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Diversity & Inclusion: Building and Leading an Inclusive Workplace

Build the right skills to lead and foster diversity and inclusion in your organization.

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The Key Issues

Leaders at all levels must be active and qualified advocates of diversity and inclusion (D&I) to ensure it’s part of the organization’s culture and business strategy. This unique 3-day certificate programme goes beyond standard D&I courses, and helps you develop skills to become a champion of diversity and a leader of inclusive teams. You’ll learn to recognize the uniqueness and multidimensional aspects of individual identity, understand biases on a deeper level, and explore behaviors that promote trust. You will also gain knowledge and tools to help you foster a thriving culture that promotes these values. Apply what you learn in a specially designed, interactive capstone project.

Promoting real diversity & inclusion strategies

Managing inclusive meetings

Key Competences​

Understanding
bias

Being an inclusive leader Creating an inclusive vision

The Right Programme for You

You are an HR professional, senior manager or executive, and you are responsible for driving diversity and inclusion initiatives in your organization.

  • Business Professionals
Specialists, engineers, chemists, technical staff, logistics, commercial positions, project managers etc
  • New Managers
Managers of teams including team leaders with up to 3 years' experience in this role
  • Managers
Managers of teams and departments with more than 3 years' experience in this role
  • Senior Managers
Managers of managers, countries, divisions, regions companies with more than 10 years of senior management experience

Highlights

Use role plays to simulate real business situations and interactions to develop your own inclusive leadership skills.

Receive direct feedback to incorporate into your inclusive leadership development plan.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Understand why diversity and inclusion is important and beneficial for your organization
  • Reflect on the multidimensional, multicultural aspects of individual identity today
  • Understand the relationship between emotional intelligence and diversity
  • Identify intercultural leaders' challenges
  • Enhance your abilities to hold and participate in meetings that are inclusive
  • Take ownership of helping to create and manage a culture of respect, civility and trust
  • Build an inclusive leader action plan Identify characteristics of debate, discussion and dialogue in an inclusive workplace
  • Put into practice what you have learnt as soon as you get back to the office
  • Use a model to hold difficult conversations in your organization
  • Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE's highly experienced faculty

Programme Details

Diversity & Inclusion: Building and Leading an Inclusive Workplace is a 3-day hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator with former management experience in international companies.

Eight Programme Modules

1 | Introduction to Diversity and Inclusion

  • Establish a common language through definitions.
  • Understand the business imperative for diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
  • Reflect on the multidimensional, multicultural aspects of individual identity.

2 | Introduction to Diversity and Inclusion

  • Describe the importance of flexing with communication style preferences as an inclusive leader.
  • Explain your preferred communication style and those of others.
  • Recognize obstacles that ineffective listening can cause.
  • Identify the two types of micro-messages and recognize micro-inequities.

3 | Emotional Intelligence and Diversity and Inclusion

  • Understand the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Diversity.
  • Identify strengths and development needs using the Inclusive Leadership Assessment.
  • Develop a skill for facilitating teams’ ability to work effectively together.
  • Identify intercultural leaders’ challenges.

4 | Leading a Successful Multicultural Team

  • Identify strengths and development needs using the Inclusive Leadership Assessment.
  • Develop skills for facilitating a team’s ability to work effectively together.
  • Identify your ideal network to accomplish your goals and advance your career.
  • Identify leadership challenges.

5 | Conducting Difficult Conversations Successfully

  • Use a model to hold difficult conversations.
  • Identify characteristics of debate, discussion, and dialogue.
  • Practice dialogue in conversations.

6 | Your Vision and Plan for an Inclusive Workplace

  • Review the seminar’s key tools and takeaways.
  • Create an inclusive vision for your workplace.
  • Build an Inclusive Leader Action Plan.
 

7 | Capstone: Practice and Application

  • Put into practice some of your instructional learnings and personal insights from this seminar.
  • Use role-play to simulate real situations and interactions.
  • Receive feedback to incorporate into your inclusive leadership development plan.
  • Observe others’ role-plays and provide them with thoughtful feedback.

8 | Putting Your Plan into Action

  • Distill what you’ve learned from the seminar instruction, activities, and capstone.
  • Finalize your Inclusive Leader Action Plan
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Bettina
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3 days
€2,950
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24 Nov – 26 Nov 2025
Vienna
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Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

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