Your Role in Shaping Inclusive Climates
Presenter: Etta Ward
Date: Friday, January 20, 2023
Time: 1:30 - 3 p.m.
Location: Zoom
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Event Overview
This session will examine sources of inclusion (organizational, managerial, and individual) and explore several practices that fostering inclusion in the unit. The emphasis will be on the documented fact that leaders set the culture by their actions, and setting clear goals and expectations is critical to the process of establishing an inclusive culture that drives team performances and innovation.
Etta Ward’s Bio
For 20 years, she has led research development programs and operations within Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Her primary role is to advance the institutional research mission through faculty research and professional development. She is a certified facilitator with the National Research Mentoring Network for mentor training and a Research Principal facilitator with the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences.
She has built a body of work around effective mentorship—especially, targeting minority and marginalized populations. She leads many diversity and inclusion programs focused on ways to bring people safely to and help sustain conversations on race and inclusive excellence. She has designed programming that helps leaders develop tactics that foster inclusive engagement, identify and leverage privilege for inclusion, shape inclusive climates where all are valued and feel a sense of belonging, and create a culture of effective mentorship across differences.