Course Description
Engaging in important conversations about race and gender can be fraught with sensitivity. This course is designed to provide you with the tools to develop the right mindset, improve your skillset, and create the right environment for these conversations to happen.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Recognize how your mindset affects your approach to a conversation.
- Identify skills to learn and practice, including perspective taking, reframing, and direct-speak.
- Identify ways to create an ideal environment for productive engagement.
Duration: 62 minutes
Speaker
Jodi Dejten is an organizational consultant and educator. Her mission is to help organizations leverage their talent strategically by increasing inclusion as soon as possible. In addition to being Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Orange Grove Consulting, Jodi is Clinical Professor of Management at Suffolk University. She has spent her career transforming the way people work and designs top-tier women’s leadership programs. She has consulted and run workshops for clients such as Accenture, Microsoft Partners and Oracle. She is co-author of the book, The Orange Line: A Woman’s Guide to Integrating Career, Family, and Life. Her upcoming book on building inclusive workplaces will be published February 2021. Jodi earned her B.Sc. from Virginia Tech, her MA from Duke University and is currently pursuing her Doctorate at Temple University.