This introductory session will provide your team with foundational language, key terminology and concepts related to diversity, equity and inclusion. During this session, your team will gain an understanding of how diversity, equity and inclusion topics relate to the workplace and can help improve their organization.

This session will explore strategies for creating a more inclusive workplace culture. During this session, your team will consider common obstacles to inclusion and examine how inclusive practices benefit an organization. Your team will walk away with the tools to brainstorm methods for inclusion specific to your organization.

This session will explore common workplace exclusions that impact marginalized communities within all levels of an organization. During this session, your team will understand common reasons for exclusion, and walk away with strategies for identifying, preventing and overcoming them.

This session will provide strategies for acknowledging, celebrating, and conversing about differences in ways that improve workplace environments. During this session, your team will consider why leaders ignore differences, look at the benefits of talking across differences, survey best practices for structuring this conversation and brainstorm methods specific to your organization.

We all are familiar with some common misconceptions of diversity, equity and inclusion, the most popular being that DEI is a political or moral issue and has no real benefit to organizations. This session will explore how DEI benefits not just marginalized groups, but everyone. During this session, your leaders will explore how diversity, equity and inclusion achieves business objectives, impacts organizational financials and brainstorm strategies for implementing DEI in ways that benefits everyone.

This session will help leaders take inventory of the responsibilities, skills, and interests they already have then figure out how to modify those preexisting characteristics so they are both more inclusive and more effective. Your leaders will learn how to personalize a plan that connects inclusivity initiatives and other organizational strategies in ways that improve both.

It is well documented that diversity, equity and inclusion has the ability to improve the productivity, profitability, and mission fulfillment of an organization. The organizations that see the greatest impact are those that translate learning into action. During this session, your leaders will identify which strategies to prioritize, pinpoint which ones align with organizational goals, specify which techniques are sustainable and articulate details for implementation. 

For maximum impact, this session works best when the organization has had at least one previous session with Uplifting Impact

This session will provide strategies to review leadership styles, skills, and responsibilities through the lens of diversity, equity and inclusion, considering how more inclusive approaches to strategizing, motivating, decision making, and leadership can improve entire organizations. During this session, your leaders will define DEI as a leadership value, survey the benefits of inclusive leadership and identify strategies for implementing it.

The Special Topic Workshops provides your leaders with an opportunity to strategize how diversity, equity and inclusion can be implemented operationally within your organization.

Moving beyond the conceptual, these sessions provide opportunities for drafting and reviewing specific techniques. Topics for these workshops are customizable to your organization. Session topics include, but are not limited to: 

• Recruiting from Underrepresented Groups
• Inclusive Hiring Practices
• Onboarding More Inclusively
• Retaining Underrepresented Groups
• Creating Employee Resource Groups