REAL WORLD ISSUES COURSE
Designing Inclusive, Intercultural Organisations
Nagesh Rao, Michaela Carrière
Nagesh Rao, Michaela Carrière
Implementing structural changes and personal development work for more inclusive, effective organisations
OVERVIEW
Organisations continue to realise the strategic benefits and social relevance of embracing diversity and inclusiveness within their operations. In our long experience, sustainable measurable progress is most likely to occur when both structural issues (policies, systems, measurement) are addressed and (inter)personal development is prioritised.
Join this course to help your organisation—or those of your clients if you are an external consultant—be both diverse and inclusive. We’ll examine how to analyse the situation, obtain stakeholder inputs, and then cooperatively develop solutions that apply change management principles for systems and processes while simultaneously fostering individual level intercultural development.
We use case studies from successful corporate, higher education and government initiatives to demonstrate how this approach can be implemented and share insights to help you apply it. You will gain information from evidence-based theories, the faculty’s own successful experiences, plus concrete frameworks and tools to apply in your specific situation.
In this course, you will learn how to help yourself—and those you work with—so that you/they can better:
- Understand and appreciate the significance of being both diverse and inclusive
- Establish and implement an inclusion plan that considers both systems and processes on the organisational level as well as (inter)personal intercultural development on the individual level
- Develop and measure goals, policies and processes that promote inclusivity and diversity
- Implement and model customized cultural competency training and programming for stakeholders
We will share concepts and real-life examples to illustrate how this dual approach has worked to successfully launch and measurably sustain diversity and inclusion initiatives in different types of workplaces.
This course is for you if are in charge of or a consultant/trainer/multiplier/educator who helps those who:
- Lead or significantly support the planning and/or implementation of a diversity and inclusion initiative for a corporation, educational institution, governmental department, healthcare facility, NGO or similar
- Have at least 5 years’ experience in an organisational or consultant role in diversity
COURSE TYPE
Real World Issues
DURATION/DATES
3 days/12-14 July 2023
TARGET LEVEL(S)
Senior (20+ years)
Advanced (13-19 years)
Mid (6-12 years)
TUITION FEE
€1495
includes certificate from the University and the Institute
Nagesh Rao, PhD
Currently based in the US, Dr. Nagesh Rao is an accomplished DEI trainer, coach, consultant and professor who uses intercultural competence, cultural humility, storytelling and intercultural listening to develop leaders in healthcare/medicine, education and business.
In Nagesh’s three+ decades of teaching, consulting and training, he has worked with clients in Fortune 500 corporations, top medical schools and hospitals, educational institutes and community-based non-profit organizations in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.
In 2017, Dr. Rao was named special advisor on inclusion and faculty affairs and asked to design and implement Ohio University (US) Medical School’s Office of Inclusion. He has visiting lecturer appointments at numerous universities including the University of Groningen (Netherlands).
Drs Michaela Carrière
In addition to her role as Intercultural Competence Section Head and Lead Trainer at the University of Groningen/Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Michaela Carrière is the Programs Coordinator for the University’s Office of Diversity. Having established the University’s Intercultural Winter and Summer School programs and various initiatives to support the intercultural learning within international student mobility programmes, she is now in the process of developing a university-wide diversity and inclusion certification program.
A self-described global nomad and ‘Third Culture Kid’, Michaela has lived in India, Indonesia, and the USA, Burma (Myanmar) and Bangladesh, as well as the Netherlands. Her research includes Intercultural Communication, International Education and Ethics. She consults with government ministries, NGOs and other clients throughout the Netherlands, helping them ‘create a culture for culture’ by achieving an internal critical mass of intercultural competence
I also have felt -and know others have as well - just a little more human, a little more alive and definitely the wiser from time with Dr. Rao. If you have the chance to work with him, my advice would be - take it! Cari Caldwell, Co-Founder The Systems Collective
She has developed new methodologies and approaches, and her participatory, inclusive and interactive approach to training and teaching only further evolves and advances her work.
She is a leader in her field and believe it is fair to say that she is one of the top trainers globally.
CONSIDERATIONS
Neuroscience is often considered a topic beyond the reach of daily practitioners, many of whom may not have a background in the hard sciences. While a general understanding of ?human biology and physiology? is helpful, and we will touch on the anatomy and chemistry involved, the core concepts we will address do not require a specialized understanding in this area.
PREQUALIFICATIONS
While this course is open to all practitioners, it is strongly recommended that you have:
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