Masterclass: leadership for diversity

Less than fifty percent of organisations are able to turn their diversity and inclusion investments and efforts into real quantifiable benefits for their organisation.

The challenge is even greater where companies across all industries are competing for highly sought-out technical skills in what some describe as a ‘talent war’. Besides the challenge of CIO’s attracting talent with the scarce combination of tech-skills and soft skills needed to collaborate with the business—creativity, cognitive flexibility, and emotional intelligence, they also face the challenge of appealing to workers who admire companies committed to having diverse workforces and leadership. So, how do we crack the code achieving more diversity in digital technology?

Kay Formanek, leading expert on diversity, inclusion, equity and inclusive leadership, has developed a proven approach for leaders who wish to lead diversity for success. She has researched over 130 companies that are successful in chartering their diversity journey.

In a 2-day masterclass, Kay will work with seasoned digital tech leaders and HR leaders in technology companies who wish to develop and implement the strategic narrative for diversity within their organisations and capture their benefits.

• Diveloping the strategic narrative for diversity performance and identify the dimenstions of diversity that are critical for satisfying the current and future mandate of the organisation.
• Evaluating the required diversity performance of your organisation and assess the gap to your current diversity performance on the diversity maturity model.
• Understanding the prerequisite of having an inclusive environment to obtain diversity of perspectives and learning the 70% plus impact of leadership behaviors on the assessment of whether there is an inclusive environment or not.
• Reveal the attributes and practices of successful diversity leaders, including the roles of allyship and sponsorship.
• Evaluating some key barriers to an inclusive environment such as bias and miscroaggressions and share the manner to creating a debiased talent environment and create a speaki-up culture.
• Focus on how diversity becomes part of the fabric of an organisation (process, protocols, metrics, celebration).

The masterclass is offered by RightBrains (Geke Rosier) in collaboration and partnership with Diversity and Performance (Kay Formanek). It has been developed in collaboration with leading international business schools and applied in the RightBrains Digital Leadership Programme.

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Kay Formanek is a foremost authority on this topic, bringing more than 35 years of experience, as writer, researcher, advisor, teacher and coach.

Geke Rosier is entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in developing marketing strategies for technology companies. She is the founder of RightBrains with a mission of growing the number of women in digital technology. In 2022 she won the Dianne Bevelander Prize for her substantial contribution to the cause.