Services

Learning Strategy Planning

We examine your current learning strategy and performance gaps. Through analysis and partnering with you we clarify client/organizational needs and opportunities to evolve or address performance gaps/needs.

Instructional Design

Provide innovative learner-centric design solutions that address client needs while aligning to operational budgets

Strategic Planning Session

We meet you where you are. Building inclusive cultures begins with trust. The competencies of inclusive leadership are also the competencies of successful leaders.  We partner with you to determine your goals, organizational readiness, systems, and a strategy aligned with the operational budget.

Courageous Conversations

Talking about race, supremacy, sexism, sexual preference, gender identity, politics, being differently abled in organizations constructed for ableism is not easy. We are professionals at facilitating these conversations. Bringing together different perspectives, and leaving with greater understanding and empathy is our goal and our experience facilitating these conversations.

Creating Cultures of Belonging

Curriculum

The Creating Cultures of Belonging curriculum is a series of five 3.5 hour workshops delivered in a brain (and body) friendly framework. The courses are spaced every three weeks for maximum practice and integration between classes. Participants will experience research and neuroscience grounded content, learner centric practices, and adult learning methods to engage individually, in paired groups, and small groups, both in and between workshops

Participants will:

• Experience Innerleadership as an anchor to do the work of inclusion

• Practice building empathy muscle

• Learn and practice listening to understand

• Assess dimensions of diversity and the impact and influence in ones personal and professional lives

• Explore bias and the brain

• Practice recognizing and interrupting bias or exclusion

• Broaden perspective through self-directed education

• Learn to champion inclusion through Allyship

Please attend with a willingness to be stretched, to sit with discomfort, to be vulnerable and authentic. With openness to mindfulness, empathy, curiosity, practice and sharing experiences you will leave this process further along the continuum to becoming an inclusive leader. Better equipped to infuse inclusive behaviors throughout your organization and foster a feeling and culture of belonging. The secret sauce of organizational capability.

Innerleadership

Curriculum Pre-requisite

The work of inclusion begins with you. Hence, Creating Cultures of Belonging (CCOB) begin with Innerleadership. Defined as the ability to observe your thoughts and act with agency, supported by your values and an inner knowing that you will be alright no matter what.

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This course is designed to empower you and help equip you to deal with inner resistance, stress, and the anxiety practicing inclusion, managing bias and learning to be an anti-racist are prone to evoke. Resilience begins within. The design is collaborative, experiential, and skill based. It includes researched based assessments, practice, feedback and individual and group reflection. The learner-centric workshops engage the group before, during, and after the course.

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Learning organizations exist when people engage in continuous learning. We all have a comfort zone, panic zone and a learning zone, which is located between the extremes of comfort and panic. Innerleadership equips participants with tools and strategies to stay in their learning zone.

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Learning Goals

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•Describe Innerleadership and its three Superpowers

•List the skills necessary to practice inclusion

•Differentiate between internal and external self awareness and assess your personal self-awareness

•Practice using one simple question to practice curiosity and increase self-awareness

•Use mindfulness practices to pause and reflect

•Describe how to use your values as a bridge to understanding across differences

•Use the three superpowers of self-awareness, mindfulness and your values as a foundation to practice inclusion

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Diversity & Authenticity, The Power of Differences

Leverage the Power of Differences

Diversity & Authenticity, The Power of Difference, defines a broad definition of diversity; inclusive of everyone. The course helps participants identify diversity and authenticity as their superpower, and the superpower of others.

Diversity & Authenticity, The Power of Differences examines diversity, privilege, and diversity dimensions that impact inclusion, access, power, and belonging.

Providing experiential learning methods to identify the value of diversity, and check privilege to support inclusion.

Managing Bias

Course Goals

• Define bias and unconscious bias

• Experience your brain’s propensity for bias

• Recognize how bias impedes inclusion

• Practice surfacing bias

• Describe how unconscious bias can show up in the workplace

• Use effective strategies to address bias

• Create an action plan to recognize and address bias

Conscious Inclusion

Practice behaviors that communicate you belong and are valued

Workshop provides opportunities for people leaders to consider their own and their direct reports’ experiences and need for belonging and uniqueness within groups.

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Learning Goals:

• Recognize inclusion as a leadership superpower

• Describe your role as an inclusive leader

• Use a conscious process to examine your decision making

• Build empathy and perspective-taking skill

• Use RIEAD to practice addressing subtle and not so subtle acts of exclusion

• Reflect and create an action plan for continued growth

• address situations and interactions that aren’t inclusive

• Reflect and take action