Carlos Andrés Gómez: Diversity, Equity, & Healthy Masculinity

Programs

Toward a Culturally-Affirming & Inclusive Workplace

Join Carlos Andrés Gómez, best-selling author and equity and inclusion consultant, for this interactive seminar that will explore and identify actionable strategies for making the workplace more culturally-responsive, affirming, and inclusive. What concrete approaches can be implemented that allow the workplace to promote a greater sense of belonging for everyone? How can we develop systems to identify (and then address) where our gaps in knowledge and understanding persist? And how can that self-reflection be a galvanizing opportunity toward not just greater equity and inclusion but, also, in support of an ever innovative and thriving company? With history, intersectionality, and personal experience as anchors for this skills-based training, participants will leave this workshop better-equipped to create and nurture a workplace that embraces colleagues from all walks of life.

ROIs:

• Participants will comprehend concepts related to diversity, social identity, equity, and inclusion.
• Participants will build cultural competency and awareness about unconscious bias, structural and systemic inequity, and intersectionality.
• Participants will examine the effect of cultural norms on policies, established practices, and ways of thinking, particularly as it relates to social identity and equity.
• Participants will analyze common pitfalls and obstacles that undermine equity and inclusion.
• Participants will identify concrete strategies to be more culturally-responsive, affirming, and inclusive.

Reimagining Gender: Building an Inclusive Workplace Culture

This interactive session will examine the ways in which we have been taught to think about gender. More specifically: what expectations and assumptions have we been taught to associate with gender? And how do those ideas impact how we think about ourselves, navigate the world, and interact with each other? How do our other identities impact how we understand and experience gender? Using interactive exercises and personal experience as catalysts for discussion, participants will collectively explore these concepts and work to find strategies to confront gender bias in the workplace.

ROIs:

• Participants will build competency and awareness about unconscious gender bias, sexism, and transphobia.
• Participants will examine the effect of friends, family, culture, technology, and media on behavior and ways of thinking, as it relates to gender.
• Participants will identify concrete strategies to counteract gender bias, sexism, and transphobia.

‘But I Don’t See Color’ and other Treacherous Workplace Mindsets

This interactive session will explore how our identities (race, gender, sexuality, etc.) impact how we experience the world. How might ‘not seeing color (or gender)’ in fact promote bias and exclusion? Why do I feel a certain way when a co-worker receives a promotion instead of me? In what ways might a co-worker’s common experiences with either exclusion or access feel foreign to me? We will investigate structural and unconscious bias, as well as the varied dimensions of privilege. Finally, this interactive and generative session will ask participants to identify concrete strategies for counteracting bias and inequity in the workplace.

ROIs:

• Participants will comprehend concepts related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Participants will build cultural competency and awareness about unconscious bias, structural and systemic inequity, and how to apply that knowledge to your workplace.
• Participants will identify concrete strategies to counteract bias and inequity.

Writing Workshop: Storytelling toward a More Just Workplace

This writing workshop asks participants to use their personal experiences as a means of identifying the challenges to achieving equity and inclusion in the workplace. We guide your team through a structured conversation as a way of generating solutions to combat prejudice and discrimination in your company. This session gives participants the opportunity to voluntarily share their writing and will challenge the group to draft communal strategies toward solutions, with facilitated guidance and support throughout.

ROIs:

• Participants will comprehend concepts and strategies related to writing personal storytelling, as well as equity and inclusion.
• Participants will analyze the influence of socialized roles and cultural norms on causing unconscious bias and systemic inequity.
• Participants will examine their role in perpetuating practices and policies that promote inequity or exclusion.

Tailored Workshop for your Organization

(Adaptable for your needs)

We have a wide range of additional program offerings. Please tell us the specific challenges your team is facing when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as the outcomes you are hoping to achieve. From there, and with your guidance and input, we will craft a workshop that honors your vision during our time together.