Leadership for Diversity Institute

The Leadership for Diversity Institute teaches participants hands-on, practical skills for building cultural competency, welcoming diversity, and increasing unity and inclusion.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
A: Diversity and Inclusion Skills
These skills include:
 Valuing and welcoming similarities and differences among group members and staff;
 Examining the misinformation that impacts our behavior toward others;
 Understanding the role identity plays in leadership;
 Identifying the harmful effects of oppression on one’s own group;
 Preventing and interrupting bigoted remarks and behaviors;
 Learning how to be an ally to all groups.
B: How to Integrate NCBI Principles and Practices into Your Leadership - Participants practice how to implement NCBI skills and practices in their own workplace and community settings. Individual coaching is provided in these skills:
 Leading effective meetings that include everyone’s voice;
 Building a team of support for one’s own leadership;
 Structuring effective, respectful conversations about difference; and
 Increasing cultural competency.
C: How to Listen to Concerns Underneath Controversial Issues - Participants will learn skills to move hotly contested issues forward and reframe the debate in a way that builds bridges.
D: How to partner with NCBI to build a local community, campus or organizational

Contact the hotel directly to make your reservations:
Crowne Plaza Rockville
3 Research Court
Rockville, MD 20850
301-840-0200
Parking is available for hotel guests.
This is an “all suites hotel”. Blocks

Early hotel registration deadlines:
APRIL Leadership for Diversity
Institute -- $139.00/night until March 22
NOVEMBER Leadership for Diversity
Institute -- $139.00/night until October 4