Awareness to Action: Level Up as a DEI Change Agent in Your Organization
42mGeneral2023-03-09
Authors

Janice Gassam Asare
DEI Consultant, TEDx Speaker, 2022 LinkedIn Top Voice
Course details
Are you ready to level up as a change agent and leader? Do you want to make a positive impact on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) at work? You can make the transition from awareness to action, but you need to reshape your practices and behaviors along the way. In this course, Dr. Janice Gassam Asare helps you boost your understanding of DEIB in an organizational setting, sharing critical strategies to create lasting social change.
Learn about how power works within an organization, so you can identify it more effectively on the job. Take stock of your own internalized beliefs and how they affect your understanding of different communities. Janice shows you how to recognize, reduce, and respond to microaggressions, tokenization, and exclusionary behavior. Get tips on addressing systemic inequity by centering your efforts with marginalized employees, amplifying the voices of others, and building community-wide coalitions for a more equitable workplace.
Learn about how power works within an organization, so you can identify it more effectively on the job. Take stock of your own internalized beliefs and how they affect your understanding of different communities. Janice shows you how to recognize, reduce, and respond to microaggressions, tokenization, and exclusionary behavior. Get tips on addressing systemic inequity by centering your efforts with marginalized employees, amplifying the voices of others, and building community-wide coalitions for a more equitable workplace.
Skills covered
DEI CultureOrganizational LeadershipDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)Leadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - You are a change agent
1. Recognize Power Imbalances
- 02 - Identify organizational power imbalances
- 03 - Harness the power you hold in the workplace
2. Reflect and Commit to Growth
- 04 - Recognize internalized oppression
- 05 - Disrupt internalized oppression
- 06 - Commit to learning about the experiences of others
3. Recognizing and Responding to Individual Harm
- 07 - Recognize microaggressions and exclusionary behaviors
- 08 - Address microaggressions and exclusionary behaviors
4. Strategies to Address Systemic Inequity
- 09 - Center the needs of marginalized employees
- 10 - Amplify the voices of others
- 11 - Coalition building
- 12 - Employee resource groups (ERGs)
Conclusion
- 13 - Leading as a change agent
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