DEQ Leadership Learning Path

What you will learn:

Origins: Why We Talk About Race -Foundation for everything that follows. Establishes the shared “why” and the systemic frame the rest of the journey rests on.
Unconscious Bias - Where leadership decisions matter most: performance reviews, hiring, evaluations, and the daily judgment calls. Names how bias shows up at the points of discretion in your role.
Communicating Across Differences - The cultural, generational, and gender patterns leaders need to recognize in their teams. Builds the lens for noticing what’s actually happening in cross-difference conversations.
The Color of Leadership and Onboarding Leaders of Color - Directly relevant given the Equity Manager onboarding and the leadership team’s broader role developing other leaders.
Inclusive Hiring - Applied equity at one of the highest-discretion decision points in any organization. Covers the practices that produce more consistent, defensible hiring outcomes.

Enroll in this learning track and begin your learning journey.

36 Lessons

Origins: Why We Talk About Race

This module is a unique exploration of the history of race and racism in the United States.

18 Lessons

Unconscious Bias

All of us hold biases, it is how we organize the world around us. We use, to varying degrees, experience, assumptions, and data (though that data may be faulty) to make broad based assumptions about the world and the people around us.

23 Lessons

Communicating Across Differences Part 1

How we communicate is rooted not only in our family of origin and the community in which we were raised but also by the narrative and feedback society provides to and about us as we mature into adults.

17 Lessons

Communicating Across Differences Part 2

Dig deeper into learning about communication and build on what you learned in Part 1.

22 Lessons

The Color of Leadership and Onboarding Leaders of Color

This module uncovers the elephant in the room, how race impacts the perception, opportunities, support, and evaluation of and for black and other leaders of color. Shari utilizes research to examine Competency Checking.

10 Lessons

Inclusive Hiring I

This training module is designed to help participants identify biases in hiring, understanding the conscious and unconscious bias that impact us all, apply principles of “inclusive hiring” and identify microaggressions. With a bonus discussion on lan

6 Lessons

Inclusive Hiring II

Dig deeper into learning and build on what you learned in Part 1.

2 Lessons

Facilitation Guide

This guide empowers teams to facilitate their own conversations by providing practical tips and a downloadable conversation guide.

4 Lessons

Beyond the Backlash — What You Can Still Do with ERGs/Affinity Groups

Employee resource groups (ERGs) and affinity groups are being challenged, questioned, and, in many cases, targeted. This training clarifies what is fact, what is fiction, and what is still very much possible.

3 Lessons

EXPERT VOICES: Leading With Inclusion

Martha Pelligrino discusses how to apply what you’ve been learning about Diversity Equity Inclusion into how you work each day.

1 Lessons

EXPERT VOICES: Disability Inclusion in the Workplace

Emily Purry discusses starting and normalizing the conversation of disability inside the workplace.

2 Lessons

EXPERT VOICES: LGBTQI Inclusivity

Emily Evans discusses the spectrum for sexuality and gender and moving to a space of gender justice in our workplace.

13 Lessons

Origin Story: Bias in Marketing & Advertising

This module is designed to create a deeper understanding of the system that makes up systemic racism in the advertising and marketing industry and how to identify and account for those forces.

11 Lessons

Origin Story: Bias in Banking

This module is designed to create a deeper understanding of the system that makes up systemic racism in the banking industry and how to identify and account for those forces.

9 Lessons

Origin Story: Bias in the Medical Field

This module is designed to create a deeper understanding of the system that makes up systemic racism in the medical field and how to identify and account for those forces.

8 Lessons

Origin Story: Bias in the Criminal Justice System

This module is designed to create a deeper understanding of the system that makes up systemic racism in criminal justice and how to identify and account for those forces.

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