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Atlanta, GA | Posted: March 22, 2018
Annette Filliat
Communications Manager
Institute Diversity
annette.filliat@gatech.edu
Representing 52 campus units, 126 staff and faculty leaders joined the second cohort of the Inclusive Leaders Academy:
Joeleen Akin, Teisha Alsobrook, Sonia Alvarez-Robinson, Juan Archila, Ashley Beavers, Alex Becking, Lisa Berrien, Joe Blount, Brian Bonus, J. Candice Bovian, Gwenda Bryant, Latanya Buckner, Victoria Burse, Patricia Burton, Jennifer Camp, Vivian Campbell, Jessica Carter, Kathryn Colegrove, Stacy Connell, Christine Conwell, Carla Cook, Jacquline Cox, Sheila Cranman, Linda Daniels, Sherry Davidson, Dimetra Diggs-Butler, Glenda Duncan, Eulalia Dupree, Jarrett Ellis, Donna Ennis, Susann Estroff, Jonathan Etress, Mary Evans, Markeisha Everett, Patrice Faison, Robin Finey, Melissa Foulger, Kira Freeman, Ricardo Garcia Bahamonde, Nancy Gimbel, Lisa-Marie Godfrey, Darrell Gray, Kim Harrington, Kenya Harrison, Laura Haynes, Amy Henry, Sophia Herbert-Peterson, Diley Hernandez, Shelley Hildebrand, Maria Hunter, Jyldyz Ismailova-Hughes, Tia Jackson-Truitt, Will Jimerson, Cecelia Jones, Jamison Keller, Pat Kelsey, Moon Kim, Tanika Kyle, Sharon Lawrence, Marvin Lewis, Katie Lloyd, Gabrielle Lolley, Anne Lynch, Kelly MacArthur, Kim MacLeod, Thomas (Ben) Mason, Valerie Mastrangelo, Candice McLemore, Stephanie Merrick, Maggie Miller, Rodney Mirabel, Manisha Mishra, Cynthia Moore, Kathleen Moore, Twyla Moore, Jennifer Mullins, Sherry Murray, Victoria Nail-Taylor, De'Angelo Neely, Daniel Nemec, Leslie O'Neill, Alison Onstine, Alina Opreanu, Michael Oxman, Andrew Pasch, Tamara Pearson, Cheytoria Phillips, Elizabeth Punch, Cassandra Railey, Andy Register, Recha Reid, Julie Ridings, Atira Rochester, Mont Rogers, Maureen Rouhi, Jennifer Salazar, Michael Sewell, Stephanie Sigler, Julia Snell, Gail Spatt, Marcia Bull Stadeker, Christen Steele, John Stein, Jennifer Sternecker, Iva Stewart-Barre, Shawn Stinson, Byron Stokes, Sarah Strohmenger, Beril Toktay, Frank Trammer, Richard Utz, Gabe Vannice, Susan Volkert, Chris Walker, Serena Wallace, Olivia Watkins, Donald Webster, Robert Wellman, Howard Wertheimer, Joy West, Kimberly White, Jennifer Wooley, Jason Wright, Torise Young, Carla Zachery, and Nazia Zakir
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Following a successful program launch last year, 126 staff and faculty leaders from 52 campus units have joined the second cohort of the Inclusive Leaders Academy and participated in the program’s kickoff on February 6.
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Inclusive Leaders Academy Leadership and Featured Speaker
Inclusive Leaders Academy Kickoff
Inclusive Leaders Academy Second Cohort 
Inclusive Leaders Academy Curriculum Following a successful program launch last year, 126 staff and faculty leaders from 52 campus units have joined the second cohort of the Inclusive Leaders Academy and participated in the program’s kickoff on February 6. Participants from both the first and second cohorts came together to hear featured presenter Stephen Young discuss “MicroInequities: Managing Unconscious Bias.”
“We’re thrilled that so many staff and faculty leaders have joined the second cohort,” said Cheryl Cofield, director of inclusion and engagement and co-founder of the Inclusive Leaders Academy. “Once the second cohort completes the program this semester, we will have engaged more than 500 campus leaders with the curriculum and created more than 200 ‘Culture Champions.’” Culture Champions are committed to modeling inclusivity and shifting the culture towards leadership excellence and inclusive excellence.
The Inclusive Leaders Academy is a professional leadership and legacy development program for staff, faculty administrators, and research leaders at Georgia Tech. Developed by Institute Diversity’s Staff Diversity, Inclusion, and Engagement (SDIE) unit, the curriculum was designed to blend neuroscience and social science in ways that spark insights and guide personal transformation.
Key learning benefits of the Inclusive Leaders Academy – and core curriculum topic areas – facilitate self-awareness, social intelligence, and co-active leadership, which have been identified as critical areas for leadership development. Curriculum content has been curated from the NeuroLeadership Institute on unconscious bias and from Brave Leaders Inc on Daring Leadership: The Four Pillars of Courage, based on the research of Brené Brown.
According to survey responses from the first cohort, 100 percent would recommend the unconscious bias content from the NeuroLeadership Institute, and 90 percent would recommend the Daring Leadership: The Four Pillars of Courage content. Additionally, 98 percent would recommend all wisdom labs and group coaching sessions to future participants.
In 2018, the Inclusive Leaders Academy has been condensed from an eight-month to a four-month program based on lessons learned and current capacity for execution. This year’s curriculum expands on the model of an individualized path of self-guided learning, interactive practice, and knowledge integration through wisdom labs, group coaching sessions, and dialogue discussions. Upon completing 12-24 hours of learning, participants will receive a “Culture Champion” certificate at the end of this semester.
Andy Register, chief scientist in the Electronic Systems Laboratory at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), remarked, “I was motivated to participate in the Inclusive Leaders Academy because greater diversity at GTRI is critical to our future as an exceptional research organization, and there is a disparity in the number of women engineers at GTRI compared to the number of women earning engineering degrees from Georgia Tech.”
SDIE is also offering an executive and senior leadership coaching program through the Inclusive Leaders Academy this year. Selected participants – in positions of executive director or associate chair and above – will participate in the same Inclusive Leaders Academy online curriculum and complete up to three individual 60-minute coaching sessions or experiential reflective activities by May.
“I hope to leave the Inclusive Leaders Academy with specific tools that will inform and guide my decision-making about important processes such as hiring, tenure and promotion, and performance reviews,” stated Richard Utz, chair and professor, School of Literature, Media, and Communication. “More generally, I also hope for a renewed sense of solidarity to be part of a campus culture in which inclusiveness is at the heart of all we do.”
“There is a mindful leadership movement toward managing organizational culture that is growing across the country, and as we’ve learned, we cannot separate leadership and culture,” said Pearl Alexander, executive director of diversity, inclusion, and engagement and co-founder of the Inclusive Leaders Academy. “At Georgia Tech, we are responding to the desire for leadership development through the Inclusive Leaders Academy as the work is focused on practicing valued leadership behaviors that, in turn, foster inclusivity, healthy levels of engagement, and resilience in our workforce.”
To view the Inclusive Leaders Academy video sizzle reel, visit https://youtu.be/6tNpT1V54J0, and to learn more, visit www.sdie.gatech.edu/inclusiveleadersacademy.
