Inclusive Leadership Academy

Unlock your potential as an inclusive leader! Inclusive leadership helps organizations and teams to thrive during challenging times by building safety, belonging, and resilience among diverse teams. This intimate, cohort-based program provides leaders with the confidence, skills, and knowledge to take their leadership skills to the next level. Our human-centered, peer learning approach allows for mutual exchange and trust-building, enabling exploration of inclusive leadership topics that touch our daily lives. Participants will access proven, practical tools for engagement that can be implemented to increase individual and organizational well-being and support and sustain real change.

Why Successful Leaders are Inclusive Leaders:

• Inclusive leaders unlock the individual potential of team members and the collective power of teams.
• Inclusive leadership helps organizations and teams to thrive during times of change by increasing trust, safety, and resilience.
• Leaders who implement inclusive leadership strategies report a profound shift in their own work culture—some of which include improved performance and higher engagement from team members, greater appreciation for diverse perspectives, and increased unity and sense of belonging among employees.

Curriculum:

1. Your Inclusive Leadership Journey
2. DEI Foundations: The Building Blocks of Inclusive Leadership
3. Overcoming Barriers to Inclusion (discrimination, implicit bias, microaggressions, resistance to DEI)
4. Creating Cultures of Belonging (psychological safety, transparency, and practical strategies for building diverse & inclusive boards/organizational cultures)
5. Strategies for Wellbeing (work/life balance, boundaries, difficult conversations & conflict resolution)
6. Sustaining Real Change During Difficult Times

Learning Objectives:

• Learn the principles of inclusive leadership and how to embed them in your work at the individual and organizational levels.
• Increase awareness of individual identity, social location, privilege, and power and their roles in shaping how we lead.
• Increase leaders capacity to address common DEI barriers, such bias and microaggressions, and how these factors impact performance, engagement, and retention.
• Learn how to create and sustain organizational structures that foster belonging, safety, equity, and inclusion.
• Refine skills to model inclusive behavior and develop your own inclusive leadership action plan.

Details and Logistics:

• $750 early bird (March 12 – April 2) and $795 regular registration (April 3 – April 23)
• (6) 3 hour sessions via Zoom
• Meeting frequency will be monthly. Specific dates will be determined by the group’s availability.
• First meeting: Tuesday, April 30 at 9-12pm CT
• Who can participate? Organizational leaders
• Limited to 12 registrants

Statement of Values:

We strive to empower leaders’ courageous engagement in this academy so that they may better serve their organizations and communities. In recruiting for this academy, we seek to foster the intentional inclusion of people of all races, abilities, nationalities, religions, ages, socioeconomic statuses, sexualities, gender identities/expressions, and beliefs. Systems of power, privilege, and oppression have traditionally created barriers for persons and groups with particular identities, ages, abilities, and histories. This academy aims to replace such barriers with ever-widening circles of inclusion, equity, and mutual respect.

Meet the Facilitator:

Dr. Elisa Glick (she/her) is a diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging consultant, speaker, coach, educator, and award-winning educator with over 20 years experience in higher education. As the Founder and President of Elisa Glick Consulting, she helps leaders put inclusion into action and succeed in an increasingly diverse world. Elisa is the founder of the innovative Faculty Institute for Inclusive Teaching at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has expertise in creating DEI and antiracist curricula, facilitating diversity trainings, and developing and implementing inclusive teaching programming. Her teaching and academic publications on LGBTQ+ Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Black Studies speak to her commitment to social justice. After retiring in 2023, Elisa was awarded the title Associate Professor Emerita in recognition of the many contributions she made to the University of Missouri during her tenure. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Brown University.