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Difficult Conversations about Race & Gender: Building the Skills for Productive Engagement




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.

ACCREDITATION INFORMATION
This course offers 0.10 CEUs / 1.0 PDH. To receive CEU/PDH, the course must be viewed in its entirety in addition to completing the knowledge check with an 80%.

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The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500, McLean, VA 22102; (703) 506-3275. In obtaining this approval, the SWE has demonstrated that it complies with the ANSI/IACET 1-2018 Standard which is recognized internationally as a standard of good practice. As a result of their Authorized Provider membership status, SWE is authorized to offer IACET CEUs for its programs that qualify under the ANSI/IACET 1-2018 Standard.