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Unlock Your Leadership Potential:
Community Leadership Program

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HEDR is excited to launch our Community Leadership Training Program in Spring 2024 – your gateway to becoming a dynamic community leader. Designed for passionate individuals ready to make a positive impact, this program aims to transform you into the mindful leader you always had the potential to be.

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learning outcomes

By the end of the program, you will be able to:

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  • Articulate what diversity, inclusion, equity, allyship, and anti-oppression mean to you

  • Use current DEI terminology and concepts 

  • Apply inclusive communication strategies (speak up for equity & inclusion, take accountability & own mistakes, and create space for others)

  • Articulate the impact of unconscious bias, privilege, and power on individuals and groups

  • Identify opportunities to practice allyship and to share your power with others

  • Develop a plan to take action on your personal commitments
     

Embark on a course of personal development, becoming a leader who considers DEI at the heart of your decision-making. Make a lasting impact on your community by leading inclusively within your organization and your community.

 

Ready to lead with purpose? Join the Community Leadership Training Program and become the catalyst for a stronger, more vibrant Halton!

OUTLINE

Module 1

The focus of this module is on creating a shared foundation for the program:

  • What is DEI? Why does it matter? How does it benefit organizations? 

  • Intention versus Impact

  • basic DEI terminology, definitions, and table stakes for this conversation

  • In Live Session: setting Personal Impact Goals 

 

Module 2:

The focus of this module is on individual actions that support allyship:

  • power & structural power

  • privilege & disadvantage - what is it and how does it work?

  • identity & diversity

  • intersectionality & why it matters

  • In Live Session: self-audit, self-reflection, and open Q&A discussion (all questions welcome)

 

Module 3

The focus of this module is on interpersonal actions that support allyship:

  • introduction to 3 allyship skills to increase inclusion (speak up, own mistakes, and create space for others)

  • In Live Session: skill practice, Personal Impact Goals action plan, and accountability setting

 

Module 4

The focus of this module is on becoming aware of structural power at work:​​

  • structural inequity & complicity in the status quo

  • unconscious bias

  • where do we go from here?

  • In Live Session: unconscious bias exercise & beginning work with the HEDR Organizational Assessment Tool

 

Module 5

The focus in this module is on understanding power structures in the workplace:

  • 4 more ways of holding/sharing power in a workplace

  • where is power located in my organization? & how do I fix what's broken?

  • introduction to the data-driven DEI work of Lily Zheng (they/them)

  • In Live Session: power map exercise and continuing work with the HEDR Organizational Assessment Tool

 

Module 6

The focus in this module is on structural actions that support allyship:

  • 6 successful case studies of actions organizations took to reach their DEI goals

  • In Live Session: sharing their own case studies, revisiting Impact goals, & creating an organizational action plan

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