The Center’s DEI workshops encourage change and growth, exploring issues of race, diversity, inclusivity and equity to create an enhanced environment for employees that will improve the way businesses operate. Download our one-pager: DEI-Summary
To help encourage dialogue around DEI topics, we have launched a video series of 1-minute vignettes entitled Inclusion Insights. View them all on our YouTube playlist.
The Impact of Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
We help workplaces focus on their cultures to ensure equal dignity for all, encouraging change and growth to improve the way organizations operate. Studies show that unaddressed culture challenges in the workplace lead to low morale and poor employee retention, and can negatively impact an organization’s bottom line. McKinsey Group confirmed in 2020: “The most diverse companies are now more likely than ever to outperform less diverse peers on profitability.” DEI training leads to increased creativity, innovation, and decreased vulnerability to liability.
The Right Time for DEI Training
Considering a training? Your organization will benefit if you answer NO to any of these questions:
Our program is built on three key pillars designed to set your organization up for success. 
+ Experience: The Center houses Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr’s papers and connects the civil rights and global human rights movements to challenges today, drawing on that knowledge to improve workplace culture.
+ Flexibility: Our DEI workshops are customized for companies, government offices, nonprofits and educational institutions in three formats: onsite attendance at The Center in downtown Atlanta, in your company’s place of work, or virtually through facilitator-led programs
+ A Brave Space: DEI conversations can be challenging, even when we recognize the benefit. We offer a “brave space” safe enough to lean into, to move past discomfort, encouraging experiences that transform workplace culture.
DESIGNING YOUR DEI EXPERIENCE
Examining Beliefs and Values of Your Organization
Using an organization’s values, we explore how they manifest in the institution’s culture.
Creating a Common Language for DEI Concepts
Are we speaking the same language when we talk about creating diverse, equitable, and inclusive cultures where all feel a sense of belonging?
Understanding Implicit Bias and Microaggressions
An exploration of implicit bias, how it manifests as microaggression, and how we can identify and address it.
Embracing Cross Generational Diversity
Explore generational diversity and how race, power and privilege intersect.
Cultivating Inclusive Behaviors
An exploration of emotional intelligence and the role it plays in creating inclusive cultures and the foundational behaviors leaders should model to create these cultures.
Applying the Lessons of History to the Workplace
Explore the impact of history on current inequities in organizations and industries, and the roles organizations might take to address historical injustices to create diverse and inclusive environments.
Empowering Allyship
Explores the partnership between allies and members of under-represented groups.
LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Workplace
Definitions, microaggressions, practical applications for an inclusive workplace.
BRG/ERG leaders Advocating for Equity
Addresses how BRG/ERG leaders can build alliances in relationships across differences and advocate for underrepresented groups
Empathy-Building through History
Senior managers explore different perspectives in the decision-making processes in the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott and apply them to current issues in DEI.
The Business Case for DEI
Advancing DEI is an ethical imperative, but it’s also a business imperative and should be at the core of a company’s business strategy.
Using Feedback as an Equity Tool
High-quality feedback is crucial for individual advancement and organizational growth. Talent thrives where people give and receive honest feedback.
Gender Identity: Impact in the Workplace
Expectations for single mothers, male caregivers, female leadership; understanding gender identities, heteronormativity, and cisgender normativity.
Significance of Belonging
From productivity to retention, fostering belonging increases healthy connections, and increased well-being.
Cultivating Psychological Safety
Explore its role in creating inclusive organizations, increasing collaboration, innovation, trust, and accountability.
Defining Identity and Navigating Power
Explore individual and social identity, the relationship to power, and how leaders can use their power to advance DEI.
Navigating Challenging Conversations
In table-top activities, leaders learn empathetic listening, cultural humility, giving supportive feedback, and asking effective questions.
Creating a Meeting with DEI in Mind
Leaders are taught to use DEI practices to conduct effective meetings through agendas, facilitation, and follow up activities.
We have created several Learning Series to provide a roadmap to support your ongoing needs and unique roles within your organization. Each “series” is made up of 4-8 modules such as Cultivating Psychological Safety, Using Feedback as an Equity Tool, The Business Case for DEI, Navigating Challenging Conversation, and Characteristics of Inclusive Leaders. These modules will be delivered either monthly or quarterly, providing a roadmap to support your ongoing needs.
Leadership Series
+ Cultivating Psychological Safety
+ Using Feedback as an Equity Tool
+ The Business Case for DEI
+ Defining Identity and Navigating Power
+ Navigating Challenging Conversation
BRG and DEI Leaders Series
+ Advocating for Equity
+ Cultivating Psychological Safety
+ Navigating Challenging Conversations
+ Empowering Allyships
+ Defining Identity and Navigating Power
General Audiences Series
+ Examining Beliefs and Values
+ Creating a common language for DEI
+ Understanding Implicit Bias and Microaggressions
+ Cultivating Inclusive Behaviors
+ Embracing Cross Generational Diversity
+ Empowering Allyship
+ Navigating Challenging Conversations
Onboarding/New Employee Series
+ Creating a common language for DEI concepts
+ Understanding implicit bias and microaggressions
+ Embracing cross generational diversity
+ Empowering allyship
LGBTQ+ Series
+ Understanding Implicit Bias and Microaggressions
+ LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Workplace
+ Gender identity: impact in the workplace
+ Being an Ally to LGBTQ in the workplace
HR Leaders Series
+ Cultivating psychological safety
+ Creating a meeting with DEI in mind
+ Using feedback as an equity tool
+ Defining identity and navigating power
The Center would like to thank our sponsor(s) for their support of our mission driving initiatives. If you are interested in sponsoring The Center’s DEI program, please contact Phil Polk at [email protected].
UPS is a proud supporter of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
Huntington Ingalls is a proud supporter of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
Contact us to discuss how we can build an experience to support your DEI needs. Contact Pam Seiler at: [email protected], 720-581-1436