Inclusive Leadership in DEI

Learn in a classroom environment with your peers, face to face or virtual with an instructor online.

Course Length:  1 day

Target Audience: Team leads, supervisors, managers and directors

This 6-hour BEVA® virtual instructor-led Inclusive Leadership course equips leaders with practical skills to build belonging, fairness, and high-performing teams. Participants learn why inclusion matters, increase self-awareness of unconscious bias, and practice tools to interrupt bias in daily leadership. The BEVA® course focuses on inclusive communication, psychological safety, and structured decision-making to improve team outcomes. Leaders also explore allyship and inclusive team norms, then finish with a concrete action plan and personal commitment they can apply immediately.

Learning Objectives:

The participants will learn to:

• Define inclusive leadership and explain its impact on people, teams, and organizational performance.
• Recognize personal and systemic unconscious biases and use self-awareness to reduce their influence.
• Communicate in ways that build psychological safety and ensure all voices are heard and valued.
• Apply inclusive, bias-mitigated decision-making in leadership and talent processes.
• Lead inclusive teams through allyship and commit to an actionable plan to sustain change.

Course Outline:

• Setting the Foundation – Why Inclusive Leadership Matters
• Self-Awareness & Unconscious Bias
• Inclusive Communication & Psychological Safety
• Inclusive Decision-Making & Bias Mitigation
• Leading Inclusive Teams & Allyship
• Action Planning & Sustaining Change
• Closing & Commitments

Supplement Material

A student manual is available for the learner to follow during the instructor’s presentation.

Benefits to the participants

Participants will gain practical skills to recognize and reduce bias, communicate inclusively, and build psychologically safe teams. They will leave with allyship strategies and a concrete action plan to sustain inclusive, high-performing leadership.

Note: The course outline may be subject to changes.