Leading Diverse Teams and Organizations

In this new course, you’ll gain evidence-based knowledge and practical tools to help you build and lead diverse, equitable, and inclusive (DEI) teams and organizations. No matter your background or where you are in the world, you’ll gain tools to help you accelerate your personal journey to leading diverse teams and organizations. This program is specifically designed for learners of all backgrounds (gender, race, country of origin, etc.) and levels of expertise (newcomers to the topic or social justice warriors). Over the course of the course, you’ll gain a better understanding of yourself and your personal identity in the workplace and develop new skills to identify privilege, implicit bias, and microaggressions in your organization and take action as an active ally and advocate for change. By listening to experts who represent a range of real-world perspectives, you’ll understand best practices for equitable organizational processes and norms, as well as inclusive behavioral practices in teams. Finally, you will learn best practices for an organizational DEI strategy, including the role of metrics in DEI work and how DEI work can be integrated into the heart of an organization. By the end of the course, you will have created a DEI action plan that you can apply to your life and workplace. Over the course of the course, you will: - Describe the organizational benefits of diversity, equity, and inclusion - Identify the conditions under which diversity is most likely to benefit teams and organizations - Deepen your understanding of various demographic differences and how identity, implicit bias, and structural inequities impact workplace dynamics - Identify best practices for creating equitable organizational processes and norms. - Include important considerations for leading inclusive teams, including conflict management skills, best practices for group decision-making, and emotion regulation. - Gain tools for implementing DEI strategies in organizations, including DEI team architecture, the role of data and metrics, and tools for integrating DEI into the heart of the organization.