Inclusive Leadership Professional Certificate

In this course, you will learn about the business case for diversity and inclusion, the dimensions of diversity, and the traits of an inclusive leader. You will be asked to assess your own openness and unconscious biases and gain insights into your strengths and opportunities for targeted growth on selected inclusive leadership skill dimensions. You’ll learn to value differences, challenge false assumptions, and begin to exercise moral courage.

In this course, you will learn to develop skills for one-on-one inclusion strategies, including emotional intelligence, emphatic listening, and how to conduct positive, crucial conversations. You’ll learn about the roles that mentoring and sponsoring play, and how to become an ally by utilizing the four pillars of allyship. You’ll also learn how to identify and respond to microaggressions and about the role that trust, fairness, and consistency play in an inclusive mindset.

In this course, you will learn to lead high-performing inclusive teams, relying on principles such as empowerment, accountability, and collaboration. You’ll learn why team members engage and how to recognize patterns of disengagement. You’ll formulate strategies to create and enhance team psychological safety, understand personal conflict management styles and choices, and be able to diagnose interpersonal conflict to determine the underlying causes and best strategies for a given situation.

In this course, you will learn to identify systemic and unconscious bias in employee selection programs, embrace strategies for inclusive recruitment and selection, minimize bias in performance reviews. You’ll also learn about strategies to reduce the gender pay gap, and how to create and implement diversity scorecard specific to your organization. You’ll also present the results of your Action Learning Project.