OUR SERVICES

Courageous Conversations Series. Includes Customized Options for Leaders, Teams, and Organizations.

Building cultures of open communication where employees feel safe to speak up and where they feel that their authentic selves are welcomed offers a competitive advantage for businesses by strengthening team cohesion, increasing job satisfaction and retention, bolstering innovation and creativity, and improving performance.

We offer two customized series that utilize courageous conversations to boost trust, drive growth and learning, and build high-performing leaders and teams. Through building self-awareness and skills, participants will leave these series with new perspectives, resources, and actionable strategies to productively navigate courageous conversations and resolve conflicts while preserving and strengthening workplace relationships.

For teams and organizations:

Navigating Courageous Conversations at Work. (Multi-session Series)

    • Discover how supportive relationships between people of different identities, beliefs, and lived experiences strengthens interpersonal connection among team members, improves performance, and increases job satisfaction.

    • Identify why courageous conversation skills are a vital tool in today’s changing world and increasingly diverse workplace.

    • Learn strategies for cultivating safe and brave spaces where employees’ authentic selves are welcomed and valued.

For leaders:

How to Lead Courageous Conversations. (Multi-Session Series)

    • Identify the principles of inclusive communication and courageous conversations and how leaders can combine them to increase psychological safety and cultivate a speak-up culture on teams.

    • Learn how to “set the table” for courageous conversations, how to have courageous conversations, and how to apply strategies for de-escalating conflict.

    • Discover best practices for communicating across difference and building trust and empathy through courageous conversations.

    • Equip leaders with the knowledge, skills, tools, and confidence to foster a culture of courage, open communication, and belonging between people of different identities, beliefs, personalities, and abilities.

Inclusive Leadership Coaching, Development, and Learning. Includes 1:1, Team-Based, and Cohort-Based Options.

Inclusive leadership unlocks the individual potential of employees and the collective power of teams. These offerings empowers leaders and supervisors to become drivers of inclusion in their organizations, providing them with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to create culture change. Participants will learn the principles of inclusive leadership and how to embed them in their work so that all team members can thrive.

    • Increase awareness of individual identity, privilege, and power and their roles in shaping how we lead.

    • Increase leaders and managers’ awareness of barriers to inclusion and how these factors impact performance, engagement, and retention.

    • Learn tools to help you create organizational structures that foster equity and inclusion.

    • Refine skills to address common DEIB-related challenges using inclusive leadership practices.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEIB) Education and Engagement Trainings.

Elisa Glick Consulting offers customized multisession trainings for staff that will help you build diversity, equity and inclusion into your activities and culture. Our focus is on providing organizations with practical strategies to align values with organizational practices and create action steps to implement learning and increase DEIB capacity. This training is available on a range of topics including:

  • Moving Beyond Bias: Strategies for Disrupting Implicit Bias

  • Leveling Up Your Intercultural Communication Skills

  • Fostering a LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Workplace

    • Increase team members’ awareness and understanding of systemic impact, bias, and/or microaggressions.

    • Learn strategies for addressing implicit biases internally and systemically so you can create authentic inclusion.

    • Build skills to foster better communication and psychological safety and Increase team members’ appreciation for diverse cultures, perspectives, and identities.

    • Increase understanding of the LGBTQIA+ community and relevant terminology; learn queer- and trans-affirming strategies for fostering a respectful and inclusive workplace for marginalized team members.

    • Increase awareness of the important role of inclusion in the workplace, the benefits of inclusion to boost individual/team performance, and actionable steps for creating a culture where everyone feels valued, seen, and heard.

Organizational Equity Assessment Services. Includes Campus Climate Surveys.

Equity assessments are the foundation for organizational diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging efforts because they provide leaders with the information necessary to operationalize inclusion. Knowing that every organization’s DEIB journey is unique, our assessments are customized to identify areas of strength and opportunities for improvement, providing you with the data you need to implement real change.

    • Provide a baseline assessment of where you are on your DEIB journey.

    • Capture an objective overview of your organization’s equity gaps and strengths.

    • Elevate team members’ skills and capacities to institutionalize your DEIB commitments.

    • Develop an actionable plan that puts you on a clear path towards a more inclusive and successful future.

Inclusive Teaching Workshops for Faculty. Includes Cohort-Based Options.

How do higher education leaders build faculty members’ capacity to be drivers of inclusion in their own classrooms? We offer a range of customized workshops and programs that will show you how. Using Elisa Glick Consulting’s signature “Five Keys to Inclusive and Equitable Teaching,” our curriculum uses research-based best practices to build instructor self-awareness and knowledge of inclusive pedagogies; engender just experiences and outcomes for diverse student bodies; and provide instructors with concrete strategies for cultivating equitable, accessible, and inclusive learning environments for all students.

    • Increase faculty members’ awareness of social location, implicit bias, power, and privilege and how these factors impact performance, engagement, classroom climate, and learning outcomes.

    • Learn tools for developing and implementing anti-racist and LGBTQIA2S-inclusive practices and how to embed them in your own classes.

    • Refine skills to teach sensitive or controversial topics with confidence.

    • Learn tools for reducing barriers to learning and enabling access of course content for diverse learners in all modalities.