7th Equality, Diversity and Inclusion International Conference, 8-10 June, 2014
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STREAM PROPOSALOctober 6, 2013
EDI 2014 Heather R. Wishik, J.D. and Martin N. Davidson, PhD
Introduction and rationale
During the 2012 and 2013 EDI conferences, with the support of Professor Lize Booysen and her colleagues, we facilitated workshops during the first day of the conference as part of the Globally Inclusive Leadership stream. Feedback from participants, many of whom were practitioners in government agencies and universities, was that more access to practitioner workshops would be a welcome addition to the EDI program. In this spirit, we now propose a whole stream of inclusion practices in the form of workshops.
Stream TitleInclusion Practices
Stream Description
This stream invites practitioners and consultants to share exercises and ways of working with groups and organizations on inclusion. All proposals are to be in the form of participatory workshops so that attendees can experience interactive approaches for use with groups to address matters of inclusion.
The intent of this stream is to provide participants with tools and ways of working with groups that they can take home and facilitate themselves or with colleagues. This means workshop proposals should include agreement to provide, with appropriate acknowledgment of the author(s) and source(s), participants with digital and/or hard copy access to any accompanying slides, training designs, instructor manuals and/or handouts. This is in the spirit of “open source materials.”
Proposed workshops may be of various lengths. The regularly scheduled time segments of the two and a half day conference are 1.5 hours. A proposed workshop could take part of one such segment, a whole segment or more than one segment. We recommend that the workshop length proposed include at least 15 minutes and up to 30 minutes for questions and discussion from participants about how to deliver and/or adapt to various contexts the exercises or form of group work just facilitated.
Research Questions
Workshops, or the exercises in proposals, might address topics such as:team and work group collaborative inclusion; newcomer inclusion; virtual work team inclusion; marginalization and centrality; dominance and subordinance;and/or international/multinational work group inclusion. Proposals for additional topics related to inclusion are welcomed. Proposals could also involve specific exercises to help further inclusion based along a dimension or dimensions of difference such as the intersectionality of identity and inclusion;cultural inclusion;gender inclusion; language group inclusion; racial inclusion; LGBTQ inclusion; religious inclusion; age/generational inclusion; socio-economic class inclusion, etc.
Framework for Processing Papers
The stream chairs will request peer review of proposals from their network of global diversity and inclusion consultants. After peer review the chairs will submit to the submitters comments and request suggested adjustments to proposals that the two chairs and the peer reviewers agree are the strongest. The number of proposals accepted will align with the number of 1.5 hour long sessions available to a stream, and will depend on the length of each proposed workshop, since some proposed workshops may require more than a single 1.5 hour long session.
Author Information
Heather R. Wishik, J.D., is a global diversity and inclusion and leadership development consultant. Her practice includes government, corporate, educational and not for profit clients. She is particularly skilled at helping leadership teams learn about how diversity is relevant to what they do and how it is strategically relevant to their core objectives.With Dr. Martin Davidson, Heather co-authored the book “The End of Diversity as We Know It: Why Diversity Efforts Fail and How Leveraging Difference Can Succeed” (Berrett-Koehler, 2011).
Wishik has operated her consulting practice since 1993, except for three and a half years when she served as the Assistant Vice President and Director of Global Diversity and Inclusion for The TJX Companies, Inc. supporting their operations in Germany, the UK, Canada and the USA. She has taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Dartmouth College and Vermont Law School. Since 2001 she has been a Batten Research Fellow at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia. In this capacity she has co-authored teaching cases and global leadership research findings. She holds a B.A from Goddard College, and a J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of San Diego School of Law. In addition, she holds an Honors degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and a Certificate in Group Process Facilitation from the University of South Africa.
Heather has lived in Pakistan and the Netherlands as well as in the USA. She has worked with clients in the USA, Europe, India, Africa, South America and Canada. She and Dr. Davidson have been presenters in the “Inclusive Leadership” stream during EDI 2012 and 2013. With Dr. LizeBooysen, Wishik was a co-author of the winning paper in the “National and international thematic perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion” streamat EDI 2013.
Dr. Martin N. Davidson is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business. He teaches, researches, and consults with leaders in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia on how they can use diversity strategically to generate superior business performance. His research appears in Administrative Science Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, Research on Negotiation in Organizations, and the International Journal of Conflict Management and several other journals and books. His recent book--co-authored with Heather Wishik--“The End of Diversity as We Know It: Why Diversity Efforts Fail and How Leveraging Difference Can Succeed,” introduces a research-driven paradigm for leaders frustrated or disillusioned with traditional ways of designing and implementing diversity initiatives.
Davidson teaches leadership in Darden’s highly regarded Executive Education and MBA programs, and consults with a host of Fortune 500 firms, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. He has served as the chair of the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division of the Academy of Management, and has been featured in numerous media outlets including The New York Times, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, andNational Public Radio. He earned his A.B. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University.