Still Kicking: Investigating the Intersection of Ageism and Ableism

Speaker Ryan Backer

Worried about how your mind or body might change over time?

That’s actually ableism, not ageism.

Why does it matter? Because we age well not by denying those changes, but by adapting to them.

In this webinar you will learn (Learning Objectives)

  • The difference between ageism and ableism.
  • How ageism and ableism intersect and reinforce each other.
  • Why it’s so important to dismantle the dread and dual stigma of ageism and ableism.

About the Speakers: Ryan Backer and Kelly Durden Posey

Ryan Backer

Ryan is an age activist, public speaker, and ‘old person in training’. They are aiming to eradicate ageism intersectionally.

Kelly Durden Posey

Kelly is the founder of Inspired Inclusivity Consulting. With over 14 years of experience as an attorney, HR Professional, and educator, and a wealth of experience advocating for the LGBTQ+ community, Kelly provides tangible, actionable strategies for embracing inclusion.

A Safe Place to Talk About Race: How to Address Race and Culture in the Workplace

Speaker Sharon Davis

A Safe Place to Talk About Race: How to Address Race and Culture at Work

This webinar offers practical and real approaches to discuss and navigate the issues of race and culture in the workplace. You will discover steps and tools for more effective outcomes that help you lead with greater confidence.

You will learn:

  • Current Social Justice Issues – How to handle these at work.
  • It’s not our fault – Now, what basic definitions do we need to know?
  • Is Everything about race and culture? What’s the difference
  • Opportunities! 5 ways to respond when someone else makes mistakes.
  • Opportunities! 5+ ways to respond if you make mistakes.
  • What race and culture skills the best leaders demonstrate.

About the Speaker: Sharon Davis

Sharon Davis is a founding member of the Institute for Healing of Racism in 1987.

She has conducted International Dialogue Racism sessions in Mmabato, South Africa, and facilitated a Public Seminar on Cultural and Tribal Unity in Gabaronne, Botswana, and conflict resolution in China. She was interviewed by McNeil/Lehrer Newshour for the “Healing Racism in America” segment.

Sharon served as an International Institute and U.S Immigration Services speaker and MC at Swearing-in Ceremonies for new Americans, a regular TV panelist on “Interfaith Odyssey”, and Advisor and former Executive Director at the National Resource Center for Racial Healing which included being a Project Advisor – Diversity for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Saturn Titan Mission.

Race Matters

Speaker Cecilia Stanton Adams and Malissa Adams

This training focuses on structural racism. The trainers review the history of racism in the USA, address individual attitudes and knowledge, explore the concepts of internalized oppression and privilege, and examine how agency based and society-wide institutional arrangements implicitly or explicitly foster racism. Participants learn that they are institutional ‘‘gatekeepers’’ who can affect organizations either by acting to maintain or helping to undo racism.

Learning Objectives

  • How to unpack systemic racism.
  • How to unravel white privilege.
  • How to take steps to be an ally.
  • How to develop an action plan that can be immediately applied.

About the Presenters:

Cecilia Stanton Adams

Cecilia Stanton Adams is the CEO of Stanton Adams Consulting, LLC and is most known for her track record as an accomplished educator and Diversity thought leader. She is committed to a holistic approach to transforming organizations, teams and individuals with the principles of equity and inclusion.

Her education and over 15 years of experience in Strategic Diversity positions, she has contributed to the development of programs and services that increase representation of diversity from education, front line workers through to the highest levels of leadership.

Her visionary approach inspires others to recognize the diversity their organizations may be overlooking in: Recruitment, Retention, Training, Supplier Diversity and Community Relations.

Cecilia earned a Master’s Degree in Psychology & Sociology from Lehigh University in 2003. She also earned a Master’s Degree in Industrial Psychology from Capella University in 2009. She is currently working on earning a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and coaching from Sedona University.

Malissa Stanton Adams

Malissa is a diversity, inclusion and social equity expert. With over 15 years of experience in operations management and organizational development in the public and private sectors, Malissa understands how to motivate others and act as an effective liaison between organizations and members of under-served communities.

For the past 8 years Malissa has served as the COO of Stanton Adams Consulting, LLC. She also serves as the Housing Outreach Representative for Catholic Charities USA. In 2016 Malissa earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Rasmussen College. She is currently earning a Master’s Degree in Public & Nonprofit Administration from Metropolitan State University.

Intersectionality: Intersections of Identities

Speaker Bruce-Thao

We live in a chaotic world that is growing increasingly more complex. Human services and public agencies are finding that those we serve are facing an increasing number of challenges in their lives. Further, our organizations are facing our own internal challenges to keep up with diversity, equity and inclusion practices. This webinar will focus on the concept of intersectionality and how it can be used as a framework to better understand ourselves, our organizations, and those we serve.

The session will help participants unpack and understand their own intersections of identity at the crossroads of race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, class, religion, ability and more. From there we will dive deeper to understand how these aspects of ourselves inform both our privileges and vulnerabilities and how those inform how we serve clients, and how we show up in this world.

