Course information
Course title
How to Measure and Boost Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with GDEIB
Course Content
Future-focused organizations want to ensure long-term sustainability of our world and the people in our world. To optimize organizational results, creativity, problem solving, talent management and engagement, operations and innovation, organizational leaders need to adopt inclusive approaches, management strategies and styles that incorporate different perspectives, cognitive, cultural and linguistic differences, and collaboration.
Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmarks (GDEIB) are the standards for organizations around the world. The GDIB helps organizations determine strategy and measure progress in managing diversity and fostering inclusion. Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Benchmarks Standards help by creating more equitable and better functioning organizations, confronting racism, sexism, and all forms of oppression, cultivate trust, acceptance, physical and psychological safety, lead inclusively, respond with agility, and thrive through disruption, promote wellness and self-care as ingredients for lasting change and contribute to creating a sustainable world.
Takeaways
- What is GDEIB, its approaches, dimensions, categories and benchmarks.
- Groom executives in using GDEIB Standards for gap analysis, benchmarking and strategy formulation at organization level.
- Facilitate organizations in progressive transformation from using diversity defensively as a matter of legal/ethical compliance to position it as a strategic asset to compete in the market.
Training methods
- The participants will have access to information through presentation, case study and exercises.
About the Instructors
Zahid Mubarik
CEO of HR Metrics and SHRM USA Partner in Pakistan, Zahid is a global expert in human capital measurement metrics/analytics. The only HR Leader from Asia to become member ISO Technical Committee 260, Zahid actively participated in HR standards meetings around the world, and actively contributed towards the development of Human Capital Reporting Standard. Elected as Global Convener of ISO HR Metrics Standards Working Group, is a distinguished speaker in international HR conferences/seminars. Introduced SHRM Competency based HR Certification in Pakistan and developed more than 200 SHRM Certified professionals. Member of the Board of Directors at The Centre for Global Inclusion USA. He introduced Global Diversity and Inclusion Benchmarks Standards in Pakistan, and is the Chief Editor of HR Magazine Workforce Tomorrow.
Lynda White
Lynda is President at McLeod White and Associates. She was previously global diversity leader for RBC Financial, operating in approximately 30 countries, with 60,000 people. Her team did foundational change and implementation work in the areas of gender, diversity, and disability, garnering awards for the organization, benchmarked by others, resulting in RBC’s continuing presence as a leader today. She has chaired and been a member of industry, federal government task forces, and committees, numerous not-for-profit boards. She continues to be a strategist, change leader, presenter, guest lecturer, and workshop leader globally, on organization development, change, and diversity issues. She is a Past President of the Diversity Collegium and an Expert Panelist of the Global D, E & I Benchmarks, continuing since 2006.