Whether You Realize It or Not, Even Woke Organizations Need to Learn How to Interrupt Their Participation in Systemic Racism

Why does addressing systemic racism matter in your workplace? Why do so many “solutions” to systemic racism ultimately reproduce, maintain, and even amplify the problem? Why is it so hard for companies to recruit, hire and retain people of color?

Think about it. Every day a new report or headline emerges about companies and organizations that claim to be inclusive engaging in practices that demonstrate bias against people of color.

That’s because our current climate shifts our focus to the wrong thing. Instead of paying attention to the unaddressed history of systemic racial inequity, we focus on the actions of individuals.

While we’re looking for who to blame for racial injustice, we’re ignoring the organizational culture and practices that permitted the behavior in the first place.

When you don’t understand how your organization is shaped by White dominant cultural norms and values, any effort you make to ensure racial equality will ultimately be ineffective.

In this webinar, you’ll understand how structural impediments, unconscious biases and explicit patterns of discrimination against people of color (and other marginalized groups), hurt your organization.

We’ll also do a power analysis that builds your capacity to identify and understand the dynamics of systemic racism and white supremacy culture in your organization, and uncover how these create barriers to racial inclusion and equity.

You’ll be invited to explore how individuals become co-opted by institutionalized socioeconomic power arrangements, and thus, become perpetrators of unjust systems.

The webinar won’t just give you an analysis of the “problem,” it will also share tips on behaviors and practices that you can use daily to interrupt patterns of inequity. It introduces our strategic methods to help people dismantle systemic forms of oppression and build cultural and racial equity.

So much is a stake for us right now. Individual action and transformation – while important – are only the beginning. You CAN grow your impact by calling on your organizations to reach a different level of accountability for people of color!

In this webinar you will:

• Acknowledge unconscious biases and patterns of discrimination that occur within your organization
• Apply a racial power analysis to your workplace
• Identify barriers within your organization that lead to exclusion and inequity
• Learn daily practices you can use to interrupt patterns of racial hierarchy
• Discover strategic methods to build an organizational culture based on racial equity