Webinar: Board diversity and inclusion workshop

Build strong diversity practices for your board

Board Diversity & Inclusion is an interactive workshop to equip board members with tools to create a culture that actively embraces a spectrum of voices and lived experiences.

In this half-day workshop, program participants learn key concepts and strategies for creating diversity on their board.

Is this workshop right for you?

This workshop is for not-for-profit board members and Executive Directors who want to increase diversity and inclusion in their board but are not sure where to start.

Benefits

This three-hour workshop equips participants with:

• Skills and tools to bring diversity and inclusion practices into their boards
• Processes to encourage diversity and inclusion through recruitment, open meetings, planning, and engagement
• Develop self-awareness and knowledge about diversity, inclusion and the impact of privilege on not-for-profit governance and leadership

Learning Objectives

• Identify the benefits to their community in creating more diversity
• Build confidence in using strategies to engage more diversity
• Apply skills to embrace diversity across teams in their community organization
• Recognize cultural competency challenges in their organization and identify steps required to build and sustain diversity and inclusion actions in their work
• Lead conversations about diversity and inclusion in their organizations

Topics covered

• Benefits of creating a diverse and inclusive board
• Key concepts: diversity, inclusion, and privilege
• First/next steps in creating an inclusive culture
• Developing and integrating diversity/inclusion into board/organizational policies