What’s holding your board back from achieving real diversity and inclusion, or even talking about it? How do you start to discuss equity and anti-racism and reflect it in your governance?
Your board may struggle with starting or maintaining the process of achieving meaningful and lasting diversity and inclusion. Whether you face challenges with recruiting the right talent, heightening their engagement, building an inclusive culture, and/or retaining and preparing diverse candidates for leadership roles, you know that you need to do something different to reach your goals focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion.
In this workshop we will discuss some of the structural, cultural, and emotional barriers that exist on boards when it comes to building greater diversity and inclusion. We will walk through the steps to breakthrough these barriers along three dimensions for sustainable board diversity and inclusion. Through exercises and peer discussion, we will explore how to:
• Make the case for equity, diversity, and inclusion on your board
• Understand the barriers to greater diversity and inclusion that may exist on your board
• Identify how to breakthrough these barriers and who should lead the process
• Explore an approach to action planning for real board diversity and inclusion and a path to explore equity and anti-racism
Facilitator:
Rena Henderson Mason, Bold Agenda. Rena is a trusted advisor to mission-driven board and staff leaders, helping them shape their boards for high performance and tell their unique stories. She is a ICF-Certified Coach and BoardSource Certified Governance Trainer with extensive training in high performance coaching, board development and group process facilitation. She has coached Board Chairs and Executive Directors/CEOs through a range of organizational challenges including growth, leadership transitions, strategic alliances, restructuring, turnaround and crisis.