Webinar Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the concept of intersectionality.
  • Understand how our intersectional identities show up in the workplace and in the world.
  • Learn strategies using intersectionality to better serve our clients.

About the Presenter: Bruce Thao Bruce Thao is Founder & CEO of LIT Consulting – Lead. Inspire. Transform.

Bruce has over 12 years of experience working with diverse communities, including immigrants/ refugees, people of color and LGBTQ. Bruce brings added value to his clients through his combination of expertise in research, non-profit management, mental health & wellness, group facilitation, public policy and leadership development. He provides transformational coaching, diversity training and consulting at the intersections of race, class, gender and sexual orientation to help clients better understand how to evolve in our ever changing global landscape. His work helps leaders to show up as their best and full selves every day.

Through LIT, Bruce works with non-profits, government, academic institutions and foundations to assess and understand systems of oppression, diversity and inclusion both within and outside of the workplace, and to craft strategies to co-create new ways of thinking and working for equity. His leadership coaching focuses on empowering people of color and/or LGBTQ individuals with strategies to harness their inherent resilience and power to bring their full and best selves into the workplace and the world. Prior to his consulting work, Bruce served for 5 years as Director of Programs of a $10 million non-profit driving national policy work, research, and capacity building programs for organizations across the country. Bruce holds a B.S. and M.S. in Psychology from St. Joseph’s University, an M.A. in Social Welfare and completion of all doctoral coursework in Social Welfare from the University of Chicago. He is a 2013 Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow, a 2014 White House Champion of Change, and was named 2016 Young Professional of the Year by the Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce. Bruce is currently authoring a book on historical trauma & radical healing.

Microaggressions

Speaker Marcus Hollan

Microaggressions are the everyday encounters of subtle discrimination that people of various marginalized groups experience throughout their lives. Microagressions can be intentional, unintentional and/or unconscious, and have a big impact on morale in the workplace.

In this webinar you will learn (Learning objectives)

  • The definition of microaggressions.
  • Examples of microagressions.
  • How microaggressions impact us and others in the workplace.
  • Techniques to manage, minimize and eliminate microaggressions in our workplace.

About the Presenter: Marcus Hollan

Marcus Hollan is the COO of Studio5 Learning. Studio5 Learning is a San Francisco-based learning design firm focused on people development. Marcus is also the Executive Director of the Cultivating Change Foundation. The foundation elevates LGBTQ agriculturists through advocacy, education and, community. Marcus earned a Master’s Degree in Community & Leadership Development from the University of Kentucky.

Psychological Safety: Improve Your Work Culture One Question at a Time

Speaker Jean-Marie-DiGiovanna-

The foundation for strong relationships, highly collaborative teams and full self-expression is trust and psychological safety.

Creating a culture of psychological safety requires a willingness and a commitment to practice open and healthy dialogue.

Fostering psychological safety begins with the science of asking powerful questions and the art of compassionate listening. When applied, employees and customers feel heard, seen and understood. Employee’s thoughts, ideas and perspectives are welcome and their talents and creativity flourish.

Organizational consultant, speaker and author Jean Marie DiGiovanna, will share the critical success factors to creating trust and the foundational skillset and tools needed to create and foster a culture of psychologically safety.

In this interactive session, get ready to: (Learning Objectives)

  • Discover the equation for success and factors critical to creating an environment of trust and psychological safety.
  • Learn the #1 Skill Renaissance Leaders possess to shift the dialogue, increase employee engagement and create a culture of trust and psychological safety.
  • Apply the “Safety 6” Questions that open up the dialogue and foster psychological safety on a day-to-day basis.

About the Speaker: Jean Marie DiGiovanna

Jean Marie DiGiovanna is an international keynote speaker, leadership development expert, certified executive coach and best-selling author.

With her body of work on Renaissance Leadership and over 25 years of experience across the globe, she helps leaders and their teams shift the way they think, lead and communicate rapidly creating a culture of increased trust, collaboration and innovation.

She is a master of experiential learning and has a unique ability for asking the questions no one is asking and deeply listening for what’s not being said. She has a gift for creating a safe environment where leaders and their teams  find their voice, speak their truth and resolve conflict swiftly and gracefully.

From Conflict to Courage: How to Stop Avoiding and Start Leading

Speaker Marlene-Chism-

Unresolved conflict is workplace kryptonite. Get ready to develop the mindset and skills to defuse disagreements, overcome division, and turn conflict into an opportunity for growth.

Unresolved workplace conflict wastes time, increases stress, and negatively affects business outcomes. But conflict isn’t the problem, mismanagement is.

We unintentionally mismanage conflict when they fall into patterns of what speaker Marlene Chism calls “The Three As:” aggression, avoidance, and appeasing.

“These coping mechanisms are ways human beings avoid the emotions that come with conflict, but in the end it’s all avoidance,” says Chism.

In this webinar you will learn how to fearlessly deal with conflict head-on by expanding your conflict capacity.

