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.
Sex and Gender Champions CIHR
In 2014, CIHR began requiring the inclusion of Sex and Gender Champions on research teams on some funding initiatives. A Sex and Gender Champion is a researcher who possesses or acquires expertise in the study of sex as a biological variable and/or gender as a social determinant of health. The Champion supports the research team to produce rigorous, transparent and generalizable research findings through the consideration of sex and gender factors throughout the research process.
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.
Well-intentioned Bias
The author provides answers to "We all have biases" from faux DEI experts.
In the quote by Dr. Gigi Osler, past president of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and EMT surgeon states that gender equity is related to patient care. Patient are denied better quality care with the current structural gender bias.
A post where Shailja emphasizes the importance of recognizing and empowering women. It encourages reading, citing, and crediting women's work, teaching and publishing women's contributions, acknowledging and awarding women's achievements, promoting and supporting women in various fields, listening to and believing women's voices, and ensuring equal pay for women.
