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.

Building Indigenous health workforce capacity and capability through leadership - the Miwatj health leadership model

This article examines Indigenous leadership within the Miwatj Health Aboriginal Corporation in Australia. It identifies three key elements of the Miwatj Leadership Model: providing employment opportunities, supporting staff development, and prioritizing physical, emotional, and cultural wellbeing. It revealed that the implementation led to improved healthcare accessibility and cultural safety.

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Indigenous social exclusion to inclusion: Case studies on Indigenous nursing leadership in four high income countries

This paper highlights the visibility of Indigenous nurses' efforts in advancing strategic approaches for improving health outcomes and resource allocation. Using a Kaupapa Māori case study approach, Indigenous nurse academics from four countries identifies strategies for change, such as Indigenous nationhood, nursing leadership, workforce development, culturally safe practice, and activism.

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Can We Finally Move the Needle on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Nursing?

This article discusses ongoing challenges in achieving DEI in nursing. It proposes strategies such as targeted recruitment, mentorship, and leadership programs to foster inclusion.

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Building Solidarity with Black Nurses to Dismantle Systemic and Structural Racism in Nursing.

This paper studies how systemic and structural racism affect nurses of colour and what the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario and the government can do to address the situation.

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Leadership for change: how medical associations are working toward equity, diversity, and inclusion.

The first paper in the four-paper series "Leadership for change"presents the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians frameworks, EDI strategies and institutional programs.

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Building More Bridges: Indigenous leadership in a study assessing the impact of distance to care on markers of quality HIV care in Saskatchewan

This paper discusses how Indigenous living with HIV in Saskatchewan can play a major role in HIV research and HIV care.

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Leadership for change: working toward equity, diversity, and inclusion.

The second paper of the "Leadership for change" series presents the work of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians in integrating EDI in Emergency medicine through educational interventions, changes to organizational structure, and incorporation of EDI in strategic planning.

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Inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility: From organizational responsibility to leadership competency

This paper discusses anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism and barriers within the health sciences and proposes the LEADS framework to boost leadership of the racialized groups.

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For Women of colour in Medicine, the Challenges Extend Beyond Education $

a post by Jessica Yang on how societal structures influence the experiences of Women of Colour, from the medical school application process and beyond. The post includes an interview with Uche Blackstock, M.D. about some of her experiences as a Black woman in emergency medicine in the United State

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Canada, MB, Other/Mixed, General, Webinar, Engage Others, Race Ivy Bourgeault Canada, MB, Other/Mixed, General, Webinar, Engage Others, Race Ivy Bourgeault

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

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The Truth and Reconciliation Website

The TRC was charged to listen to Survivors, their families, communities and others affected by the residential school system and educate Canadians about their experiences. The resulting collection of statements, documents and other materials now forms the sacred heart of the NCTR.

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