Learning Labs, Transformative Experiences 

Most participants will tell you that the world is never the same after one of White Men as Full Diversity Partners Learning Labs.

These are transformative experiences designed to make companies more competitive, leaders more effective, and every individual, regardless of gender, ethnicity, perspective or culture, more willing and able to partner with each other.

Each lab is a three-and-a half day residential experience that feels both comfortable and challenging, validating and eye-opening. Each is a powerful catalyst for helping leaders and individual contributors examine their assumptions about themselves and others. They provide the unique opportunity to see the world – and oneself – through new eyes.

Offered and refined for more than 15 years, our learning labs and workshops include:

• White Men and Allies

• Women of Different Tribes

• White Men’s Caucus

We also conduct customized labs for both intact teams and for senior leaders or managers spread across business units. Combined with follow-up consulting and coaching, these labs motivate and assist leaders in identifying and taking courageous actions as full diversity partners.

White Men and Allies®

Designed to help participants deepen partnerships to create inclusive, creative and responsive organizations. Participants develop the critical leadership skills needed to succeed in today's complex and changing workplace. This Learning Lab is a three-and-a-half day residential learning lab for organizational teams of two or more individuals. Each team, consisting of a mixture of white men, white women, and men and women of color, is intentionally formed so that upon returning to work, they will work together as partners within their organization’s ongoing diversity efforts. We recommend that white men, when possible, first attend the White Men’s Caucus.
    
Combining videos, group discussions, personal reflection and other experiential activities, the White Men and Allies Learning Lab empowers participants to:

• Understand more about how systemic racism, sexism, heterosexism and classism operate as systemic advantage in their work, community and personal life
• Become more conscious of how their own behavior may unintentionally reinforce these unproductive dynamics
• Identify new options for interrupting systemic advantage and for being a more effective partner across difference at work and in other interactions 
• Examine and better understand American white male culture and its impact on all people – white men, white women, and people of color

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Women of Different Tribes™

What unites us . . . what divides us: A Women’s Caucus. This is a workshop for women focusing on cross-racial and cross-cultural leadership and partnership skill development.

The statistics are sobering. Women make up 31% of the official labor force in developing countries and 46.7% worldwide. In most countries - even in this era - women work approximately twice the unpaid time men do. The majority of women, on average, outside of the agricultural sector, earn about three-fourths of the pay of males for the same work, in both developed and developing countries.

In the Women of Different Tribes Caucus, we enable a new and much-needed kind of conversation. It is a conversation more powerful than research, committees and conferences on women at work. Here, women have the opportunity to talk to each other about how we value each other – or not – and what we can do through our leadership to shift our individual and collective realities. Women will explore the impact of their roles at work and the partnerships they create with women and men in support of women’s business, professional and personal goals.

We invite all women to attend this workshop, whether you have been at the helm of a large organization for many years or are just starting your leadership journey. The experience is sure to be not only energizing, but also transformative in your daily life as leader, partner and unique individual.    

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White Men's Caucus®

The focus of the White Men’s Caucus is to assist white men in becoming full diversity partners within their organizations, which means motivating them to have the commitment to lead with courage to eliminate racism, sexism and homophobia in the workplace.

This caucus acts to significantly raise awareness and understanding among white men so they can actively participate in creating more inclusive working environments. This intensive learning process assists men in understanding not only the moral imperative, but also the bottom line value of an inclusive organizational culture.

Participants will:

• Gain a systemic perspective and understanding of the costs of racism, sexism, heterosexism, oppression and unexamined privilege
• Recognize themselves as both individuals and as members of the white male group
• Become a more committed and active partner in organizational diversity efforts
• Learn to create supportive systems that enhance learning and inclusion
• Depart with specific personal and professional action plans

The White Men’s Caucus is a complement to the White Men and Allies Learning Lab. We encourage white men to consider participating in a White Men’s Caucus and then joining a colleague who is a white woman or person of color at a subsequent White Men and Allies Learning Lab.

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