Through Partnership with Coppedge Consulting and their relationship with Greenfield Community College, Love Is A Parable will present as part of their DEI Initiative.

Program Overview

GCC and Coppedge Consulting have assembled a team of diversity, equity and inclusion experts to enact genuine social change within your company culture. Join GCC president Yves Salomon-Fernández and Lakisha Coppedge for this lunchtime webinar to learn more about this new leadership series that kicks off in June! RSVP for the Zoom link.

About the series

Leadership DEI: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leadership Program for Leaders Across Roles

Embracing, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) has moved beyond being socially and morally correct approaches to also becoming a business imperative for enterprises and organizations that want to flourish in the 21st century, as our country is becoming more plural. The United States is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse. From the Baby Boomer to the Gen Alpha generation, our country has progressively become more diverse leading demographers to predict that by 2045 the U.S. will become a minority white country. By 2060, the country is expected to become a full plurality, meaning that no single race or ethnicity will hold a majority. Today’s elementary school children are the most diverse that our country has ever seen. They are your current and future customers, influencers, and employees and they are making their voices heard, even at their young age.

In 2021, Greta Thunberg, the Swedish activist who inspired the global climate demonstrations across all continents turned 18. Besides being vocal and effective users of social media, this GenZ generation knows how to harness the power of their older Millennial siblings, their GenX parents, Boomer grandparents, and their younger Gen Alpha siblings to make their messages heard. Businesses that cannot communicate with a diverse clientele, foster and retain a diverse employee base will encounter difficulties thriving in a changing world.

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership Program is a new initiative of Greenfield Community College developed in partnership with Coppedge Consulting’s and delivered by local experts to help leaders develop the cultural dexterity to lead and manage effectively for the 21st-century workforce. The program’s conception of diversity is inclusive and one that embraces all the dimensions of difference including race, ethnicity, gender, identities, age, and ability.

This certificate program is intended to train leaders across roles and business sectors to foster an inclusive environment for the country and community that we are now and that we are becoming. The certificate comprises five modules and begins with training on cultural humility and highlights selected aspects of our country’s history that emphasized division, inequality, and inequity through both policy and practice.  This will be important to better understand some of the roots of structural racism, prejudice, bias, and inequity in the U.S. We will also address some of the ways that, through laws and policies at the federal government, the country sought to mitigate the impact of these historical practices.

Program Business Benefits: Successful completion of the program will help staff show up without fear of being their true selves.    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 fueled other marginalized and disenfranchised groups to leverage legislative change.  Therefore, broadening participants’ understanding of the various acts of discrimination that spawn from systemic injustices centered around racial inequities, and oppressions sharpen one’s understanding of the need for continual DEI infusion in leadership and business sectors.  In doing so, embraces a broader vision of success that encompasses learning, innovation, creativity, flexibility, equity, retention, and human dignity.  

Program Outcomes: Participants will increase knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward impactful growth, self & business model assessment & action plans for aligning inclusive and equitable business practice and policy across cultures, intersectionalities, and generations.  Outcomes are based upon the willingness and openness of each participant to authentically engage in the training content, active engagement in activities, and completion of pre and post-assessments. 

Module Options: The certificate program is implemented in FIVE key modules.  The modules are available individually or as a package for maximum impact.   Businesses will appreciate the diversity in program options to include all learners from entry-level to senior-level staff.