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Tools for Inclusion & Belonging

Course Overview

This foundational leadership training course helps leaders understand how individual identities and institutional/structural inequities impact workplace experiences and efficiency of individuals and teams. It provides a leadership toolkit to effectively lead the organizational design and change initatives that support the needs of organizations and their diverse employees, customers, and stakeholders. During this course, we will explore leaders' own identities (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexuality, age, disability, social class, culture, etc.) as well as their lived or witnessed experiences with inclusion, exclusion, and belonging.

  • Live virtual, interactive workshops
  • Pre-work including individual Intercultural Development Inventory assessment and a one-on-one coaching session

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Who Should Attend

  • Team leaders, people managers, consultants, organizational and leadership coaches, and other advisors and executive leaders for whom equity and inclusion is a personal, team and/or organizational imperative.
  • Mid- to senior-level leaders who want to strengthen their skills as inclusive leaders and meaningfully improve their workplace relationships and team cultures.

Questions We Will Answer

  • How do I go beyond discussions of diversity to engage in more equitable, inclusive, and just practices?
  • How am I approaching differences in the workplace, and is my intention matching my impact?
  • What do I need to know about myself and others to be a truly inclusive leader to all people/identities?

Benefits and Outcomes

By participating in this session, you will learn how to:

  • Assess your approaches and impacts in the workplace when dealing with differences.
  • Recognize the impacts of culture and social identities in and outside the workplace.
  • Apply developmental theory to yourself and teams/groups to facilitate more inclusive and equitable practices in the workplace.
  • Identify power structures on the micro-levels: internal, individual, and in groups.
  • Develop and use your own critical consciousness to identify and communicate action steps for equity, inclusion, and justice in professional relationships, teams/groups, and with senior leaders of an organization.

Earn Continuing Education Credit

  • ELOC is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. This program is valid for 12.5 PDCs for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP.
  • ELOC is accredited by IACET giving students the opportunity to earn CEUs. This program is valid for 1.3 IACET CEUs.

Program Content

  • Welcome and Community Introductions
  • Community Context and Brave Space
  • Seeing the Impact of Culture
  • Exploring Approaches to Diversity and Inclusion
  • Racial Identity Development
  • Leadership Lens
  • Intersectionality
    • Socioeconomic Status and Social Class
    • Gender and Sexuality
    • Age
    • Disability
    • Ethnicity
  • Reflection/Honorable Close

FAQs

Why learn about me? Shouldn’t I be learning about others?

This course centers self and the individual level as a foundational step toward creating long-term and sustainable organizational change.

Is this course appropriate for members of groups or teams from the same organization to attend together?

Yes! We have delivered a version of this course to groups of professionals from the same organization and they have found it useful both for individual leadership development and in developing shared language and understanding for use in their work together.

Group Discounts and Private Sessions

If you are interested in a group discount or designing a custom, private session for your organization, please email us at eloc@northwestern.edu.

Is this course implicit bias training?

No. While this course will reference bias in the workplace, it focuses on providing leaders with a leadership toolkit to effectively lead the organizational design and change initiatives that support the needs of organizations and their diverse employees, customers, and stakeholders.

Is this course for professionals working in all sectors?

Yes! This course is relevant to mid to senior-leaders across sectors, industries, and roles.

Is this course only for DEIJ practitioners?

No! This course is for any mid to sennior-leader who works with people as an internal manager, team leader, project leader, external consultant, and/or coach.

Instructors

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Kelly C. Weiley

Kelly C. Weiley is the Founder and Principal of CoAct Consulting, which she started in 2007 to continue the work of cultural competency, diversity, equity, and inclusion outside the traditional classroom setting. In her 20+ years of working, she has trained over 25,000 people on topics ranging from creating social change, diversity, and intercultural competency, to navigating difficult conversations, creating inclusive spaces, and facilitating controversial issues.

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Kourtney Cockrell

Kourtney Cockrell is the Regional Director of Global Philanthropy and VP of Corporate Responsibility with JPMorgan’s The Fellowship Initiative. She is also the co-founder of the FGLI Consortium, a national organization centered around the experience of first-generation and/or lower-income college students at highly selective universities. She has expertise in college access, social justice education, organizational change, nonprofit management, and talent management.