Program Summary

In thriving workplaces and communities, everyone contributes. Understanding the circumstances and dynamics that create true diversity, equity and inclusion is crucial to developing workplaces and communities that excel and thrive.

This online learning experience offers an expanded focus from previous years, with an updated format and new resources. The 8-week program is designed to be more accessible – reducing the emails to two per week, including a summary email that allows participants to stay involved even when time is short. This year’s Innovation Challenge will focus on:

• How to create cultures that support creativity and flourishing rather than ‘othering’, exclusion, and unhealthy power dynamics.
• How patterns of exclusion or inclusion play out for various experiences such as race, gender, religious affiliation, ability, and cultural differences.
• Stories and case studies of how organizations are taking action.
• Leading beyond the organization by taking collective action with others in the community to have greater influence locally and at the state level.
• The NH context, resources and leaders working on these issues, to understand how best to support, amplify, and/or complement this work.

We encourage you to engage a team from your company to take on the challenge together and support each other in creating a more inclusive and diverse workplace!

Challenge Outline

Weekly email prompts
With all new content, but slower-paced than previous years’ Learning Challenge, the Innovation Lab will offer one main email every Tuesday, followed by a shorter highlight/summary email on Fridays. Each email has a theme, with links to articles, videos, podcasts or other resources, while questions encourage both personal and team reflection.

Four online dialogues
In online meetings, participants can join facilitated dialogue sessions with other organizational leaders to reflect and consider how to take action and invest resources for change in the most effective ways.

Schedule

Registration

The DEI Workplace Innovation Challenge is FREE for all NHBSR members.

• Non-member organizations can sign up for an organization-wide subscription fee of $750 (unlimited employee registrations).
• Individuals can subscribe at the individual rate of $150.
• Please reach out to zeina@nhbsr.org for scholarship requests.