A diverse workforce brings different perspectives, new ideas, and creative innovation to the workplace.
Employers should actively foster, encourage, and promote inclusiveness, mutual respect, acceptance and open-mindedness among their employees.
Understanding and embracing our differences creates a culture of mutual respect and dignity.
Our fun and interactive cultural awareness workshops help employees feel comfortable interacting and learning from individuals of different genders, sexual orientations, ethnicity, ages, and religions.
“The whole training was awesome! Loved it!”
—Kelly G.
Generation Diversity in the Workplace: Generations differ by the way you were raised, affecting how you view the world. This workshop aims to bind people of all ages together. “Generational socialization matters just as much as any other identity.” This is a workshop for everyone—individual or team.
Respect and Dignity in the Workplace: A newly developed course, this workshop looks at differences cross-culturally. It examines respect and how its ties to language differ, giving participants another lens to bring to the table. Designed for those in leadership roles, it’s aim is to stop making language a minefield and allow leaders to give it a second thought.
Managing Multicultural Teams: Designed for those in leadership roles, this workshop explores how you can best guide your team when culturally-based challenges occur. Don't allow the results of a lack of exposure to different cultures impair the effectiveness of your team or work environment.
“The small group work allowed us to learn about each other and share ideas which prompted real world application of the course materials.”
—Colby T.
Instructor Kimberly McLaughlin-Smith
Kimberly brings two decades of experience driving positive change in the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) industry. As the UNCW Diversity Inclusion Learning Development Specialist, Kimberly spearheads initiatives and develops programs that help transform organizational culture, build a more inclusive and equitable workforce, and cultivate connections between various groups. Kimberly is a seasoned facilitator, educator, and State Certified Lead Employee Mediator. She actively engages with all levels of leadership and gives all voices a platform for collaboration.
Kimberly also provides a 4-hour diversity workshop as part of our Leadership Academy.