Inclusive Leadership Masterclass

Day one

Growing our leadership lens

Deepen our systems thinking lens and gain tools to uncover patterns, diagnose challenges, and lead change.

We begin by unpacking how systems of oppression— racism, colonialism, ableism, and patriarchy—shape our values, workplaces, relationships, and decision-making structures. While many leaders are familiar with diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) concepts, few have had the opportunity to build the analytical lens and muscle needed to apply them in practice.

Day One focuses on building that capacity.

We explore how exclusion is often unintentionally embedded in everyday interactions, decisions, and organizational policies shaped by dominant norms and unequal systems. Through real case studies, reflective practice, and accessible frameworks, you’ll begin to sharpen your equity lens and identify leverage points for change in your own context.

You’ll learn to:

• Explore how power, privilege, dominant culture characteristics, and unconscious bias unintentionally impact decisions, team dynamics, and workplace culture.
• Use case-based application of the iceberg model and the four levels of systems change (individual, interpersonal, institutional, cultural), and to better recognize where and how exclusion is reinforced.
• Reflect on how our identities, values, and norms shape what we define as “professionalism” or “excellence”—and how those definitions, when left unexamined, can unintentionally create barriers for others in hiring and decision-making.
• Apply an intersectional lens to explore how overlapping identities affect access, safety, and belonging.
• Identify and being aware of your bias, and learn mitigation strategies to interrupt it.

Day two

Practicing inclusive leadership (even when it gets messy)

Day Two is where we shift from awareness to action, applying the systems lens developed on Day One to everyday leadership decisions, tensions, and relationships. We explore what it truly means to lead with equity especially when things get hard, messy, or uncomfortable.

We’ll examine how inclusive leadership isn’t just about vision or values, or a side-of-your-desk effort. It’s about how we respond to conflict, share power, make decisions, and build cultures of care and accountability.

This day focuses on the conditions where diversity—from people to ideas—can actually thrive.

We create space to unpack real challenges and wisdom from our own leadership journeys, and explore the tools and practices that support inclusive leadership in action.

You’ll learn to: 

• Explore RADIUS’ Diversity as an Outcome model and organizational case study to reflect on what inclusive leadership looks like in practice  including the complexity, learning, and ongoing repair it often requires.
• Hear from the RADIUS Co-Directors about our shift to a matriarchal co-leadership model, how we rebuilt trust after internal conflict, and what it takes to lead relationally in real time.
• Build skills for calling in and calling out, navigating discomfort, and repairing harm with accountability.
• Foster psychological safety by embedding accessibility, care, transparency, and trust into your team culture.
• Learn the Equity-Centered Design (ECD) framework to embed co-creation, shared power, and inclusive processes into your work