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Geared toward working professionals in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors, Leadership for an Increasingly Diverse World, takes leaders from being passively engaged to being actively engaged in the fight for diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice. To lead effectively in the 21st century workplace and beyond requires cultivating a more connected, more diverse, more inclusive, and more globally reflective organizational culture. This course will help leaders embody a diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice mindset so that they can adapt and respond to a rapidly changing, increasingly diverse, and globally connected world.
Welcome to Week 1 of the course!
The goal of Week 1 is to help you rediscover the curiosity you had at the age of 4 and to learn about yourself and others. To achieve that goal, you will be guided to unpack diversity from both a conceptual and an existential framework.
A series of video lectures, learning activities, and reflective exercises will help you unravel all the ways you are diverse. Then, you will use this self-awareness to analyze how your personal diversity influences your actions and behaviors in the leadership contexts in which you serve.
Before diving into the Week 1 content and learning activities, please view the welcome video from your instructor and then complete a short “pre-assessment” quiz to gauge what diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice mean to you.
What's included
5 videos18 readings7 assignments
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5 videos•Total 35 minutes
Welcome to the Course!•1 minute
Introduction to the “Aha!” Diversity Moments and You/What Leaders With a Diversity Mindset Bring to the World•8 minutes
The Roadmap to Personal and Professional Diversity•9 minutes
The Influence of Personal Identity on Professional Identity, Behavior, Policy, and Procedure•9 minutes
Recap of Discovering Yourself as a Diverse Leader•8 minutes
18 readings•Total 230 minutes
Welcome•10 minutes
Course Overview and Requirements•7 minutes
Meet Your Instructor•3 minutes
Netiquette•10 minutes
Optional Learning Activity: Reflections on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice Journal•2 minutes
Get help and meet other learners. Join your Community!•5 minutes
Introduction to The “Aha!” Diversity Moments and You•2 minutes
Expert Insights in Diversity•14 minutes
Introduction to the Roadmap to Diversity•2 minutes
Expert Insights in Diversity•29 minutes
Optional Learning Activity: Reflections on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice Journal •30 minutes
Introduction to Diversity: Going From the Personal to the Professional•2 minutes
Expert Insights in Diversity•32 minutes
Optional Learning Activity: Reflections on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice Journal •30 minutes
Week 1 Summary•2 minutes
Expert Insights in Diversity•18 minutes
Optional Learning Activity: Reflections on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice Journal•30 minutes
Now that you have discovered what diversity looks like in yourself and in others, how do you integrate those identities? This module will help you evolve as a more inclusive leader. You will learn how to utilize what you know about diversity to elevate and celebrate yourself and others in personal and professional environments.
What's included
4 videos13 readings7 assignments
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4 videos•Total 25 minutes
Introduction to Discovering Yourself as an Inclusive Leader/Thinking Through What Inclusion Looks Like•7 minutes
The Essential Qualities That Distinguish Inclusive Leaders•6 minutes
How to Embody the Qualities of an Inclusive Leader•6 minutes
Recap of Discovering Yourself as an Inclusive Leader•7 minutes
13 readings•Total 191 minutes
Introduction to What Inclusive Leadership Looks Like•2 minutes
Expert Insights in Inclusion•11 minutes
Optional Learning Activity: Reflections on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice Journal•30 minutes
Introduction to the Essential Qualities That Distinguish Inclusive Leaders•2 minutes
Expert Insights in Inclusion•5 minutes
Optional Learning Activity: Reflections on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice Journal•30 minutes
Introduction to Embodying the Qualities of an Inclusive Leader•2 minutes
Expert Insights in Inclusion•10 minutes
Optional Learning Activity: Reflections on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice Journal•30 minutes
Week 2 Summary•2 minutes
Expert Insights in Inclusion•35 minutes
Optional Learning Activity: Reflections on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice Journal•30 minutes
Congratulations on completing the first half of the course! You have examined the vital role of diversity and inclusion in ethical leadership. You have also reflected on your own personal and professional experiences with diversity and equity. Your learning this week will help you build upon the foundation of diversity and inclusion in the workplace as an equity leader.
What's included
4 videos13 readings7 assignments
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4 videos•Total 14 minutes
Introduction to Discovering Yourself as an Equity Leader/Thinking Through What Equity Looks Like•3 minutes
Essential Practices for Equity Leadership•3 minutes
How to Implement the Practices of Equity Leadership•4 minutes
Recap of Discovering Yourself as an Equitable Leader•4 minutes
13 readings•Total 230 minutes
Introduction to Discovering Yourself as an Equity Leader•2 minutes
Expert Insights in Equity•35 minutes
Optional Learning Activity: Reflections on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice Journal•30 minutes
Introduction to Essential Qualities That Distinguish Equity Leaders•2 minutes
Expert Insights in Equity•20 minutes
Optional Learning Activity: Reflections on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice Journal•30 minutes
Introduction to Equity Leadership in Practice•2 minutes
Expert Insights in Equity•10 minutes
Optional Learning Activity: Reflections on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice Journal•30 minutes
Week 3 Summary•2 minutes
Expert Insights in Equity•35 minutes
Optional Learning Activity: Reflections on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice Journal•30 minutes
Week 3: Next Steps•2 minutes
7 assignments•Total 114 minutes
Equity Week Pre-Assessment Reflection•9 minutes
Lesson 3.1•10 minutes
Lesson 3.2•10 minutes
Lesson 3.3•10 minutes
Lesson 3.4•30 minutes
Lesson 3.4 Equity Week Audit•30 minutes
Equity Week Post-Assessment Reflection•15 minutes
Becoming a Justice-Seeking Leader
Module 4•5 hours to complete
Module details
This is it! You have reached the final week of the course, where you will knit together everything you have learned about diversity, inclusion, and equity so that you can emerge as a justice-seeking leader. This capstone module will help you design your role as a justice-seeking leader by examining justice-seeking workplace practices, exploring the unique qualities of justice-seeking leaders, and wrapping up the course with your own justice-seeking audit.
What's included
5 videos12 readings7 assignments
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5 videos•Total 16 minutes
Introduction to the Roadmap to Justice-Seeking Leadership/Reviewing the Roadmap to Justice-Seeking Leadership•4 minutes
What Does a Justice-Seeking Leader Look Like?•3 minutes
How to Critique Justice in Organizational Settings•4 minutes
Recap of Discovering Yourself as a Justice-Seeking Leader•5 minutes
Conclusion and Wrap-up•1 minute
12 readings•Total 170 minutes
Introduction to the Roadmap to Justice-Seeking Leadership•2 minutes
Expert Insights in Justice•20 minutes
Optional Learning Activity: Reflections on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice Journal•30 minutes
Introduction to Getting to Know Justice-Seeking Leaders•2 minutes
Expert Insights in Justice•10 minutes
Optional Learning Activity: Reflections on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice Journal•30 minutes
Introduction to Justice-Seeking Leadership in Organizational Settings•2 minutes
Expert Insights in Justice•10 minutes
Optional Learning Activity: Reflections on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice Journal•30 minutes
Week 4 Summary•2 minutes
Optional Learning Activity: Reflections on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice Journal•30 minutes
Notre Dame is a leading American research university that offers undergraduate, professional, and graduate students a chance to pursue their academic endeavors in a unique scholarly community. Enriched by Catholic intellectual and cultural traditions, it is a place that throughout its history has sought to bring knowledge into service of justice.
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