Secrets from the DEI Leadership Labs

Anima Leadership created leader labs for BIPOC and white leaders to develop their leadership skills. Here are some of the secrets we learned from the 2023 Leader Labs.

Why Brave Conversations are an Essential Part of an Inclusive Workplace

Changing harmful patterns, especially around race, means doing something that can be terrifying: stepping bravely into difficult conversations around race. Learn some tips and tricks for taking on these brave conversations with equity training support from Anima Leadership.

What DEI Means: A Harm Reduction Approach

If we try to reframe EDI work through a harm reduction approach, we can acknowledge the difficulty in totally eradicate all harm or micro-aggressions while also focusing on reducing the harm we cause to others and ourselves.

Define Implicit Bias: It’s not Good or Bad, Just Human

Our brains naturally do a miraculous job of helping us move through the world by quickly processing information to make sense of our surroundings, remember subtle details and identify helpful patterns. But that means that sometimes in our minds, someone’s identity speaks before they do.

Dear Canada

I think sometimes of my ex-homeland with fondness, and other times with longing, but most of me is now rooted here. I don’t know if I can say thank you for taking me in. I have also given everything I have to you.

Why collect demographic data?

An EDI audit is a question-based measurement tool that analyzes your organization’s EDI strengths and weaknesses based on real employee data.

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