Inclusion & Diversity
Supporting and empowering employers to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace and culture.
Company culture programs are an essential aspect of building engaged and happy employees. Organizations with strong diversity climates are more likely to have employees who are more engaged, have increased job satisfaction, and have higher levels of trust.
If your organization is ready to tackle inclusion, we have the tools to help you get started.
Start your journey! CEA has training on demand, virtual, or onsite.
Zywave On-Demand Training and Tools contains introductory courses as well as a variety of courses on HR topics, including harassment prevention training for managers and employees!
Leaders who are committed to integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion into their organizations and the communities they serve will need to will need to examine how a variety of employee experiences impact how they show up and perform at work, and the role every inclusive leader can play in making a difference.
With insight, understanding, and skill development, this timely training will help your team learn to value differences and recognize how unconscious bias is a barrier to trust and respect in the workplace, potentially resulting in discrimination. This training will equip leaders with a step-by-step guide to the personal and emotional journey that leaders must undertake to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
Our facilitated and interactive training covers:
- Primary and Secondary Dimensions of Diversity
- Definitions of Diversity and Inclusion
- Embracing our Differences
- Addressing Unconscious Bias
- Strategies to Create an Inclusive Culture
- Micro Messages
- Setting Clear Expectations for Respect, Civility and Inclusion in the Workplace
- Communication with Sensitivity
With the rate of uncivil and disrespectful behavior in the workplace increasing, cultivating a positive work environment is essential to employee morale, retention, and productivity. A culture of trust, professionalism, and respect enhances team efforts and goal attainment. With insight, understanding, and skill development, we can learn to respect others, and value differences as opportunities and strengths. Learn about:
- What is workplace respect?
- Barriers to understanding and respect
- Strategies for respectful communication
- Etiquette in the workplace
- Embracing diversity & inclusion
- Communication across generations
- The importance of validation and appreciation
When leaders practice “leading with humanity” and create an inclusive work culture, it can make having difficult conversations with team members much easier and more productive. Join us to learn how to set a foundation that weaves in DEI and therefore allows for more constructive conversations and less conflict in the workplace.
Articles & Resources
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Articles
- What is Unconscious Bias?
- 11 Types of Unconscious Bias and how to interrupt them
- Implicit Bias in the Workplace. What it is, What it impacts and What we can do about it
Videos
- How to Outsmart Your Own Unconscious Bias - Valerie Alexander | TEDxPasadena
- Unconscious Bias: Stereotypical Hiring Practices - Gail Tolstoi-Miller | TEDxLincolnSquare
Reports & Findings
- A Workplace Divided – Understanding the Climate for LGBTQ Workers Nationwide (Human Rights Campaign, 2018) In A Workplace Divided: Understanding the Climate for LGBTQ Workers Nationwide, HRC Foundation seeks to uncover the prevalence of LGBTQ workers feeling pressure to hide their sexual orientation and/or gender identity on the job and the cost of that hiding both to individuals and employers writ large. We also research the benefits to employers and workers when workplace climates are more welcoming of LGBTQ people.
- Disrupt Bias, Drive Value (Center for Talent Innovation, 2017) Centered on dramatic findings which chart the incidence of perceived bias, this nationwide study identifies where bias occurs in corporate America's talent assessment processes, maps out which talent cohorts perceive bias in which areas, and measures bias's cost to the bottom line.
- Implicit Bias and Structural Inequity
Articles to read
Information Gathered By: The Conscious Kid, We are an education, research, and policy organization dedicated to equity and promoting positive racial identity development in youth. We support organizations, families, and educators in taking action to disrupt racism in young children.
- “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
- The Combahee River Collective Statement
- “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
- “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
- Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
- Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility' (1:23:30)
- "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
Podcasts to subscribe to
- About Race
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
- Seeing White
Books to read
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander - The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
by Grace Lee Boggs - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
Films and TV series to watch
- 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
- American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
- Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
- Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Hulu with Cinemax or available to rent
- Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
- Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
- Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
- I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
- Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
- King In The Wilderness — HBO
- See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
- Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
- The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Available to rent for free
- When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
Organizations to follow on social media
- Antiracism Center: Twitter
- Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Justice League NYC: Twitter | Instagram + Gathering For Justice