Program Overview
- Develop a strong understanding of the historical context, bias, power dynamics, and privilege in the workplace.
- Enhance leadership skills to become a more effective cultural diversity, equity, and inclusion (CDEI) leader.
- Learn to facilitate productive conversations that address equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- Gain critical knowledge and skills to address bias and marginalization and foster an inclusive corporate culture.
- Learn conceptual models to identify and address biases, promote behavioral change, redefine leadership, and recognize dimensions of equity.
- Address known and unknown barriers to building inclusive and diverse teams, such as making the business case and combating unconscious bias.
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of the historical context, bias, power, and privilege in the workplace. (Specific)
- Identify and measure the opportunities and challenges in developing diverse, inclusive, and equitable initiatives, practices, and policies within participants’ organizations. (Measurable)
- Identify leadership skills in cultural diversity, equity, and inclusion (CDEI) needed to drive organizational change effectively. (Achievable)
- Facilitate productive conversations among participants that address equity, diversity, and inclusion, fostering an inclusive corporate culture. (Relevant)
- Explain how to onboard an organization’s leadership to the cultural diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative.
- Learn at your own pace
- 24-hour/365-day access
- Learn in small group settings
- Ask as many questions as you need. Get the support needed to meet your unique challenges.
- High-speed internet, computer access, word processing programs
- Learn from the experiences of others
- Receive your certification after successfully completing the training
- Learn in small group settings.
- Ask as many questions as you need. Get the support needed to meet your unique challenges.
- Learn from the experiences of others.
- Receive your certification on the final day after completing the training.
- The program is completed over four days of classroom training
- May require travel
Courses this Program Includes.
Why students love this program
Hello. You are so awesome! I am so glad that you are sharing your D&I knowledge and experience with the global community. I will definitely keep in touch. I have learned a great deal and plan to put it in action.
Nekita sullivan
I just presented an overview of the program to our Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion and her team. They were impressed with the "Cultural Competence and Organizational Inclusion" framework and the five stages of cultural competence in the model. I shared that by way of next steps my plans are to complete a comprehensive assessment of the business unit I support to determine where they are perceived to be along that continuum and then work with their office to identify potential interventions.
ED Nieves
The information you provided helped me to gain a better understanding of the personal and professional characteristics needed and the challenges faced by Diversity & Inclusion professionals.
Felicia Ross
Thank you so much for your support and for sharing your knowledge...quite valuable!.
Laura Montiel
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That is an excellent question. As of August 1, 2020, federal and state guidance on how to reopen live classroom training sessions is insufficient to even guess at start dates. The pandemic has not been arrested and that is likely the best turn of events that will offer that insight. Please check back as often as necessary or sign up to receive our newsletter at the bottom of this page.
In the meantime, online courses have, understandably, become very possible. In addition, we are currently considering a more intensive live, online experience (e.g., fours hour per day over two days for each course). If that is something you are interested in learning more about, please contact us.
>The CDE is designed and developed for individuals serving in cultural diversity leadership roles within an organization. The individual typically reports directly to the head of the organization, such as the CEO or president. The graduate’s range of potential influence within the organization is considerable compared to a diversity manager or someone with diversity and inclusion (D&I) expertise reporting to a middle manager, such as the human resource manager.
Yes, the distance learning format was the first format we offered the programs back in 1998. Now we use a state of the art learning platform called Canvas Instructure. You can begin the first course in each online program as soon as you register. There is also a weekly – strictly voluntarily – live one-hour video conferencing session for the course. It either meets either on a Tuesday or Thursday. You do not have to attend. It there when you want to attend. You can ask questions, meet other participants, and get an overview of the current module being covered in the course.
That is an excellent question. As of August 1, 2020, federal and state guidance on how to reopen live classroom training sessions is insufficient to even guess at start dates. The pandemic has not been arrested and that is likely the best turn of events that will offer that insight. Please check back as often as necessary or sign up to receive our newsletter at the bottom of this page.
In the meantime, online courses have, understandably, become very possible. In addition, we are currently considering a more intensive live, online experience (e.g., fours hour per day over two days for each course). If that is something you are interested in learning more about, please contact us.
Diversity Certification refers to the credentialing of professionals to serve in management or executive level diversity and inclusion leadership roles.
