DEI Training for Executives & Leaders

Essential Leadership Skills for a Diverse World

THE EVIDENCE IS CLEAR

In this diverse and changing world, DEI Leadership skills are essential for success

Learn evidence-based approaches and strategies you can put into practice right away. Safeguard your organization's future.

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What you’ll learn—and why it matters

Increase your insight and and improve your decisions

Every field that studies the mind agrees that we have numerous mental shortcuts and biases

You will learn the latest evidence from the mind sciences on mind hacks and practical strategies to prevent biases from affecting your interactions and decisions

Make better decisions and become a powerful role-model for everyone around you

Strengthen your organization's success while achieving your DEI goals

Organizational research from Harvard Business School and others converge on one key point: The foundation for a positive DEI climate is also the key differentiator of high performing teams

You will learn the essential factors that create the foundation for success in reaching all your strategic objectives

Leverage the full benefit of diversity

Diversity in a positive DEI climate improves decisions, outcomes, and organizational resilience. Yet, people find it very difficult – even threatening – to work with people who are different from them.

You will learn best practices for positive outcomes when experiences, world-views and perspectives differ.

Create high performing diverse teams and organizational success.

Leadership Training Program Details and Options

Introduction to Leadership Skills for a Diverse World Foundations

90-minute webinar-style course provided by a nationally recognized expert

Topics include:

  • What DEI really means
  • The essential foundation for DEI success
  • Evidence-backed solutions that reflect the latest science of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Leadership Skills for a Diverse World Intensive

Series of three 2-hour live online workshops developed and delivered by national experts and skilled facilitators

Our training sets current scientific learnings against the real-world backdrop of your unique corporate environment. We learn about your major strategic priorities and challenges through a brief survey before the training and tailor the training to directly address the issues that are most concern

Participants engage with DEI topics in a strengths-based, psychologically safe learning environment and gain practical approaches and strategies that can be applied immediately

In groups of 5-15, participants will learn:

  • What DEI really means and why it matters to all other strategic goals and objectives
  • The core factor that differentiate organizations that achieve DEI success
  • How to create the key conditions that are essential for DEI success
  • Evidence from the mind sciences on the nature, causes, and impact of unintended (implicit) social and decision-making biases and mental shortcuts
  • Personal and organizational risk and protective factors for bias
  • Evidence-based and practical strategies for preventing bias
  • The meaning of identity-safety and its importance to inclusion and productivity
  • Specific action steps for promoting workforce identity-safety
  • Evidence-based practices for creating the best outcomes when opinions and viewpoints differ and the stakes are high
  • Effective ways to communicate and talk about DEI topics
  • A shared understanding of their organization’s specific DEI strengths, challenges, and opportunities
  • Evidence-backed solutions that reflect the latest science of diversity, equity and inclusion.

What Clients Are Saying

“Diversity, equity, and inclusion is a critical pillar of our current and future organizational health. Thank you for making this a cornerstone of our culture!”

– Leadership Training Participant

“This program was amazing… it gave me tools and strategies that will help me be a more effective provider and team member. I’m excited to keep learning more!”

-Leadership Training Participant

“Thank you for all you did. Your report was very compelling, and I think the presentation of results helped the Board (of Governors) understand the issue. I felt like the energy changed in the room – in a good way.”

– Fred W, D&I Professional

“Your research and themes of expertise resonated for me, especially as I think about bias and civility in education cultures and in clinical simulation.”

– Chris K, Director of Experiential Learning

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