Center for Inclusion and Diversity: Services

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This program explores culture, cultural diversity, and their impact on workplace relationships, collaboration, and performance. Participants develop a deeper understanding of their own cultural identities, worldviews, and mindsets, and how these influence their interactions with others.

Using the Cultural Proficiency Framework, participants explore barriers, guiding principles, the cultural proficiency continuum, and essential elements of culturally proficient practice. Through reflection, discussion, and practical workplace scenarios, they develop strategies to strengthen cultural awareness, foster inclusion, and build more culturally proficient teams and organizations.

Audience: Employees (Leadership and/or General Staff focused available)

Objectives: Participants will develop an understanding of culture and its impact on professional employee relationships, relationships with other partners in an organization (including students and external stakeholders), how to understand culture from an inside-out perspective, and developing the tools necessary to build a healthier and more inclusive organization. 

Duration: Two full-days (8hrs x 2)

Format: In-person and Virtual

Beyond Bias is a practical, evidence-based training program that explores how conscious and unconscious bias shapes workplace decisions, interactions, and organisational culture. Through real-world scenarios, reflection, and interactive discussions, participants learn to recognize and challenge bias, make fairer decisions, and foster a more inclusive and respectful workplace.

Participants explore conscious and unconscious bias and its influence on workplace decisions, leadership, everyday interactions, and organisational culture. The training provides practical strategies to challenge assumptions, interrupt bias, promote fairness, and foster greater inclusion and accountability in the workplace.

Audience: Employees (Leadership and/or General Staff focused available)

Objectives: Participants develop an understanding of the various forms of bias, how bias affects decision-making, professional relationships, and performance and outcomes of an organization. Participants will leave with a knowledge of strategies to overcome bias in the workplace.

Duration: One full-day (8hrs)

Format: In-person and Virtual

The Centre for Inclusion and Diversity (CID) develops customized training and workshops tailored to the unique needs, priorities, and goals of each organization. Before developing training, CID can conduct a needs assessment to identify key challenges, areas for improvement, and learning objectives. This ensures that training content is relevant, practical, and aligned with organizational priorities. 

CID provides post-training evaluation data and feedback to assess participant learning, measure effectiveness, and identify opportunities for continued development.

Training proposals can be made to specifically address organizational inclusivity, strengthen leadership skills, address common concerns, or other topics that will strengthen participation in an organization or affect the outcomes of an organization.

CID will help organizations design and implement powerful engagement experiences that elevate employee voice, strengthen leadership capacity, and build cultures of trust, collaboration, and shared ownership. 

Drawing from my leadership of a districtwide Student Coalition initiative and my experience leading college students through a gender and identity inclusion consultative process, I bring practical experience in creating structures that empower individuals to influence the decisions of leadership and other decision makers, solve problems, and contribute to organizational improvement.

My consulting approach moves organizations beyond traditional engagement toward sustainable transformation.  The value isn't simply giving people a voice, it's building the leadership, systems, and organizational capacity to turn that voice into lasting impact.