Why does B.O.L.D. work? This diversity training in the workplace program extends your organizational competitive advantage in developing and retaining a robust pipeline of leadership talent.

B.O.L.D. acts as a catalyst to enhance the capacity and elevate the impact of diverse leaders. You will experience a high-engagement, dynamic approach to managing diversity and inclusion in the workplace. The program design enaables the leader’s immediate, on-the-job application and engagement, with the designated employer-sponsor, to support organizational change management. The content focuses on innovation and the integration of the talent learnings and shared experiences to enhance individual, team and organizational dynamics and synergies.

B.O.L.D. is Distinctive

Multi-Sector, Multi-Industry, Diversity Integration
- Deep learning and sharing among a peer cohort with a shared experience of the unique issues facing diverse leaders and teams
- Optimum engagement, dialogue and activities in exploring and understanding common and unique leadership, diversity and inclusion priorities and challenges in the private, public and non-profit sectors
Active Integration, Sustainability, Accountability
- Intentional, structured employer-sponsor talent dialogue to catalyze integration of insights, ideas and new practices that can support organizational needs, priorities and transformative actions
- Long-term tracking of B.O.L.D. leaders through compilation of data and consultations, to measure progress, outcomes, and impact related to a new paradigm of leadership diversity and inclusion
Unique Curriculum Design
- Combines the best from Canada’s leading university, human capital and diversity specialists
- Features the “Straight Talk With The CEO“ series, case studies, action learning, simulations, and industry/community/arts leaders
- Utilizes non-traditional learning formats and techniques from the arts, business and culture to stimulate greater awareness and enhanced team dynamics
B.O.L.D. Participants Gain
- GREATER CREDIBILITY – Leadership Skills Coaching Modules
  - Effective Communications – Across Cultures and Beyond Borders
  - Strategic Influence & Negotiation – Across Diverse Teams
  - Personal Leadership Brand Management and Mastery
- GREATER CONFIDENCE – Individual Leadership Coaching
  - Customized support as you work through issues and opportunities faced with your team, your employer-sponsor, internal and external stakeholders
  - Gain balance and clarity in all aspects of your life that support your career success
- GREATER CONNECTIONS – Peer Group Coaching
  - Leverage the diversity of knowledge, perspectives and experiences of peers from other industries and sectors
  - Explore and develop better ways to embed leadership diversity and inclusion into your daily practices and enhance the organization’s cultural dexterity
Who Should Attend

High-potential, high performing leaders of diverse cultural backgrounds and those leading diverse culture teams:
- Committed to professional and organizational development
- On a career trajectory to the progressively senior positions
- Capacity to be an advocate and agent for change
- With a track record of achievement in effectively managing teams or initiatives
Why 8 Months
- Embed diversity and inclusion with greater impact into your organization
- Establish consistent, rigorous attention to and application of new leadership skills set
- Break down silos and build new collaborations
- Transform knowledge into applied intelligence
- Real-time experiential learning – test what works and what doesn’t
Program Schedule – 2019
- Three one-day leadership coaching modules
- Three one-on-one coaching sessions
- Three peer-group facilitated coaching sessions
Wednesday, April 24 – 4:30-6:30pm
Welcome Event

Thursday, April 25 – 9:00am-4:30pm
Effective Communications – Across Cultures & Beyond Borders

Thursday, May 16 – Morning
Peer Group Coaching Session

Thursday, June 20 – 9:00am-4:30pm
Strategic Influence & Negotiation – Across Diverse Teams

Thursday, July 18 – Morning
Peer Group Coaching Session

Thursday, Aug. 22 – 9:00am-4:30pm
Personal Leadership Brand Management and Mastery

Thursday, Sept. 12 – Morning
Peer Group Coaching Session

September to November
Three one-on-one coaching sessions

Thursday, Nov. 7
Certificate and Celebration Event

- “The B.O.L.D. program enabled me to approach challenges and solve problems in new ways and learn how my unique assets and abilities strengthen my organization. B.O.L.D. casts diversity and inclusion in a new light and provides insight into how other organizations understand and embrace diversity.”
  
  M. Moshinsky, Assistant Negotiator, Government of Canada Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada

Course content details

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1 day

Effective Communications – Across Cultures & Beyond Borders

Full-day leadership coaching module

Command conversations and present compelling business cases using unique tools
Break through communication barriers and build consensus across race, cultures and gender differences in leading change

1 day

Peer Group Coaching Session

Morning

Peer Group Coaching Session, Morning

1 day

Strategic Influence & Negotiation - Across Diverse Teams

Full-day leadership coaching module

Leverage critical thinking and skills that help flex leadership styles to excel in managing diverse business teams and sustaining inclusive and culturally competent workplaces
Hone strategies and gain tools to heighten influence, collaboration and shared accountability that align to organizational priorities

1 day

Peer Group Coaching Session

Peer Group Session, Morning

1 day

Personal Leadership Brand Management and Mastery

Full-day leadership coaching module

Power up your diverse leadership value proposition and unique individual brand with a razor-sharp vision and assertive personal action plan
Expand influential relationships and diverse professional networks that connect you to a supply chain of resources and supports to boost organizational perspectives and outcomes.

1 day