Leadership DEI Certificate Program – Bundle
Coppedge Consulting partners with Greenfield Community College
Leadership DEI Certificate Program – Bundle
This program will be held September 8-16,2021.
Want to sign up for individual modules? Click Here!
Developed by local & regional DEI experts to help leaders develop the cultural dexterity to lead and manage effectively for the 21st century workforce. The program’s conception of diversity is inclusive and one that embraces all the dimensions of difference including race, ethnicity, gender, identities, age and ability.
Course Description: Five Modules, each focused on a different aspect of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to help leaders at every level develop the cultural dexterity to lead and manage effectively for the 21st century workforce and enact genuine social change within their company culture. Ideal for all industries or sectors, the program can be geared to any learners, from entry level to senior leadership, and can be customized for individual businesses. Through assessments before, during, and after the program, participants will be able to set goals and determine progress.
Module I: AWARENESS: Identity & Cultural Discovery through the cycle of Socialization
The certificate begins with training on cultural humility and its broad tenets for tangible self & cultural awareness. Focus is placed on self & cultural discovery, selected aspects of our country’s history that emphasized division, inequality, and inequity through both policy and practice. This will be important to understand better some of the roots of structural racism, prejudice, bias, and injustice in the U.S.
OUTCOMES: Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes Acquired:
Introductions and Program overview
Knowledge of the Cultural Humility Philosophy and its impact on business policy & practice
Enhanced understanding of DEI and what it means for leadership
Identity terminology and concept discussion
Openness and curious attitude toward understanding historical systems of injustices/oppression that influence work team dynamics
MODULE II IMPACT: Understanding & Redressing Power Imbalances
This module introduces oppressive language and actions of power and privilege in the workplace and the larger community. We explore various assumptions and aggressions displayed in the business world and ways to combat them while attempting to shift attitudes toward equitable distribution of power. Breaking down oppressive power dynamics impacts all business practices. Addressing the need for a deeper understanding of bias, privilege, power dynamics, and the many aggressions influenced by such abuses of power is imperative to individual and collective growth in all aspects of business practices. Therefore, a defined understanding of how power dynamics show up internally and externally is imperative and strongly influences retention, customer experiences, and revenue.
OUTCOMES: Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes Acquired:
Knowledge of power, privilege, and bias language & actions
Understanding of oppression and its various levels: ideology, institutional, internalized, and interpersonal
Skills to shift power to minimize assumptions that lead to microaggressions
Attitude and understanding for equitable & inclusive power distribution and its impact in the business community
MODULE III GROWTH: Developing Mutually Beneficial Relationships
This module focuses on developing mutually beneficial partnerships with a defined population through intentional communication and allyship. The need for mutually beneficial and authentic relationships has always been the bedrock for growing and transitioning DEIL work and diverse partnerships. Essential communication and allyship concepts are explored in this module. Through various communication skills and relationship-building activities, participants will learn strategies to grow and embrace diverse relationships for their mutually beneficial prospects.
OUTCOMES: Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes Acquired:
Knowledge of effective communication and relationship building practices
Cultivating skills to strengthen beneficial relationships
Recognizing and responding to various manifestations of oppressive behavior
Expanded attitudes towards allyship on a personal and organizational level
MODULE IV- ASSESSMENT: Organizational Assessment
This module takes an authentic look into current business practices, policies, and procedures. It creates space for individual and collective assessment of inclusive organizational behavior and determines the best growth and tangible change pathways. Various inclusivity assessment tools are introduced, and an accountability action plan is started.
OUTCOMES: Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes Acquired:
Review of current organizational policy and procedures to determine growth matrix for tangible change
Knowledge of ways to create inclusive spaces through policy and practice
Highlight and assessment tools to support effective, consistent change
Start accountability action plan
MODULE V-ACTION: Business Accountability
This final module is where intentional processing of accountability begins. Driven by the assessment module, each participant will develop a strategic accountability plan for self and organization, including knowledge acquired from previous modules.