You will learn (Learning Objectives):

  • The three elements of conflict capacity: Inner Game, Outer Game, Culture.
  • Inner Game – How to build self-awareness, values, discernment, and emotional integrity.
  • Outer Game – Skills, tools, and communication techniques.
  • Culture – The visible and invisible structures around you that can encourage or discourage conflict.

About the Speaker: Marlene Chism

High-level leaders seek Marlene’s expertise as a thought partner, advisor or coach when going through periods of transition or change.

Organizations seek Marlene’s leadership development courses to teach mid-level and senior leaders the strategic communication skills to initiate conversations that get results and increase accountability.

She’s the author of four books, including Stop Workplace Drama; No-Drama Leadership; 7 Ways to Stop Drama in Your Healthcare Practice, and From Conflict to Courage: How to Stop Avoiding and Start Leading.

Marlene is an expert on the LinkedIn Learning platform offering courses in Anger Management; Difficult Conversations; Difficult Conversations for Managers, and Working with High Conflict People as a Manager.

Marlene has a degree in Communications from Drury University and a master’s degree in Human Resources Development from Webster University. She’s an advanced practitioner in Narrative Coaching.

Choosing Courage: The Everyday Guide for Being Brave at Work

Speaker Jim Detert

Have you ever wanted to disagree with your boss in a meeting? Speak up about something that doesn’t seem right? Make a tough decision that you know will be unpopular?

We all have opportunities to be courageous at work.

But since courage requires risk—to our reputations, our social standing, and, in some cases, our jobs—we often fail to act, which leaves us feeling powerless and regretful for not doing what we know is right.

There’s a better way to work and live.

Courage isn’t a character trait that only a few possess. It’s a virtue developed through practice.

In this webinar you will learn:

  • Research-based tactics to help you make better use of your courageous instincts at work.
  • How to develop courage through practice.
  • How to incoporate courage into your everyday life.
  • Stories of ordinary people who’ve acted courageously to make a greater impact.

About the Speaker: Jim Detert

Jim Detert is the author of the book Choosing Courage: The Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work, published by Harvard Business Review Press.

He is the John L. Colley Professor of Business Administration in the Leadership and Organizational Behavior area at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration and a Professor of Public Policy at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.

Jim’s research focuses on workplace courage, improvement-oriented voice (why people speak up or stay silent at work), ethical decision-making and behavior, and other leadership-related topics. This research, as well as his consulting experiences, has been conducted across a variety of global high-technology and service-oriented industries as well as public sector institutions, including K-12 education.

Jim received his M.A. in sociology and Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Harvard University. He also holds an MBA from the University of Minnesota and a BBA from the University of Wisconsin.

Conflict Resolution Frameworks: Strategies and Tactics to Resolve Conflict Personally and Professionally

Speaker Josh Dye

Kwame Christian says a conflict is A negotiation with attitude.

Conflict is a regular part of our lives. Whether it is a disagreement with a co-worker, client, family member or friend, we need tools that help us resolve important issues that are holding us back.

For many of us, conflict is uncomfortable. We would rather avoid it than confront it. We also struggle to understand how to resolve conflicts fairly.

Following a conflict resolution process, or framework, helps a lot. Instead of just winging it, we can follow research-driven and time tested best practices.

In this training you will learn the different conflict styles that people have, and we will review conflict resolution frameworks created by three experts:

  • Lisa Gates’s Resolution Roadmap
  • Kwame Christian’s Compassionate Curiosity
  • Jennifer Beer and Caroline Packard’s Mediator’s Handbook, which forms the foundation of the process professional mediators use at Conflict Resolution Centers around the country.

Let’s get ready to resolve conflicts together!

Healthy Relationships: Improve Empathy, Communication and Boundaries

Speaker Michael Jascz

This webinar is about cultivating and sustaining healthy, thriving, fulfilling and meaningful relationships. The key to this is greater awareness. And it doesn’t have to be so difficult. You will learn a dynamic set of communication and social skills to have more harmonious relationships.

You will also learn (learning objectives)

  • How to listen with empathy.
  • How to articulate your needs and feelings without blame and judgment.
  • The “T” exercise that will help you understand your feelings, and have greater empathy for others.

The quality of life and work is the quality of our relationships. Learn how to improve your relationships in this webinar!

About the Speaker: Michael Jascz

Michael Jascz is the Founder and Executive Director of The Relationship Foundation, an educational initiative on the forefront of a unique approach to Social and Emotional Learning with proven results. For over 14 years, Michael has dedicated himself to helping people build healthy and meaningful relationships. Michael has developed a groundbreaking program entitled “Healthy Relationships 101,” which has been introduced in New York City high schools since 2007.

Before working in the school setting, Michael studied the work of leading relationship authors and lecturers — Harville Hendrix and Marshall Rosenberg — whose work inspired the Healthy Relationships 101 curriculum and guidebook. He has given numerous relationship presentations and seminars throughout the United States and Europe, and he maintains a private coaching practice. Michael holds a degree in political science and anthropology from the honors program at Ohio State University.