Engage Leaders
All too often, corporate leaders turn over diversity programs to men and women of color and white women. This usually ends up disempowering white male leaders and widening the cultural divide – not narrowing it.
Real change for diversity and inclusion begins from the top down. And in a majority of businesses that means involving white male leaders at the highest level of diversity initiatives.
White Men as Full Diversity Partners motivates white male executives to claim a personal stake in diversity programs and inspires them to be courageous agents of change.
We help leaders engage by:
- Demonstrating that white men also have cultural expectations that they typically ignore or deny. We help them understand white male culture by examining its positive and sometimes negative impacts on employee engagement, motivation and partnership.
- Acknowledging how one standard diversity effort or training program after another has undermined their faith in this work.
- Opening their eyes to some of the many ways that poor, often unconscious, communication among leaders and teams cripples business competitiveness.
- Exploring how white women and people of color are often put into no-win situations at work and showing specific ways to move beyond this dilemma to improve work effectiveness.
- Examining the huge bottom-line value to recruitment, retention and innovation that real diversity and inclusion makes possible.
- Call 503-281-5585 to explore the solutions you need.
- Or fill out the Contact Form.
It was liberating to know it was okay to identify with other white men, discuss issues, share experiences, speak openly regarding concerns and learn other points of view.
