The Leadership Austin Board of Director’s invite you to attend an upcoming Beyond Diversity™ seminar conducted by Pacific Educational Group. Over the last three years, over 3,500 individuals have attended one of the seminars Leadership Austin has convening in support of the Mayor’s Task Force on Institutional Racism & Systemic Inequities. The seminar goal is to have business and community leaders from across our region have a common learning experience and shared language as we continue to wrestle with diminishing the impact of institutional racism and systemic inequities across our community.
Join Us: If interested in exploring this opportunity, please complete the Seminar Request Form below. As Leadership Austin works to model our core values of inclusiveness, we are asking for data that will help provide an experience with varying life experiences in each session. Once we know your available dates, we will send you a link to register and pay. Each session will be limited to 80 participants to ensure time for rich conversation and self-reflection. These sessions are open to all so please invite your family and friends, but each person must submit their own request form.
Cost: $375* (A limited number of scholarships will be available.)
The preference will always be to gather in person, but we will be in a virtual delivery due to community health conditions. In the virtual setting we will meet in three block sessions (attend all three).
Day 1 (9:00 – noon and 1:30 – 4:00) and Day 2 (9:00 am – noon)
- Aug 5 & 6, 2020 / virtual delivery SOLD OUT
- Aug 26 & 27, 2020 / virtual delivery SOLD OUT
- Sept 1 & 2, 2020 / virtual delivery SOLD OUT
- Oct 8 & 9, 2020 / virtual delivery SOLD OUT
- Oct 28 & 29, 2020 / virtual delivery SOLD OUT
- Nov 19 & 20, 2020 / virtual delivery SOLD OUT
- Jan 27 & 28, 2021 / virtual delivery SOLD OUT
- Feb 24 & 25, 2021 / virtual delivery SOLD OUT
- Mar 9 & 10, 2021 / virtual delivery SOLD OUT
- Apr 22 & 23, 2021 / virtual delivery SOLD OUT
- May 5 & 6, 2021 / virtual delivery
- June 16 & 17, 2021 / virtual delivery
*Seminar dates will be confirmed with a registration email for payment. We limit refunds and reschedules to family emergencies only. If these dates don’t work for you please add your name here and we will contact as new dates are added.
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More About the Training
The Task Force has recommended the Beyond Diversity™ seminar conducted by the Pacific Educational Group: called Courageous Conversation About Race: A Business Case for Improving Executive Leaders’ Racial Consciousness & Literacy. “Now in its twenty-first year of existence, Beyond Diversity™ is a powerful, personally transforming two-day seminar designed to help leaders understand the impact of race and investigate the role that racism plays in institutionalizing disparities. Engage in a thoughtful, compassionate exploration of race and racism and grapple with how each influences the culture and practice using strategies for identifying and addressing policies, programs, and practices that negatively impact achievement and serve as barriers for ALL. By now, most executives have heard the refrain that diversity is beneficial. This session moves beyond that horizon and explains how to increase diversity, foster inclusion, and establish the racial equity that will propel business and society. By describing three central principles to Courageous Conversation leadership, this seminar will introduce a protocol to discuss race, build racial consciousness, and promote the type of equity that will inspire workers to bring their whole selves to the job and do their best work.”