Deep Diversity — Leadership Training for Inclusive Credit Unions

For credit unions wanting to stay relevant and productive, creating a functionally diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace is a must. Understanding how systemic discrimination threatens fairness and morale in both overt and subtle ways is critical to such initiatives. This ground-breaking, trauma-informed training process will develop key leadership knowledge and skills to support workplace inclusion and equity in the credit union sector, as outlined in Deep Diversity: A Compassionate, Scientific Approach to Racial Justice. This course covers four key modules of bias, emotions, identity and power

You will learn:

• Leadership competencies for diversity champions with a focus on emotional literacy including skill development in self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy and relationship management;
• How to apply the Deep Diversity® framework to help uncover systemic discrimination patterns within organizations with regards to race/ethnicity specifically, and social identity broadly;
• How unconscious bias results in mistreatment of people of minority groups in organizations and the importance of developing bias detection and reduction skills;
• What gets in the way of establishing a diverse organization that is inclusive of, and equitable for, all people regardless of identity or background;
• Where your organization is at and where it wants to go using the unique measurement tool: the Deep Diversity® Inclusive Workplace Continuum: Organizational Practices