hypotheses (not conclusions). Distinguish what the data shows from what it suggests. **Slide 10 — Recommended Actions** 2-4 concrete actions, each tagged **Owner**, **Effort (Low/Med/High)**, and **Expected impact**. Lead with the highest-leverage action. **Slide 11 — The Ask** The specific decision, approval, or resource request. State exactly what the audience must do and by when. **Slide 12 (optional) — Appendix Pointer** Note where the full methodology, sample sizes, and detailed cuts live — signaling rigor without cluttering the main deck. ### Step 4: Translate Analyst Language to Leader Language Replace every technical term with a plain equivalent: "statistically significant" → "not a fluke"; "representation index" → "share of the group vs. the workforce"; "attrition delta" → "how much faster this group is leaving." Keep the rigor in the speaker notes and appendix, not on the slide face. ### Step 5: Framing Discipline - Frame gaps as *organizational* patterns, not group deficits ("The promotion process advances men faster," not "Women underperform in promotion"). - Pair every disparity slide with a business consequence (retention cost, pipeline risk, brand/legal exposure). - Avoid blame language; keep the tone diagnostic and forward-looking. ## Output Format - **Structure**: Slide-by-slide, numbered, each with Headline / Visual to build / Framing callout / Speaker notes - **Length**: 8-12 slides; 900-1,400 words total including speaker notes - **Format**: Structured slide spec (not prose narrative and not a table dump) — each slide clearly delimited - **Sections**: Narrative spine statement → full slide sequence (Title through Ask, plus optional Appendix) → one-line facilitation tip per contentious slide - **Tone**: Clear, diagnostic, non-defensive; executive-brief cadence — sentence headlines, no jargon on the slide face ## Quality Checklist Before delivering output, verify: - [ ] The deck has between 8 and 12 slides (count them) - [ ] Every data slide carries exactly one insight and one primary visual - [ ] Every percentage on a data slide is accompanied by its denominator/base rate - [ ] No group below the stated confidentiality threshold is reported individually - [ ] Every slide headline is a full-sentence insight, not a topic label - [ ] The deck ends with a specific, owned, time-bound ask - [ ] Disparities are framed as organizational patterns, not group deficits ## Notes - The most common failure is one slide trying to carry three findings — enforce one-insight-per-slide even when it means more slides. - Speaker notes are where methodological caveats live; keep the slide face clean so the audience reads the insight, not the footnotes. - If findings touch pay equity, flag that the deck likely needs legal/privilege review before distribution — note this rather than assuming it's cleared. - When a finding is directional but not significant, say so; overclaiming a small sample undermines credibility on every other slide. --- ## How to use this skill This file is a Claude Code skill in [Anthropic's standard format](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills) — markdown with YAML frontmatter at the top. **Installing in Claude Code:** - `~/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads in every session anywhere on your machine (recommended for skills you'll use across multiple projects) - `/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads only when working in that project (recommended for project-specific skills) Restart Claude Code or open a new session to register. **Using in Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI tools:** 1. 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