Overcoming DEI Leadership Challenges
48mIntermediate2023-02-22
Authors

Toni Lowe
Career Consultant and Workforce Inclusion Strategist
Course details
In recent years, organizations have faced an unprecedented amount of pressure to deliver against DEI strategy, which has caused an influx of DEI roles and responsibilities. In this course, Toni Howard Lowe covers some of the core challenges diversity, equity, and inclusion leaders face, and specific ways you can galvanize support from colleagues to address the issue and strategically progress. She breaks down the specific responsibilities of DEI leaders, identifies common barriers to DEI, and provides language to articulate DEI barriers, fatigue, and unrealistic expectations around progress. Learn skills to communicate, build accountability, and design solutions every leader needs to advance DEI.
Skills covered
Workplace EquityInclusive LeadershipDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)Leadership SkillsLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - The power you hold in DEI
1. Eliminating DEI Dissonance
- 02 - Getting clear on the real work
- 03 - Why workplace DEI is failing
- 04 - Checking the box vs. real impact
2. Barriers to DEI Leadership
- 05 - Five DEI pitfalls
- 06 - DEI fatigue
- 07 - Inclusion delusion
3. Framework to Identify DEI Pushback
- 08 - Types of pushback threats
- 09 - Forms of pushback
- 10 - Signs you're getting pushback
4. DEI as a KPI (Key Performance Indicator)
- 11 - The truth about belonging
- 12 - Building integrated strategy
- 13 - The power of accountability
Conclusion
- 14 - You can't just do DEI
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