OUTCOMES: Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes Acquired:
Methods for hiring and engaging with diverse staff
Strategies for inclusivity
Attitudes for valuing different perspectives (increased creativity, problem-solving and improved decision-making
Ongoing business accountability measures
Leadership DEI Certificate Program – Individual Module Signup
Coppedge Consulting partners with Greenfield Community College
Leadership DEI Certificate Program – Bundle
This program will be held September 8-16,2021.
Want to sign up for individual modules? Click module of choice for signup details and availability.
Developed by local & regional DEI experts to help leaders develop the cultural dexterity to lead and manage effectively for the 21st century workforce. The program’s conception of diversity is inclusive and one that embraces all the dimensions of difference including race, ethnicity, gender, identities, age and ability.
Course Description: Five Modules, each focused on a different aspect of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to help leaders at every level develop the cultural dexterity to lead and manage effectively for the 21st century workforce and enact genuine social change within their company culture. Ideal for all industries or sectors, the program can be geared to any learners, from entry level to senior leadership, and can be customized for individual businesses. Through assessments before, during, and after the program, participants will be able to set goals and determine progress.
Module I: AWARENESS: Identity & Cultural Discovery through the cycle of Socialization
The certificate begins with training on cultural humility and its broad tenets for tangible self & cultural awareness. Focus is placed on self & cultural discovery, selected aspects of our country’s history that emphasized division, inequality, and inequity through both policy and practice. This will be important to understand better some of the roots of structural racism, prejudice, bias, and injustice in the U.S.
OUTCOMES: Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes Acquired:
Introductions and Program overview
Knowledge of the Cultural Humility Philosophy and its impact on business policy & practice
Enhanced understanding of DEI and what it means for leadership
Identity terminology and concept discussion
Openness and curious attitude toward understanding historical systems of injustices/oppression that influence work team dynamics
MODULE II IMPACT: Understanding & Redressing Power Imbalances
This module introduces oppressive language and actions of power and privilege in the workplace and the larger community. We explore various assumptions and aggressions displayed in the business world and ways to combat them while attempting to shift attitudes toward equitable distribution of power. Breaking down oppressive power dynamics impacts all business practices. Addressing the need for a deeper understanding of bias, privilege, power dynamics, and the many aggressions influenced by such abuses of power is imperative to individual and collective growth in all aspects of business practices. Therefore, a defined understanding of how power dynamics show up internally and externally is imperative and strongly influences retention, customer experiences, and revenue.
OUTCOMES: Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes Acquired:
Knowledge of power, privilege, and bias language & actions
Understanding of oppression and its various levels: ideology, institutional, internalized, and interpersonal
Skills to shift power to minimize assumptions that lead to microaggressions
Attitude and understanding for equitable & inclusive power distribution and its impact in the business community
MODULE III GROWTH: Developing Mutually Beneficial Relationships
This module focuses on developing mutually beneficial partnerships with a defined population through intentional communication and allyship. The need for mutually beneficial and authentic relationships has always been the bedrock for growing and transitioning DEIL work and diverse partnerships. Essential communication and allyship concepts are explored in this module. Through various communication skills and relationship-building activities, participants will learn strategies to grow and embrace diverse relationships for their mutually beneficial prospects.
OUTCOMES: Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes Acquired:
Knowledge of effective communication and relationship building practices
Cultivating skills to strengthen beneficial relationships
Recognizing and responding to various manifestations of oppressive behavior
Expanded attitudes towards allyship on a personal and organizational level
MODULE IV- ASSESSMENT: Organizational Assessment
This module takes an authentic look into current business practices, policies, and procedures. It creates space for individual and collective assessment of inclusive organizational behavior and determines the best growth and tangible change pathways. Various inclusivity assessment tools are introduced, and an accountability action plan is started.
