Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Workshops for Teams

Our DEI experts will work with you to design a curriculum that fosters meaningful conversations, equips participants with practical tools, and provides actionable strategies for immediate application. This foundational training covers key concepts such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in practice, power and privilege, and addressing unconscious bias. Additionally, it can incorporate elements from our specialized training areas, including anti-racism, conflict resolution, and navigating difficult conversations.

Creating an equitable workplace requires intentional action to support equity-deserving communities, remove systemic barriers, and drive meaningful organizational change. These training topics provide insight into how different forms of discrimination manifest in the workplace, and offers strategies to address them. Sessions can be tailored to explore multiple communities or focus on a specific area of discrimination.

Topics can include:

Anti-Racism (e.g., Anti-Black Racism, Anti-Asian Hate, Anti-Indigenous Racism, Black History Month)

Gender Identity & Sexual Diversity (2SLGBTQ+ Inclusion)

Indigenous Truth and Reconciliation (Eg., Meaningful Land Acknowledgments)

Disability Inclusion & Workplace Accessibility

Religious Inclusion (e.g., Addressing Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, and Religious Biases)

Effective leadership is inclusive leadership. This training equips leaders with the knowledge and skills to foster equity, drive inclusive decision-making, and create psychologically safe workplaces. Leaders will learn to identify and address bias, navigate difficult conversations, lead through uncertainty, and center empathy and respect in their leadership approach. By cultivating inclusive leadership, organizations can inspire high-performing, engaged, and diverse teams.

Learn how to integrate Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) into your workplace practices and policies. This training provides a foundational understanding of GBA Plus, including its history, relevance to your industry, and connection to broader DEI principles. Participants will gain hands-on experience with the five-step GBA Plus process, explore diversity-disaggregated data sources, and review best practices and case studies. As part of this training, we provide a customized GBA Plus tool tailored to your organization to ensure seamless application in decision-making and policy development.

Embedding inclusion into HR processes is essential for creating equitable and inclusive workplace cultures and high performing teams. Our training supports HR professionals and leaders in implementing fair, inclusive, and legally sound HR practices.

Some topics include:

Inclusive Recruitment & Hiring: Strategies to build equity and inclusion into the processes to attract, assess, and hire new candidates.

Bias-Free Performance Management: Tools for delivering equitable feedback, supporting career growth, and mitigating bias in evaluations.

Inclusive Onboarding & Offboarding: Best practices for fostering belonging from day one, and handling employee transitions with fairness and dignity.

Employment Standards & Compliance: A review of legal requirements with an inclusion-focused lens.

Inclusive HR for Non-HR Professionals: A comprehensive session covering core HR principles for managers and leaders.

A thriving workplace prioritizes both physical and psychological well-being. Our training helps organizations create environments where employees feel safe, valued, and supported.

Training topics can include:

Harassment Prevention & Workplace Respect: Understanding workplace legislation, rights, responsibilities, and strategies to prevent and address harassment.

Psychological Safety & Team Wellness: Fostering trust, respect, and empathy to build resilient and high-performing teams.

Occupational Health & Safety through an Equity Lens: Applying inclusive practices to workplace safety policies and procedures.

Learn about the evolution and nuances of inclusive language. Discuss inclusive language in terms of cross-cultural communication, equity-deserving populations and Indigenous Communities in Canada. We will unpack key terms, their history and significance and equip participants with the knowledge and skills to speak inclusively and respectfully - to build bridges, not divides.

Align and equip your Board of Directors with the knowledge and skills to advance inclusion and belonging. This program dives into governance as well as working boards and shares best practices in inclusive governance, policy setting, strategic planning and oversight, and in recruitment and retention. This program can be completed as an individual Board Member or in a cohort-format as a group.

An annual subscription to our innovative online platform, Equality 360, filled with high-impact HR and DEI microlearning, with customized learning paths for your organization. The subscription helps you build and sustain inclusive skills and knowledge over time and ensures you are up-to-date on all the latest people and culture and future of work news and trends.