Opleiding: Inclusive Leadership 2.0 // Leadership-Exzellenz für inklusive und leistungsfähige Teams

Creating environments where leaders inspire success for all

The future of leadership is about creating high-performing, sustainable organizations where everyone feels they can contribute their full potential. Inclusive leaders understand the importance of nurturing such environments – for themselves and others.

Leading inclusively starts with knowing oneself. The more nuanced our understanding of ourselves, the better we can see, value, and invite the unique traits and viewpoints of others. Inclusive leaders demonstrate effective behaviors and skills that unleash the potential of their team members and colleagues, acting like conductors who orchestrate everyone’s efforts with visible leadership.

Inclusive leaders lead courageously and boldly through ambiguity and uncertainty, for a more sustainable and equitable future. They strive to be their best selves while shaping environments that empower others. Yet today's (growing) leadership complexities and business demands may leave leaders feeling unprepared to achieve the desired impact or struggling to be confident or persistent in pursuing their vision.

Are you one of them? If so, ESMT Berlin’s Inclusive Leadership 2.0 program could be the perfect fit for you.

Why Inclusive Leadership 2.0?

Since the 2020 surge in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, corporate approaches have evolved. It’s time to rethink “how to do DEI,” or how to lead inclusively. Overt references to DEI are declining, bias trainings often fall short, and the idea that DEI is the responsibility of the HR or DEI officers is contested.

Truly inclusive workplaces rely on their leaders to view diversity and inclusion as a set of skills and invest in building that competence. With social inequalities and polarization among the top global risks, and leadership, social influence, and talent management among the top 10 skills of the future according to the World Economic Forum, inclusive leadership is essential for resilient leaders and businesses.

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.