OUTCOMES: Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes Acquired:
Review of current organizational policy and procedures to determine growth matrix for tangible change
Knowledge of ways to create inclusive spaces through policy and practice
Highlight and assessment tools to support effective, consistent change
Start accountability action plan
MODULE V-ACTION: Business Accountability
This final module is where intentional processing of accountability begins. Driven by the assessment module, each participant will develop a strategic accountability plan for self and organization, including knowledge acquired from previous modules.
OUTCOMES: Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes Acquired:
Methods for hiring and engaging with diverse staff
Strategies for inclusivity
Attitudes for valuing different perspectives (increased creativity, problem-solving and improved decision-making
Ongoing business accountability measures
DEI Leadership Webinar
Coppedge Consulting partners with Greenfield Community College
GCC and Coppedge Consulting have assembled a team of diversity, equity and inclusion experts to enact genuine social change within your company culture. Join GCC president Yves Salomon-Fernández and Lakisha Coppedge for this lunchtime webinar to learn more about this new leadership series that kicks off in June! RSVP for the Zoom link.
Leadership DEI: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leadership Program for Leaders Across Roles
Embracing, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) has moved beyond being socially and morally correct approaches to also becoming a business imperative for enterprises and organizations that want to flourish in the 21st century, as our country is becoming more plural. The United States is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse. From the Baby Boomer to the Gen Alpha generation, our country has progressively become more diverse leading demographers to predict that by 2045 the U.S. will become a minority white country. By 2060, the country is expected to become a full plurality, meaning that no single race or ethnicity will hold a majority. Today’s elementary school children are the most diverse that our country has ever seen. They are your current and future customers, influencers, and employees and they are making their voices heard, even at their young age.
In 2021, Greta Thunberg, the Swedish activist who inspired the global climate demonstrations across all continents turned 18. Besides being vocal and effective users of social media, this GenZ generation knows how to harness the power of their older Millennial siblings, their GenX parents, Boomer grandparents, and their younger Gen Alpha siblings to make their messages heard. Businesses that cannot communicate with a diverse clientele, foster and retain a diverse employee base will encounter difficulties thriving in a changing world.
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership Program is a new initiative of Greenfield Community College developed in partnership with Coppedge Consulting’s and delivered by local experts to help leaders develop the cultural dexterity to lead and manage effectively for the 21st-century workforce. The program’s conception of diversity is inclusive and one that embraces all the dimensions of difference including race, ethnicity, gender, identities, age, and ability.
This certificate program is intended to train leaders across roles and business sectors to foster an inclusive environment for the country and community that we are now and that we are becoming. The certificate comprises five modules and begins with training on cultural humility and highlights selected aspects of our country’s history that emphasized division, inequality, and inequity through both policy and practice. This will be important to better understand some of the roots of structural racism, prejudice, bias, and inequity in the U.S. We will also address some of the ways that, through laws and policies at the federal government, the country sought to mitigate the impact of these historical practices.
Program Business Benefits: Successful completion of the program will help staff show up without fear of being their true selves. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 fueled other marginalized and disenfranchised groups to leverage legislative change. Therefore, broadening participants’ understanding of the various acts of discrimination that spawn from systemic injustices centered around racial inequities, and oppressions sharpen one’s understanding of the need for continual DEI infusion in leadership and business sectors. In doing so, embraces a broader vision of success that encompasses learning, innovation, creativity, flexibility, equity, retention, and human dignity.
Program Outcomes: Participants will increase knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward impactful growth, self & business model assessment & action plans for aligning inclusive and equitable business practice and policy across cultures, intersectionalities, and generations. Outcomes are based upon the willingness and openness of each participant to authentically engage in the training content, active engagement in activities, and completion of pre and post-assessments.
Module Options: The certificate program is implemented in FIVE key modules. The modules are available individually or as a package for maximum impact. Businesses will appreciate the diversity in program options to include all learners from entry-level to senior-level staff.
