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Leadership and Excellence In Diversity:Sustaining the Diversity Movement in

Changing Times

Presenter: Lonney F GregoryModerator: Gloria PualaniPanelist: Angela ThompkinsPanelist : Bonita Volcy

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What is this? Why is this important?

Because It’s Complex



And so is Making Inroads in Diversity & Inclusion



Session Objectives1. Explore business challenges and stressors that

impact our leaders2. Examine what it means to transform organizational

culture3. Explore key diversity & inclusion leadership and

management behaviors and skills4. Create a plan for excellence in diversity and

inclusion leadership5. Describe strategies for building the right

leadership brand and image



Inclusion Defined:DICTIONARY

The action or state of including or of being included within a group or structure.Include: comprise or contain as part of a whole.

IN ORGANIZATIONSAll employees feel as though they belong, accepted for who and how they are, and valued for their uniqueness.Employees are recognized for their commitment and energy towards the organization.Whole What?



Complicated V. Complex

Complicated systems have many moving parts, but they operate in patterned predictable ways by design.

Complex systems are imbued with features that may operate in patterned ways, by design, but whose interactions are continually changing in relationship to context.

Complicated

Complex

InterdependenceMultiplicityDiversity

Many InputVaried OutputsControllableFixed Behaviors



Characteristics of a Complex Adaptive SystemSelf-organizing Non-linearity Order/chaos dynamic Emergence

• A complex adaptive system is a system made up of many individual parts or agents.

• The individual parts, or agents, in a complex adaptive system follow simple rules.

• There is no [single] leader or individual who is coordinating the action of [all] others.

• Through the interactions of the agents emergent patterns are generated. • When elements of the system are altered, the system adapts or reacts.



What about these Agents and Stressors

Patterns

Regularities

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What Business Challenges



Culture Resides Here

Culture

People

Processes Policies

Vision Strategies

Goals Pressures

History

Unwritten Rules

How thingsReally get done

Stories

TraditionsValues

Perception

FeelingsBeliefs

Culture is the result of a complex group learning process

The Leadership Dilemma



Change

“IT’S THE TRANSITION, NOT THE CHANGE, THAT PEOPLE OFTEN RESIST.”

– WILLIAM BRIDGES



Change v Transition

A Process: An internal psychological reorientation

SOMETHING OLD STOPS SOMETHING NEW BEGINS

CHANGE

TRANSITION

Event Based



This Why Inclusion Is So Hard

Adapted from: Leading Strategic Change: Breaking Through the Brain Barrier, J. Stuart Black and Hal Gregersen, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2003.

Inclusive Behaviors

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D&I Leadership and Management Skills and BehaviorsTHE LEADER• Builds trust• Has an inclusive mind set• Displays transparency• Focuses on results• Specialist manager versus

a Generalist leader• Has a big picture

perspective• Has a team orientation• Values all members on

the team

THE D&I PRACTITIONER LEADERShows empathy Understand interpersonal dynamics Understands and is conversant with the theories and constructs associated with biasUnderstands complexity and systems thinking



The Plan for Excellence• Perform organizational assessments • Conduct leadership assessments and 360’s• Conduct training• Disseminate reminders – Micro-messages• Build individual management -to- employee

inclusion plans• Experiment with more drastic way to increase

inclusion• Measure and communicate



The Inclusive Leader Personal Brand Statement

Draft

Personal branding describes the process by which individuals and entrepreneurs differentiate themselves and stand out from a crowd by identifying and articulating their unique value proposition, whether professional or personal, and then leveraging it across platforms with a consistent message and image to achieve a specific goal. In this way, individuals can enhance their recognition as experts in their field, establish reputation and credibility, advance their careers, and build self-confidence.


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Inclusive Leader Personal Brand Exercise Take 2 minutes to inventory “brand qualities”

Take 2 minutes to describe your desiresTake 2 minutes to package itFind a partner and each take 1 minute to deliver your respective inclusive leader personal branding message

As a D&I professional I use my knowledge of the complexities and challenges facing my organization to deliver trusted consultation that address unconscious bias, Intersectionality, and equality. I will work empathetically and transparently to build a more inclusive organization that achieves the business results for which we all have been charged.

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