Creating a great organization isn’t just about breaking down cultural barriers. It’s about building a workplace where everyone works towards a common purpose; feels a sense of belonging (not a sense of longing to be), and feels included despite title, rank, or position. Inclusive leaders understand people do not leave jobs; they leave people. Today’s inclusive leaders believe not only in investing in themselves, but encouraging others to grow, to learn, and to build inclusivity and trust. Why? To breakdown silos, foster employee engagement, encourage open lines of communication, promote creativity, offer a safe place to land, and create a healthy, happy, and inspiring workplace.

Key takeaways:

• Psychological safety is the key to belonging and inclusion at the workplace.
• Microaggressions: Intention and impact.
• Constructive, continuous, influential, inclusive, and solution-based feedback.
• Death by meeting: Five key steps to inclusive and effective meetings.
• Tokenism takes a toll: Why optical allyship is damaging.
• Negative Nellie and nasty Ned: How to actively listen, include, and empathize to change negative behaviours at work.