Rotman Enabling Impact Through Inclusive Leadership online program
Learn how to promote inclusivity by investigating how your own identity and privilege influence your approach to leadership.
Organizational commitment to the work of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) requires a practical set of tools to help turn good intentions into meaningful actions.
The Rotman Enabling Impact Through Inclusive Leadership online program helps you formulate effective diversity and inclusion strategies and provides a sound understanding of how to practice inclusive leadership. Guided by Professor Nouman Ashraf and a range of subject matter experts, you’ll develop the awareness needed to appreciate the impact of each team member’s unique culture. By learning to leverage your strengths, you’ll enable constructive engagement through day-to-day practices that highlight cultural contribution and gain the practical skills needed to build equitable, diverse, and inclusive environments for your organization.
Apply NowOngoing offerings | $2,500 CAD + HST
Key program takeaways:
- Develop as an empathetic and grounded leader focused on creating an equitable, diverse, and inclusive culture
- Learn the importance of self-reflection, and the role it plays in being an effective and supportive ally
- Leverage advanced practical tools to determine whether your organizational culture is fit for purpose
- Understand the role Cultural Fluency plays both in organizational culture and in your leadership approach to various situations
What you'll learn
ORIENTATION MODULE: Welcome to your Online Campus
Meet and engage with your learning and peer networks as you navigate the Online Campus.
Module 1 Leveraging your leadership self
Engage in a process of deep discovery that connects your understanding of self to your approach to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) as a leader.
Module 2 Establishing the connection between personal identity and organizational impact through behavioural empathy
Explore the intersecting vectors of identity and understand how they impact experience to develop your behavioural empathy and promote inclusive organizational outcomes.
Module 3 Uncovering the three dimensions of inclusive leadership
Learn how leadership occurs in the personal, interpersonal, and organizational dimensions and how an awareness of these dimensions can contribute to addressing roadblocks to engagement.
Module 4 Acknowledging privilege and embracing the path to impactful allyship
Explore how to embrace impactful allyship and leverage your privilege in service of others within an organizational context.
Module 5 Deciphering and reshaping organizational reality
Learn how to focus organizational attention on engagement using the Attitude Spectrum tool.
Module 6 Living out Cultural Fluency as a leader day-to-day
Deepen your impact through the practice of Cultural Fluency in three dimensions.
Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during program development.
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Rotman faculty are able to translate the latest research into practical applications for the workplace and transmit skills to participants with up-to-date teaching techniques. Industry leaders contribute to our programs to bring you the most up-to-date best practices and a wealth of real-world experience.
Nouman Ashraf
Associate Professor, Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources; Inaugural Director, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Nouman possesses a broad range of professional, academic, and research interests, with a specialized focus on enabling inclusive and innovative practices within teams, organizations, and boards. For the last decade and a half, he has held progressively senior roles at the University of Toronto, including most recently as the director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the Rotman School of Management. Nouman serves as a teaching fellow at the Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE), as an associate at Trinity College within the University of Toronto, and as an affiliated faculty member at the University of Toronto School of Cities.
He is a recognized thought leader in governance and has taught thousands of directors in the national Rotman program on Not for Profit Governance in partnership with the Institute for Corporate Directors since its inception in 2007.
Apply NowOngoing offerings | $2,500 CAD + HST
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