Inclusive Leadership

Our offering for 2025

Half Day Sessions

Leading in Colour

This session aims to:

  • Highlight the urgency of coming off the touchline and leading the action to combat racism within the workplace and for local people now
  • Set out the direct and personal challenge to leaders
  • Offer an approach to hearing staff voices and views
  • Provide emerging learning from what’s happening right now
  • Provide a brief overview of multidimensional racism and gives insights into understanding and addressing the local impact of multi-dimensional racism
  • Look at the Cultural Competence model and how it works for individuals, organisations and communities
  • Explore the moral imperative and organisational benefits of promoting and sustaining a diverse environment and an inclusive culture …and the steps you can take to achieve both
  • Encourage reflection, starting with self, questioning ‘what’s it like to be a white leader?’ and then go on to explain why this is so upfront, so personal and so urgent
Leading in colour: the fierce urgency of NOW

Let's talk about Race and Culture

This session aims to:

  • Facilitate and support a deeper understanding of the concepts of ‘Race’, multi-dimensional racism and the lens of intersectionality when looking at discrimination affecting staff and communities
  • Enable exploration of the fluidity of language about race and understand the different perspectives that exist
  • Learn how Cultural Competence can be used at a personal, practitioner and organisational level to improve practice with culturally diverse communities and support the Workforce Race Equality Standards in the workplace
  • Explore the qualities of inclusive organisations and the conditions for them to thrive
  • Highlight any areas for further development for staff

Cultural Competency

This session aims to:

  • Help colleagues understand what cultural competence is and how it: supports continuous learning and development for all staff, can be used promote more inclusive organisations and dovetails to Workforce Race Equality Standards (WRES) and Integrated Care Systems (ICS)
  • Demonstrate the relevance of Cultural Competence to organisations, communities and to you
  • Consider where you think your organisation’s level of cultural competence is currently and begin to understand your own personal level of cultural competence
  • Provide a brief introduction of issues highlighted by COVID-19 & Black Lives Matter
  • Explore the fluidity of terminology around ‘race’ and other narratives like ‘woke’, ‘cancel culture’
  • Use the concept of intersectionality to consider all those with Protected Characteristics and wider groups

 

These sessions will be tailored to align with your particular area of development or context

90 Minute Sessions

Book Clubs

The book clubs offer a guided/facilitated approach to reading and considering the learning at a personal, organisational and/or at partnership level. key learning themes and actions presented back after the sessions are complete.

Global Majority Leadership Imbalance – Global Majority Leaders Missing in Action

  • Explore the barriers and obstacles faced by Global Majority aspiring leaders
  • Reflect on tackling social capital to avoid affinity bias
  • Consider the added value of Global Majority leaders and global leadership paradigms

Cultural Competence – Promoting leadership and organisational change

  • Explore what Cultural Competence is
  • Add the lens of intersectionality
  • Introduce how Cultural Competency can support inclusive organisations, the WRES and Integrated Care Systems
  • Help understand psychological safety V psychological self-protection
  • Explore a coherence of leadership values, behaviours and actions

Leading in Colour: The Fierce Urgency of NOW

  • Exploring how primarily white leaders, partners and politicians can understand, build and sustain changes to tackle racism
  • Reflecting on COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter
  • Questions designed to support leaders in moving their thinking and actions forward
  • Curated resources to read, listen or watch

Review, Reflect and Action

Key learning themes and actions presented back after the sessions are complete

1 Hour Session

Tackling Racism

This session aims to:

  • Explore the fluidity of language helping colleagues to get comfortable with it Consider the Colour of Power Highlight the Barriers faced by Global Majority leaders and aspiring leaders, what they can bring
  • Consider the challenges and opportunities of 2024
  • Understand how multi-dimensional racism affects young people, families and staff
  • Introduce Cultural Competence for organisations, workers, communities
  • Discuss allyship and how to move from Bystander to Upstander

Please contact the Inclusive Leadership team at [email protected] for a quote