Collaborative Leaders
Purposefully Build Partnerships and Networks to create EDI results
Demonstrate a Commitment to coalitions among diverse groups and perspectives aimed at learning to improve service
Need to make an effort to bring people up
Mobilize Knowledge
Navigate Socio-Political Environments
Need to bring people with different levels of power
Developing EDI-Informed Coalitions
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, University of Ottawa & Canadian Health Workforce Network
Just as EDI considerations inform leadership capabilities within one’s discipline, group or organization, it also translates to the development of coalitions with others, the fourth D in the LEADS Framework. Collaborative leaders develop coalitions to create EDI awareness and achieve EDI goals within and across disciplines, groups and organizations. Partnerships are purposively built to create these EDI results with notable time and attention paid to create ongoing relationships of trust. This may involve coming to terms with broken trust from past interactions, a key lesson from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action. Collaborative leaders demonstrate a commitment to coalitions with diverse groups and perspectives aimed at learning how to improve service accessibility and cultural safety and acceptability. EDI knowledge within and across organizations is mobilized towards those ends. A purposeful effort to bring people with different voices, experiences, and forms of power to the table and mentoring up, within and across organizations helps to navigate complex socio-political and cultural environments.
Inclusive Leadership: Equity and Belonging in Our Communities
This book discusses of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
Disability Communication tips
USAID created this reference guide of affitmative and negavtive phrases for communication with people with disabilities
How To Be A Better Disability Ally with Daphne Frias
Daphne Frias is a proud champion to the disabled community. Watch this video to hear Daphne give her five biggest tips to being the best ally you can be.
TransWhat? A Guide towards Allyship
Allyship to trans people involves a number of different actions: some are necessary and relatively easy, while some require more commitment and activism. Some of these are behaviors that you must engage in to treat trans people respectfully; some are goals to aspire to, but they may take a while and require some more courage!
There's More to Gender Than "Man" and "Woman"
Lily Zheng talks about what she’s learned from studying the workplace experiences of people who identify as trans, nonbinary, genderfluid, butch, or gender - diverse in some other way
BlackChat the Podcast
Dedicated to healing Black communiteis in the lower mainland trhough family reunion styled gatherings
Intersectionality Matters
Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory
Dear White People: Here Are 10 Actions You Can Take To Promote Racial Justice In The Workplace $
An article that offers some ideas allies can put in place in order to promote racial justice in thier own workplace
Jacqui Dyer and Natalie Creary on race, mental health and BlackThrive
Jacqui Dyer and Nathalie Creary are two Black women working to dismantle systems of oppression in relation to mental health for Black folks in the United Kingdom. In this podcast, Jacqui Dyer says their work is founded on: “Having adult conversations with those who have a growth mindset, not a fixed mindset (after 11:45).” This is the difficultyet necessary work that is required within an anti-racism framework.
Breathe, then speak
Tenille discusses the harmful impact of settler colonialism and the intentional and unintentional perpetuation of negative stereotypes about Indigenous communities. She reflects on attempts to avoid invoking or repeating narratives about trauma and healing, particularly in what she often perceives to be unsafe settler spaces.
Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
The National Inquiry’s Final Report reveals that persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root cause behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people. The two volume report calls for transformative legal and social changes to resolve the crisis that has devastated Indigenous communities across the country.
White Fragility: Why its so hard for white people to talk about race
Dr. Robin DiAngelo participates in a panel discussion at the University of Manitoba. The panellists explore the violence of ongoing settler colonialism and whiteness in relation to health and well being in Canada. Dr. Anderson speaks of the myth of “colour blindness” in Canada because of Universal Health Care in Canada we treat everyone the same despite evidence of great disparities in health between white settlers and Indigenous peoples and people of colour
Got yourself an all-white panel? Just click on rentaminority.com
The website "Rentaminority.com" satirizes the superficial attitude to diversity by offering to "rent" minorities for events. It drew unexpected attention, emphasizing the need of true diversity initiatives. The paper emphasizes the significance of openly and substantively addressing diversity concerns, moving beyond tokenism.
Photoquote "Women’s visibility in academic seminars: Women ask fewer questions than men"
The graph shows the percentage of questions asked by women during seminars. They concluded that when a man asked the first question, women asked fewer questions compared to when a woman asked the first question.
RADICAL FEMINISM: A GIFT TO MEN
The author describes how embracing radical feminism changed their life, suggesting that males accept a feminist criticism of patriarchy, particularly regarding sexual exploitation, in order to live a more purposeful and joyous living beyond traditional masculinity.
Men: The Missing Piece Of The Gender Balance Jigsaw $
Joy Burnford's article highlights the significance of incorporating males in the gender balance movement in the workplace. It highlights the need of male allies, role models, and sponsorship in achieving gender balance for the benefit of both enterprises and society.
This CEO Says Men Can Be Allies to Their Female Coworkers by Doing 4 Things
Pete Gombert identified gender pay disparities in his firm, which led to the establishment of GoodWell, a startup that examines workplace inclusion. To reduce toxic masculinity, he recommends men to quantify their influence, implement feedback mechanisms, oppose passivity, and promote openness. Male leaders have the ability to set the tone for change.
The Lancet Group’s commitments to gender equity and diversity $
The Lancet Group is committed to increasing diversity and inclusion in research and publishing, and in particular to increasing the representation of women and colleagues from low-income and middle-income countries among our editorial advisers, peer reviewers, and authors. The Lancet Group is committed to no all-male panels (“manels”).
New Study: Almost Two-Thirds of Professional Event Speakers Are Male
Bizzabo analyzed event data from thousands of events over the past seven years and discovered that events still have a long way to go when it comes to gender diversity. The report analyzed the gender diversity of more than 60,000 event speakers over a seven-year period, from 2013 to 2019. The study spanned 58 countries across five continents, 45 industries and thousands of the world’s largest professional events.
CAUT welcomes settlement on equity targets for Canada Research Chairs Program
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) is welcoming the announcement that an agreement has been reached to ensure more robust equity targets, transparency, and accountability within the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program. The settlement builds upon recent government changes to enhance equity, diversity and inclusion in the CRC program, and caps a process started in 2003 by eight academics who, with the support of CAUT, filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission over the program’s failure to reflect the diversity of Canada’s university researchers.