Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshops

The workshop will open with a foundational overview of diversity, equity, inclusion, and unconscious bias. We will examine the presence of bias in the workplace and attendees will gain concrete tools and action plans for supporting their teams. Attendees will walk away with a deep understanding of how to personally contribute to creating a supportive and inclusive culture that will improve retention, provide support, and help employees grow professionally.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how inclusive work culture is created and sustained
• Understand the attributes of belonging
• Know how to support all members of your team
• Plan and measure efforts toward greater team and organizational inclusivity

When done effectively and inclusively, providing and receiving feedback can help your team learn how they’re performing and improve  while leveraging strengths and celebrating success. This workshop is designed for teams that are looking to learn and practice ways to give and receive feedback as individual contributors, managers, and leaders of their companies. This workshop includes feedback models and best practices and an opportunity to practice using the strategies covered via scenarios and role-playing to build a culture of feedback. 

Learning Objectives:

• Define feedback and explain its importance in the workplace.
• Identify different feedback models and best practices.
• Reflect and explain the impact of positionality, triggers, and relationship dynamics
• Develop a feedback plan for themselves or their team.
• Provide and receive feedback constructively and respectfully.

In today's fast-paced and interconnected world, effective leadership goes beyond just technical expertise; it requires a high level of emotional intelligence. This workshop will equip leaders with the tools and insights to harness emotional intelligence and enhance their leadership capabilities.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and define the four dimensions of emotional intelligence.
• Recognize the interconnectedness of these dimensions in shaping an emotionally intelligent leader
• Recognize the significant impact of emotional intelligence on organizational success
• Analyze how emotionally intelligent leadership contributes to increased employee engagement, heightened productivity, and enhanced overall team performance
• Cultivate self-awareness as a foundational skill for effective leadership and team connection

This introductory workshop is designed for team members of all levels. We review the key foundational concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion. By the end of this foundational workshop, participants will be able to articulate what these concepts mean and how they show up in and impact the workplace experience. This is a highly effective workshop for those just starting out on their DEI journey.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and discuss the foundational concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Explain DEI concepts to others
• Consider how DEI impacts every individual's workplace experience

Having clear decision-making processes within an organization can improve accountability and follow through as well as limit confusion when working with colleagues on projects. When the decision-making process is inclusive and diverse perspectives are represented, research shows that we make better decisions. In addition to developing an effective process, it’s also important to have clear and explicit roles and to determine who will be the decision-makers to move from input to action and outcomes. This workshop is designed for managers and leaders that are looking for support and coaching on how they can reflect on their current decision-making skills and styles, and learn new ways of making decisions that are truly inclusive. 

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the key elements of a clear decision-making process
• Apply the decision-making process to real-world scenarios
• Learn how to make more inclusive and effective decisions

Attendees will take an in-depth look at a vital part of everyone’s day– meetings– and discuss how to best prepare for, run, and support inclusive work gatherings. We’ll cover how bias shows up in meetings, different ways people communicate, and how to most effectively acknowledge and include everyone, no matter where your team is working from.

Learning Objectives:

• Name ways bias can impact in-person and virtual meetings
• Identify strategies for running meetings with an inclusive lens
• Assess opportunities to use inclusive language

This workshop explores the key concepts of disability — specifically, non-apparent disabilities— and neurodiversity, and how they impact the workplace experience. You’ll gain a deeper understanding of these topics, with a specific focus on some of the historical context for disability in the U.S. We will discuss unique challenges and barriers to inclusion that disabled and neurodivergent employees typically encounter. You’ll also learn ways you can support a more affirming workplace for anyone, but especially for disabled and/or neurodivergent employees.

Learning Objectives:

• Exploration and increased understanding of disability, neurodivergence and ableism
• Apply an intersectional lens for disability and neurotypes
• Expanded view of how ableism affects us all

In this workshop, we will dive deeper into the intersectionality framework and review how this can be applied to workplace systems, practices and processes. We will review several case studies and practice applying an intersectional lens to various real-life workplace issues. This training is designed for managers, leaders, and anyone who is responsible for implementing and supporting organizational-wide practices.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore how intersectionality serves as a lens to better understand power dynamics at work
• Identify best practices for supporting intersectionality at the organizational level
• Practice leveraging skills by reviewing case studies and scenarios

Microaggressions are everyday verbal and nonverbal slights, snubs, or insults, which can either be intentional or unintentional. These actions communicate negative or hostile messages that are based solely on the recipient's perceived marginalized group membership. In this workshop, we’ll cover what microaggressions are, how they manifest, and how we can respond to them as a recipient, as someone who has committed a microaggression, and as a witness to one.

