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Every consulting engagement Stacy is brought on for and every workshop she facilitates is rooted in—and is also designed to advance—the values of diversity, inclusivity and equity in the workplace. Drawing on a variety of pedagogical methods, Stacy’s workshops engage teams with insights, resources and frameworks that are crucial to understanding and addressing complex social issues. Her aim is to help her clients ensure that the workplaces they foster are places that work fairly for everyone.
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WORKSHOP:

Understanding Unconscious Bias and Its Impact

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WORKSHOP:

Enhancing Your Strategic Network

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WORKSHOP:

Managing Visibility

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WORKSHOP:

Bystander Awareness: Lessons in Civil Courage

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Workshop: Understanding Unconscious Bias and Its Impact

Interpersonal interactions at work and in other organizational contexts are undergirded by unconscious biases—pervasive but unspoken thoughts, feelings or beliefs that shape our behaviors. Often, we’re not even aware that these unconscious biases are shaping our decisions around how we interact with others. Consciously, we have an illusion of objectivity and fairness in how we deal with those around us. But contrary to our conscious intentions, unconscious bias is widely prevalent, robust and, unfortunately, a cause of exclusion and prejudice. Most importantly, unconscious bias is costly to both organizations and the individuals in them.
Understanding Unconscious Bias and Its Impact provides participants with research, best practices and tools for identifying unconscious bias. Participants are also given methodologies to uncover and address them. Participants learn about the sources of unconscious bias and discuss what actions to take to minimize the impact of unconscious bias at the individual, group and organizational levels.
The workshop is participatory in nature, using mini-cases, video scenarios and participant experiences as tools to delve into the impacts of unconscious bias.
In this workshop, we will:
  • Discuss what is meant by “unconscious bias” and identify sources of this phenomenon
  • Explore processes by which unconscious bias occurs
  • Use a customized vignette as well as video clips and participant experiences to illustrate unconscious bias
  • Identify action steps at individual, group and organizational levels to counter unconscious bias
  • Collaborate as a learning community to distill lessons and next steps that each participant can take away from the workshop

To bring this workshop to your organization, virtually or live, contact Stacy >

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Workshop: Enhancing Your Strategic Network

No one who “makes it” does so alone. We all need assistance as we strive to meet our goals and achieve our dreams.
Enhancing Your Strategic Network presents a framework to manage our strategic networks, and the relationships in them, more effectively. Participants are guided through core networking concepts and dimensions in preparation to analyze their networks. Through network mapping, and by focusing on a specific leadership goal, participants analyze their networks and develop an action to fill identified “network gaps” in a structured, systematic way. At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will have a better understanding of their strengths and developmental opportunities in relation to their networks. Participants will leave the workshop with a plan for moving forward toward their leadership goal—with the help they need.
In this workshop, we will:
  • Define networking and identify the importance of using this process strategically
  • Work through a proven framework to manage networks, and the relationships in them, more effectively
  • Use network mapping as a tool to identify developmental opportunities or network “gaps”
  • Identify action steps to strengthen existing network ties or build new ones in the service of meeting participant leadership goals
  • Collaborate as a learning community to distill lessons and next steps that each participant can take away from the workshop

To bring this workshop to your organization, virtually or live, contact Stacy >

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

- African Proverb

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Workshop: Managing Visibility

What is visibility? At its most basic level, visibility is the state of being seen and being able to see.

Managing Visibility focuses on how we manage our presence— or visibility—within our organizations. Managing our own visibility requires us to be in touch not only with how we feel about various aspects of our identity, but also how others may perceive us. As we engage with this topic, it’s important to shine a light on the aspects of our identity that empower us as well as areas where we may feel vulnerable.  

In this workshop, we will use a range of interactive exercises that provide insight into our internal dialogue and our external experience of being perceived. We’ll engage in discussion about the challenges of being too visible (hyper-visible) or not visible enough (in-visible). We’ll also explore the concept of “tempered visibility”—which involves aspects of both standing out and blending in—and identify actions we can take to temper it.  

Throughout the workshop, we will:

  • Further define managing visibility and the importance of using this process strategically
  • Gain insight into the continuum of visibility strategies, from standing out to blending in
  • Explore tempered visibility as a strategy, drawing on the full continuum
  • Simulate the internal conversation around managing visibility through an interactive exercise
  • Delve into unconscious bias as an external factor impacting visibility
  • Identify action steps to use visibility strategies in the service of meeting participant leadership goals
  • Collaborate as a learning community to distill lessons and next steps that each participant can take away from the workshop

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Workshop: Bystander Awareness: Lessons in Civil Courage

Organizational decisions or behaviors that exclude certain individual or groups from both opportunities and rewards don’t happen in a vacuum. There are often bystanders who see acts of exclusion happening right in front of them and, for whatever reason, decide to keep their heads down. But exercising the courage to speak up in the face of exclusion or prejudice is key to organizational efforts to foster a culture the embraces inclusion and diversity as a strength.

Bystander Awareness: Lessons in Civil Courage takes the understanding of diversity below the surface and provides specific strategies for building more respectful organizations and skills for intervention. Participants are guided through a history of the bystander phenomenon, through a discussion of the Kitty Genovese incident as well as relevant social psychological theories (such as diffusion of responsibility). Using “bystander scenarios,” participants are given an opportunity to practice speaking up and acting in response to hypothetical inequities. Strategies are provided to support participants in being active bystanders for institutional change.

In this workshop, we will:

  • Define bystander awareness and explore the historical background of this historical psychological process
  • Practice interventions in a safe space so that participants feel ready to utilize them
  • Think through various scenarios illustrating examples of bystander behavior
  • Consider cultural differences in appropriate interventions
  • Learn from other participants’ experiences and expand possible menu of responses
  • Identify action steps to take when faced with situations in which bystander behavior may occur
  • Collaborate as a learning community to distill lessons and next steps that each participant can take to make upstanding behavior more open, expected and legitimate

To bring this workshop to your organization, virtually or live, contact Stacy >

If you’d like to talk about how I can help your organization and its people become the best they can be, please get in touch.

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