Inclusive Leadership Development: Dei Skills For Managers
 

Build bias-aware, psychologically safe teams with practical DEI tools for communication, hiring, policies, and allyship.
What you'll learn
Define diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and apply them to team decisions and culture.
Spot common unconscious biases and use structured tools to reduce bias in hiring and performance reviews.
Build psychological safety using inclusive communication, meeting design, and feedback practices.
Demonstrate allyship through advocacy, amplification, and sponsoring underrepresented talent.
Lead diverse and hybrid teams with cultural intelligence, empathy, and emotionally intelligent conflict skills.
Requirements
There are no prerequisites for this course
Description
Think your team is "diverse enough" on paper-but the same voices dominate meetings, great people disengage, and turnover stays high?
That gap between diversity and real inclusion is costing organizations time, talent, and performance.
Consider a few data points
• Teams with inclusive leaders are 17% more likely to perform well, 20% more likely to make high-quality decisions, and 29% more likely to collaborate effectively (Deloitte).
• 83% of Gen Z candidates say a company's DEI stance influences where they choose to work.
• Google's Project Aristotle found psychological safety to be the #1 factor behind high-performing teams.
So the question becomes: are you leading in a way that consistently activates everyone's talent-or only the people most comfortable speaking up?
Inclusive Leadership Development is designed to help you move from good intentions to clear, repeatable leadership behaviors that create belonging, fairness, and high performance.
In this course, you'll learn how to
• Understand DEI clearly (diversity vs. equity vs. inclusion) and apply it to everyday leadership
• Use research-backed frameworks (Deloitte's Six C's and Catalyst's EACH model) to assess and grow your leadership
• Identify unconscious bias in hiring, feedback, and promotion decisions-and use practical "bias interrupters"
• Strengthen empathy and emotional intelligence to build trust across differences
• Lead with cultural intelligence (CQ) in global, multi-generational, and hybrid teams
• Communicate inclusively, share airtime, and build psychological safety in meetings and 1:1s
• Address microaggressions and tough moments with clarity, respect, and accountability
• Implement inclusive systems: equitable hiring, development pathways, ERG partnerships, policies, and metrics
• Practice real allyship-knowing when to stand up, stand beside, and stand back
• Learn from a real-world case study (Miovision) showing how inclusion can transform culture and results
By the end, you'll have practical language, tools, and routines you can use immediately-so inclusion isn't a "DEI initiative," it's simply how you lead.
If you manage people (or influence how work gets done), this course will help you build teams where more people speak up, contribute fully, and choose to stay.
Who this course is for
New and aspiring people managers
Team leads, supervisors, and department heads
HR professionals and talent acquisition/recruiting leaders
DEI champions, ERG leaders, and inclusion council members
Project managers leading cross-functional teams
Remote/hybrid team leaders working across time zones and cultures
Executives and senior leaders who want accountable, practical inclusion systems
Individual contributors who want to increase their leadership influence and inclusive impact