Empowering Change: Advancing Diversity in Collaboratives

In today’s demanding and ever-moving nonprofit and community sector, fostering trust, championing equity and supporting marginalized voices in collaborative settings has never been more critical for leaders working together. This workshop aims to empower you to build on your efforts to create inclusive and brave spaces, broaden and deepen your decision-making circles, celebrate and uplift diverse perspectives, and make a lasting impact on collective efforts through inclusive and adaptive leadership practices.

By embracing diversity, leaders are better equipped to enact meaningful change, cultivate organizations that are innovative, and support collaborations and Collective Impact initiatives that are authentically representative of the communities they work with. Leading diverse groups requires trust and empathy, and can lead to teams that offer multiple perspectives, increase your ability to enhance understanding of intersecting, systemic barriers, enhance your strategic engagement with systems of power, and can ultimately reshape your knowledge of the origins and implications of various forms of oppression.

Innovation is always amplified by our efforts as leaders to foster and sustain diverse and brave openings for dialogue, co-design and knowledge of co-creation.

Gain an understanding of strategies for recruiting diverse talent to leadership positions and fostering ongoing support for diverse perspectives through a unified and inclusive agenda.

Build capacity, workplace structures, and culture that will allow for effective collaboration across diverse partnerships

Foster trust with those most impacted by systemic marginalization, ensuring they have meaningful opportunities to voice their perspectives and shape decisions that impact their lives

Design and implement an equitable compensation framework that offers reciprocity and acknowledgment of the lived experience and labour being offered

Move to action and maintain a connection to a larger equity-centred vision

Co-create appropriate leadership tools and practice improvements