Opleiding: Inclusive Leadership
Creating environments where leaders inspire success for all
Inclusive leadership goes beyond delivering business objectives—it’s about creating workplaces where everyone feels safe, seen, appreciated, and connected. Inclusive leaders understand the importance of nurturing such environments for sustainable and holistic impact.
To lead inclusively, one needs both specific skills and a mindset built on the appreciation of diversity. These leaders, like conductors, orchestrate diverse teams to achieve harmony. However, leveraging diversity is not easy. Historical, systemic, and individual unconscious biases can lead to inequities and feelings of exclusion unless actively addressed.
Inclusive leaders continuously strive to ensure everyone is seen, heard, and valued, in order to foster a sense of belonging in the workplace. Are you one of them? If so, ESMT Berlin’s Inclusive Leadership program could be the perfect fit for you.
Topics
- Diversity: Dimensions of diversity and their impact on interactions, biases and untapped potential in personal diversity profiles.
- Equity: Historical and systemic power dynamics and strategies to address inequities in business and society.
- Inclusion: Verbal and non-verbal actions and leading in challenging, emotional, or controversial situations.
- Belonging: Organizational and psychological barriers to belonging and creating environments where everyone feels valued and included.
Benefits
- Gain deeper insights into yourself, your leadership impact, and potential in the realm of DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging).
- Develop clarity on how to lead inclusively within your specific organizational context, identifying the necessary skills and mindset shifts to realize these aspirations.
- Enhance your understanding of societal and organizational dynamics that shape DEI issues, challenges, and opportunities, with an appreciation for both local and global contexts.
- Increase your confidence in pursuing your inclusive leadership vision and driving the change you want to see in your organization.
Your profile
- You are an experienced leader with at least 5 years of indirect leadership experience and able to make a significant impact across your organization.
- Ideally, you should have first-hand experience dealing with diversity or inclusivity challenges or be part of a transformation effort in this area.
- You are committed to embracing your role as a change agent and striving to make the workplace more inclusive and better for everyone.
- Suitable for former ESMT students in our degree programs or participants from our customized executive education programs.
