This highly interactive session creates a safe space for leaders to learn to lead with greater empathy and allyship for people with underrepresented identities across the organization.

Based on Melinda’s popular TED talk and new book, How to Be an Ally, this interactive workshop provides actionable steps leaders can take to be better allies and advocates for people with underrepresented identities in their workplaces.

To build empathy and understanding, we discuss barriers and exclusion people with underrepresented identities often experience, such as tokenism, impostor syndrome, stereotype threat, microaggressions, marginalization, and systemic inequities. Then, we focus on solutions: exploring ways to avoid unintentionally offending or harming people, identifying and interrupting biases and microaggressions, developing a deeper understanding of how to lead with empathy, and committing to tangible, actionable steps to be better allies and advocates in the workplace.

In this workshop, leaders deepen their understanding of allyship for women with intersectional identities across race, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQIA+, and more. By the end of the session, participants commit to one another to taking specific actions as leaders.

Speaker
Melinda Briana Epler, Change Catalyst, Founder & CEO