EDI Lab for White Leaders – A Community of Practice (2025)

Description

For our systems to thrive in the twenty-first century, we need educated, racially literate leaders who have the tools to cultivate equitable environments and professional standards. This community of practice is designed to help a small cohort of up to twenty-five white leaders develop fluency in equity, diversity, and inclusion. Through monthly sessions, you will learn to move from  “I don’t see colour” to “I understand how racism has impacted my own leadership and organization and I have strategies to assist in its undoing”.

You will explore:

• How whiteness norms are unconsciously perpetuated in organizational contexts;
• How to explore and decode whiteness as a racial category versus white cultural norms;
• What it takes to develop equity literacy and develop your fluency in a community of like-minded peers;
• To move beyond enacting traditional racial scripts to authentic relationship-building;
• How to access equity in your team/program area/organization and how to take steps forward from diversity to inclusion to belonging.

Program includes:

• Ten Monthly virtual teaching and coaching sessions (Jan. to Dec. minus July/Aug);
• Customized readings and reflection questions;
• Opportunities for peer support and brainstorming solutions to common conflicts;
• Access to an anti-racist leadership community of practice.