Course objectives and outcomes (in-person or virtual):

• Understand why disparities and inequities exist and persist for different demographic groups
• Identify the systemic mechanisms that reproduce inequities and create barriers to equal opportunity often unintentionally
• Discover evidenced-based best practices for operationalizing and sustaining Racial Equity
• Learn what Racial Equity means for different organizational departments and how everyone at every level can contribute

Course objectives and outcomes (in-person or virtual):

• Understand the origins of human biases
• Analyze the different types of biases
• Discover most common workplace biases and the impacts on decision-making, resource allocation, policy development, social interactions, employment, service delivery and programs, purchasing and procurement, and stakeholder engagement
  Practical strategies for managing and neutralizing biases

Course objectives and outcomes (in-person or virtual):

• Understand how to apply systems thinking for addressing complex and recurring Racial Equity challenges
• Identify how complex workplace problems self-perpetuate due to not anticipating unintended consequences of short-term solutions, and well-intentioned policies and practices  
• Explore systemic strategies and root cause remedies to identify and remove barriers to sustain an environment of fairness and equal opportunity 

Course objectives and outcomes (in-person or virtual):

• Identify and evaluate department policies and practices that advance or impede equal opportunity to help prevent and reduce disparities, and ensure equal opportunity for all stakeholders
• Practical application for developing a department specific stakeholder Equal Opportunity SWOT analysis 

Course objectives and outcomes (in-person or virtual):

• Identify best practices for developing equity scorecards, metrics and indicators and understand what to measure and how to measure Equal Opportunity 
• Analyze Anti-Discrimination action plans and identify what makes a plan effective and ineffective
• Implementation strategies and sustaining the momentum
• Leading change, managing challenges and why equal opportunity and anti-discrimination fails within organizations