Courageous Allyship: Learn How to Build Inclusive Workplaces

Be a Leader who Supports Colleagues from Underrepresented Groups

Created by: Dr. Priya Nalkur
Leadership Coach & Instructor

What Will I Learn?

• Identify microaggressions in the workplace and speak-up on them.
• Prepare and have productive conversations with colleagues about justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
• Create psychological safety in your workplace to foster inclusion and a sense of belonging.
• Support colleagues who feel excluded through communication behaviors like listening, responding, speaking out, and asking questions.

Requirements

• No experience needed. This course simply requires you to make a commitment to learning, noticing, naming, and doing something to build inclusion and belonging in your workplace and community.

Target audience

• Students who take this course want to understand how they can better support colleagues from underrepresented groups. They are tired of not being able to speak up or show support because of their (understandable!) fear of saying the wrong thing or, worse, hurting others or themselves. Students who take this course are aspiring allies to underrepresented groups. Students who take this course are inspired to make a difference in their place of work on behalf of historically excluded and underrepresented communities. These students want to influence change in their work cultures to be more inclusive and diverse. They want to be better leaders and they want to be part of the solution, not the problem. Students who take this course will be open minded, curious, willing to try out new ways of communicating, and positive.