Upcoming Sessions
Content Overview
The Advancing Diversity and Inclusion programme is an immersive and interactive online learning experience that is delivered over five weeks at a pace that works for you and that enables you to implement learning directly in the workplace as you progress. You explore the critical issues across five core modules, and you work on your own Action Learning Project: a bespoke roadmap for change that addresses the specificities of your organisation.
Understanding barriers
- Explore systematic challenges that block the progress of talented people from underrepresented backgrounds
- Examine the biases and exclusionary norms that prevail in dominant groups and cultures and the structures and processes that amplify exclusion
- Discover the pitfalls that sabotage well-intentioned programmes and interventions
Creating impactful strategies
- Identify champions to lead inclusion throughout your organisation and design a game-changing D&I strategy
- Set the right KPIs and targets using the right data
- Build and implement fairer processes including pay audits
Building foundations
- Explore how to create a climate of psychological safety for all your people
- Shift bias-based thinking and behavioural norms that hamper the progress of underrepresented talent
- Rethink the physical and visual representation of your organisation to promote diversity and inclusion
Designing inclusive processes
- Re-design your recruitment and evaluation processes to minimise bias and reach a more diverse talent pool
- Explore how a fairer distribution of non-critical work helps tackle exclusion
- Discover how to normalise flexible working while accelerating engagement
Fostering inclusivity
- Rethink who your role models are and their symbolic impact
- Learn to design mentorship and more formal sponsorship programmes that deliver guidance and opportunities for underrepresented talent
- Discover how allyship programmes can inspire and mobilise people to become agents of change.
Your Online Learning Journey
Throughout the programme, an INSEAD Learning Coach will be guiding you and helping you maximise the impact of your learning journey.
*Please note the programme may include a pause week(s).
Action Learning Project
Working with a learning coach, you will design an Action Learning Project (ALP) that is aligned with your organisation and your personal learning objectives. The ALP involves using the tools and frameworks learnt throughout the programme to build an integrative plan to enable diversity and inclusion in your organisation. This will include three steps that align with the five modules of the programme:
1. Conduct an organisational diagnosis to scope out the key barriers to advancing diversity and inclusion in your context.
2. Build an integrated strategy to advance diversity and inclusion in your organisation.
3. Plan specific initiatives that you will implement in the next six months in your organisation.
Depending on your scope of responsibility, the integrated strategy may focus more on the interpersonal or organisational levels of analysis. For those attending the programme with a group of colleagues from the same organisation, the learning coach can help you structure a more ambitious team ALP to collaborate and work on together.
Typical Week on an INSEAD Online Programme
Each week of content follows a very clear path to facilitate learning for busy executives. The platform allows participants to learn at their own pace during each week, by viewing the content, completing assignments and engaging in discussions, taking on average 4-6 hours per week* to complete.
*This is the recommended number of hours per week however please note that working on the Action Learning Project (ALP) may require up to two additional hours/week.
