Rethinking Leadership: A Deeper Dive into Structural Racism for DEI Champions
Thoughts on Structural Racism and Leadership is not your typical DEI instruction—it’s a bold and necessary inquiry aimed at engaging leaders, DEI consultants, and organizations ready to move beyond surface-level diversity efforts.
Rather than focusing solely on quotas or representation, this inquiry invites an examination of the structures and systems that uphold inequity. It challenges participants to look deeply at whiteness as a pervasive system of dominance that, often unconsciously, shapes cultural belonging within organizations. Through this lens, we explore how unexamined racial conditioning fuels unawareness and racial harm—and what it takes to create spaces of genuine inclusion.
This course doesn’t provide answers but invites a pause, offering essential questions for leaders and teams to consider how they begin to foster diversity and equity. As you engage each question, you’ll leave this course with insights to begin cultivating cultural belonging with courage, awareness, and accountability. This is a call to reimagine DEI work as an ongoing commitment—one rooted in personal and systemic transformation, laying a foundation for true belonging.
Are you ready to lead with integrity and impact?
Let’s begin!
Suggested Reading
Mindful of Race: Transforming racism begins on the inside
We encourage leaders and teams to read and discuss this publication by Ruth King to have a deeper understanding of the inquiry offered in this course.