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Rotman Inclusion by Design

Innovate for equity, diversity, and inclusion inside your organization with evidence, behavioural insights, and business design. In partnership with the Institute for Gender and the Economy.

Rotman brings a new approach to designing inclusive workplaces.

Creating an inclusive environment is a top priority for most organizations today. However, despite system wide attempts to improve inclusion, there has been little tangible progress and poorly designed interventions have even resulted in unintended consequences. For example, some organizations that implemented mandatory diversity training had 6% fewer black women in management positions after five years. At the individual level, backlash effects can occur if trainees resent being selected for diversity training and view training as punishment for prior insensitive behaviour. 

"As hard as we've worked to change stereotypes, they remain the same. What we need now is a hard look at the design of our systems. And there's no one-size-fits-all. We need to identify specific entrenched processes and structures that bake bias into our organizations– and remove them,"
Sonia Kang, Canada Research Chair in Identity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and GATE Research Fellow »

 

To be successful, inclusion interventions need to be user-centric, easy to adopt and evidence-based. By understanding barriers to inclusion from a user-centric lens, we can better design policies and process that actually work. 

Apply NowNOV 19-21 and 26-28, 2023 | $5,250 CAD + HST

 

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Schedule

The First of Its Kind

There are breakthroughs available at the intersection of behavioural insights, data analytics and design thinking. 

Grounded in breakthrough research from Rotman’s Institute for Gender and the Economy, Inclusion By Design combines the latest in inclusion research, behavioural insights, design, and data analysis to help you design strategies that can improve diversity and inclusion in your organization. 

This program includes:
  • Why current initiatives fail 
  • Real data on which practices work and which don't 
  • Workshops on live challenges 
  • Hands-on exercises designing new initiatives

Inclusion by Design is for leaders looking for disruptive ways to design, implement, and evaluate inclusion practices that actually work for your organization and context. Whether it's hiring, retention, or compensation, a new approach can help you move past acceptance to true inclusion so you can better engage, energize, inspire, and benefit from diversity with greater success.  

What You Can Expect


Flexible Learning Design

Don't feel alone while you learn online. We've designed this program to respect both the current challenges of working from home while maintaining and building connections with a class of your peers across different industries and organizations. You'll still enjoy the networking and learning benefits of our in-class programs while learning from the comfort of your own home with a schedule adapted to your current needs. In this virtual real-time experience, you'll develop trust, rapport, and inspired action with your colleagues.

 



Application Process

Payment and Fee Reduction


Interested in more? Apply for our Gender Analytics: Inclusive Product and Service Innovation program.

 


HPRA Seal This program has been approved for 21 CPD hours under Section A of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Log of the Human Resource Professionals Association (HRPA).


This program can count towards earning your Excellence in Executive Leadership certificate. Join an elite circle of leaders building their own path to professional development and receive official recognition from the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management.

 


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Dates and fees

6 half-day sessions over 2 weeks

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Dates:

November 19-21 and 26-28, 2024

Class times:
1:00 pm - 4:30pm Eastern

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Location:
Online

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Participant profile:
Diversity and Inclusion experts, Human Resource professionals, and leaders looking to build inclusive teams and practices

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Fee:
$5,250 CAD + HST

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In partnership with Rotman's Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE)


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Inclusion by design: four Rotman experts on how to create better workplaces »

By now, the case for inclusion has been made: workplaces that embrace diverse perspectives and make employees feel like part of a cohesive team thrive. Inclusion is a win-win game, plain and simple.