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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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.

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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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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.

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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”).

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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.

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Women Who Lead website

The goal of Women Who Lead is to create a movement that fills the pipeline with diverse women leaders who are ready to advance the healthcare landscape, equipping them with the skills and opportunities they need to succeed. Most importantly, it is a platform for partnership and inspiration that elevates and amplifies the contributions of women and the broader community.

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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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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.

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12 Steps to Close the Gender Pay Gap by 2025

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Ontario midwives call on Ford government to comply with tribunal orders to end gender discrimination with hand-delivered messages

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario ordered the Ford government to take concrete actions to close the gender pay gap. On Friday, February 28, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. (EST), midwives across the province hand-delivered letters to their local Conservative MPPs asking them to implement the orders, instead of appealing the decision and continuing to spend resources fighting midwives in court.

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Tribunal delivers landmark victory to Ontario midwives in years-long pay-equity battle

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Emerging Health Leaders Website

Through networking and educational events, Emerging Health Leaders provides a forum for open, collaborative, and constructive dialogue on timely national health issues. EHL targets young health leaders from a cross section of health employers in the public, private, and not-for-profit sector. Members of EHL meet to share workplace experiences and perspectives, discuss recent health system publications, communicate forthcoming events — including seminars, workshops and conferences — as well as engage in rich discussions on a host of political and health related issues.

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Canadian College of Health Leaders’s National Mentorship Program (NMP) website

The CCHL National Mentorship Program is offered at no cost to all College members, at every stage of their career, from coast to coast. The program can be accessed through the College’s online community and leadership development platform called the CCHL Circle.

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Faculty Roster: U.S. Medical School Faculty Report

The annual report "U.S. Medical School Faculty" is a set of tables and trend analyses that answer common questions about the national distribution of full-time faculty. The information is displayed by various characteristics such as department, rank, degree, tenure status, gender, and race/ethnicity.

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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.

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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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AAMC Statement on Gender Equity

The AAMC acknowledges that gender equity is a key factor in achieving excellence in academic medicine. To achieve the benefits of diversity, diversity must be inextricably linked to inclusion and equity. Environments are equity-minded when every person can attain their full potential and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential by their social position, group identity, or any other socially determined circumstance.

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