Diversity Beyond Lip Service, Harris, La`Wana

The ugly truth about diversity is that some people worry they must give up their power for others to have a chance. LaWana Harriss Inclusion Coaching method helps people realize that sharing power isnt the same as losing it.

The elephant in the room with diversity work is that people with privilege must use it to allow others equal access to power. This is often why diversity efforts falter--people believe in diversity until they feel that they have to give something up. How do we talk them through this shift?

LaWana Harris introduces Inclusion Coaching, a new tool based on cutting-edge research that identifies the stages of preparation, implementation, and self-work necessary to help individuals, teams, and organizations build a sustainable culture of inclusion. Harriss six-stage COMMIT model--Commit to courageous action, Open your eyes and ears, Move beyond lip service, Make room for controversy and conflict, Invite new perspectives, and Tell the truth even when it hurts--provides a proven process for making people aware of their own conscious and unconscious biases and concrete steps to make inclusion an embedded reality.