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Program Overview

The purpose of the Certified Diversity Professional (CDP) Program is to provide participants with a framework for transforming an organization into an engaged, productive, and inclusive workforce. You will learn to manage diversity, develop a strategic plan, onboard difficult people, and drive organizational inclusion. This program will help you assess your current cultural competency and demonstrate how to increase competency. By the end of this seminar, you will have learned how to:

  • Use an organizational change approach in planning how to increase inclusion.
  • Assess an organization’s inclusion barriers.
  • Complete the steps in the design, development, and implementation of a strategic plan
  • Use a set of techniques for onboarding stakeholders to create sustainable inclusion programs

Goals
Upon completion of the course, participants will:
  • Understand the organizational inclusion change process
  • Develop a rationale for the inclusion plan
  • Understand how to use a Balanced Scorecard in the planning process.
  • Utilize the content to build a plan.

Format:
There are three formats for completing the CDP:
(1) Online (DELA 100B & DELA 300B) Use the links to learn more about the course.
(2) Four-day classroom (DELA 100A) [Reserved for clients with eight or more participants];
(3) Blended version (DELA 300B online and attending the last two days of the DELA 100A classroom training).

Classroom
  • 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 successfully completing the training.

Requirements
  • The course takes place over four days of classroom training
  • Three online modules must be completed before the beginning of the classroom training
  • May require travel

Online
  • 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

Resources/Materials
A participant manual (created by DTUI) is provided to each student. The cost is included in the registration fee.

Participant Success Story
I started working with DTUI after the CEO of the company I work for recruited me to serve as the first cultural diversity leader. I did not know anything about the position or responsibilities. Luckily, I found DTUI. I got so much value out of the program that I received the title Vice President of Diversity and a large salary increase. I owe it to the work I did with Dr. Billy Vaughn and DTUI.

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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.

Fannie Summers
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.

Robert Fox
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.

Annette Black
Felicia Ross

Thank you so much for your support and for sharing your knowledge...quite valuable!.

Jerome Bell
Laura Montiel

Still Have Any Questions?

Check out the FAQs.

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.

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