Diversifying Your Leadership Team
Learning objectives
- Explain the strategic importance of leadership diversity and its relationship to business success, innovation, and customer insight.
- Identify specific dimensions of diversity (e.g., gender, race, professional background, cognitive style) that are underrepresented within their own leadership team.
- Assess existing hiring practices to identify barriers to diversity and propose improvements that reduce bias and broaden candidate pools.
- Develop an internal communication plan that promotes inclusive hiring and leadership development measures aligned with organizational values.
- Create and improve leadership development opportunities for employees.
- Develop measurable goals with timelines and metrics to track progress toward increasing leadership diversity within the organization.
Course overview
Strong leadership teams reflect a variety of perspectives, experiences, and ways of thinking. Building leadership diversity requires intentional hiring practices, inclusive development opportunities, clear communication, and measurable goals that support long-term organizational success.
The individuals involved in the development and promotion of this course do not receive any compensation or financial benefits outside of their regular employment for their work on this course.
- 7 minutes
- Format: Video
- Tier: 1
- Course ID: 7483
English
Course Outline
- Identifying Gaps in Your Leadership Team
- Communicating Commitment to Inclusion
- Improving Hiring Practices for Leadership Roles
- Developing Inclusive Leadership Pathways
- Setting Goals and Measuring Progress