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.

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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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Misconceptions about women in leadership in academic medicine

This paper analyzes four misconceptions about women in leadership positions in academic medicine as well as other issues such as gender pay gap in the field.

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Faculty recruitment, retention, and representation in leadership: an evidence-based guide to best practices for diversity, equity, and inclusion

This paper presents the issues that medicine institutions face regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion in their leadership positions.

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Building diverse leadership in an academic medical center: The ACCLAIM program

This paper addresses the disparities existing within the healthcare sector by identifying how the Multilevel Organizational Learming Framework can be effective to address leadership issues in medicine.

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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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The examples in the article demonstrate that sexism remains an issue in the headache medicine workplace and our professional societies. The authors hope these examples make readers more aware of problematic behavior, and give them ideas about how to intervene.

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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.

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Career Advancement and Leadership Skills for Women in Healthcare $

This professional development program delivers evidence-based strategies, skills development and education that help women at various stages of their healthcare careers step into and succeed in leadership positions. It also helps to effectively cultivate highly qualified current and future women leaders by developing the following competencies:

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