Learning Objectives:

• Recall what a microaggression is and how it manifests
• Describe how to respond to microaggressions from three different perspectives

Geared toward recruiters and hiring managers, this workshop series examines each step in a typical hiring process through the lens of inclusivity. The workshop will open with a review of the foundational concepts of diversity, equity, inclusion, and unconscious bias. We break down the entire life cycle of your specific hiring process through an inclusive and equitable lens. From creating the initial job description to making an offer, participants will explore how bias manifests at each stage, and provide tangible strategies to mitigate it. We will practice with hands-on activities, and wrap up by having each participant develop their own action plan so that they feel empowered to take steps toward change after the workshop.

Learning Objectives:

• Define how unconscious bias manifests during the hiring process
• Analyze job descriptions through an inclusive and equitable lens
• Recognize how to expand your sourcing practices
• Express how to inclusively assess your candidate pool via resume review, interviewing, and negotiating

This workshop is designed for team members of all levels. We review and dig deep into the concept of unconscious bias. Attendees will explore how implicit attitudes and socializations impact our decisions and the interactions we have with one another. By the end of this foundational workshop, participants will understand and be able to discuss key concepts, articulate what unconscious bias is, and spot how it manifests at work. Participants will be provided with methods and strategies to help mitigate bias in the workplace and beyond.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain the concept of unconscious bias and how it manifests in a workplace environment
• Recognize how bias manifests in the workplace
• Apply methods for mitigating bias in the workplace

As we increasingly work with people from different cultural backgrounds, a necessary skill is having a deeper appreciation for and understanding of those with different beliefs, values, and practices from our own. A core component of this work is a concept called “cultural humility”, which is the ongoing journey of learning about and adapting to different cultures. In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore the definitions of awareness, competence, and humility, as well as the diversity of the workplace landscape. We’ll discuss the barriers and challenges to cultural competence and humility, and the role that employees can play at the individual, interpersonal, and organizational level. This workshop will give your team the opportunity to practice using customized scenarios tailored to your needs.

Learning Objectives:

• Define cultural humility and its key components.
• Identify the benefits of cultural humility in the workplace.
• Recognize the dimensions of diversity and its influence on work and interactions.
• Understand how to recognize and address biases and barriers to cultural competency and humility
• Apply culturally humble strategies through real-world scenarios.

This three-part introductory workshop series examines the root causes of racism and the ways in which it manifests in the workplace and beyond. We will discuss our own personal experiences while thinking of ways to dismantle and unlearn harmful narratives we’ve consciously and unconsciously accepted. By the end of this workshop series, participants will be provided with an anti-racist framework on how to begin recognizing and addressing manifestations of racism.

Learning Objectives:

• Review a snapshot of how racism has impacted the lives of various racial groups
• Describe how racism manifests at the ideological, individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels
• Practice engaging in meaningful conversations related to our identity, power, and  privilege
• Discuss ways we can begin adopting an anti-racist lens in our personal and professional lives

When considering identity, especially the various identities that may or may not be represented within your organization, it is important to recognize that everyone has multiple identities. Intersectionality is a term and concept that was coined to describe the interconnected and overlapping nature of social identities. In this workshop, we will define intersectionality, review various manifestations of identity-based privileges and lack thereof, and discuss how we can consider multiple and intersecting identities within the workplace. 

Learning Objectives:

• Define intersectionality and explain the origins of this framework
• Identify manifestations of privileges and inequities that are linked to identity
• Share data related to the applications of intersectionality to the working world

Each workshop is specifically tailored to your individual goals. However, if you don’t see a workshop topic listed here, we routinely create customized workshops on a variety of DEI-related topics and themes. We are happy to have a conversation with you to learn more about your needs.