
Overview
Inclusive leadership is a must-have for high-performing teams, attracting and retaining top talent, and reaping the benefits of diversity at all levels. Inclusivity happens (or doesn’t happen) every day across all business units, but it’s not easy to know at a glance whether your organisation is getting it right. Combating unconscious biases takes conscious effort.
“Inclusive leaders create successful organisations in today’s complex diverse global environment. They improve performance, productivity and innovation.”
– Diversity Council of Australia
The Dream Collective has designed the Inclusive Leadership Program to maximise on-the-ground actionable impact, engaging participants to share best-practice learnings and grow understanding, empathy and capabilities.
Who it’s for
- Businesses looking to embed inclusive leadership across all business units, equipping leaders with the tools and knowledge to foster environments where a diverse range of employee perspectives are valued
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Business Impact
The business case for inclusive leadership is clear, and organisations that get inclusion right can reap rewards of a more cohesive and engaged team, and a competitive edge. Inclusive leadership has evolved from a ‘nice to have’ to a definitive capability separating high performing teams and companies from the average.
Program Experience
Inclusive Leadership extends beyond employee training. How inclusive is your culture, your leaders and your structures? The Inclusive Leadership Program assesses potential barriers and opportunities in a three-phased, holistic way, to maximise on-the-ground buy-in, practical uptake and effectiveness.
Phase 1: Discovery and Analysis
Alignment meetings; pre-survey; content review
Phase 2: Design and Activation
Co-design internal communication strategy; 4x Inclusive Leadership workshops; explore knowledge and mindset change through post-surveys
Phase 3: Playback and Scale
Leadership Playback Session with key stakeholders; recommendations report, coaching circle
Learning Experience
Conducted across 4x modules, this workshop series includes:
- Pre and post-program surveys
- Internal communication strategy co-design
- Content development and facilitation, including accountability frameworks
The Dream Collective tailors learning modules to each client according to their priorities and participants’ baseline knowledge, maximising the effectiveness of the learning experience. Content may include:
Module 1:
- Understanding inclusive leadership
- – Why inclusivity is the key to lead in 2022 and beyond
- – Power & Identity Experiential Exercise
- – Managing your biases and blindspots
Module 2:
- Systemic biases and psychological safety
- – Systemic biases in the workplace
- – Creating psychologically safe environments
- – Spectrum of disrespect
- – Leveraging diversity of thought for better collaboration
Module 3:
- The power of inclusive language
- – Why language matters in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)
- – Power of inclusive language and how to use it to foster DEI in the workplace
- – Inclusive group meeting best-practice
Module 4:
- Taking Affirmative Action
- – Inclusion fireside panel (optional)
- – Turning inclusive leadership commitment into action
- – Developing individual and collective action plans
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn:
- Why diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is the key to lead in 2021 and beyond
- How to understand their own lens as a leader, and how to harness their power and strengths to foster inclusion
- How to identify and overcome biases and triggers that manifest in the workplace
- Best-practice tools to foster psychologically safe environments
- The power of language in building inclusion and exclusion at work
- How to identify inclusive language and exclusive language
Participants will also hear real-life experiences of inclusion to increase leadership buy-in of DEI, and co-create an individual action plan to work towards embedding inclusive leadership into their daily practice.
Trusted by world-leading brands
Hear from other leaders that have walked the path with us
Head of Training & Certification, Amazon Web Services
The Dream Collective brought our vision to life and worked consistently to maximise its success. It has been an incredible partnership and we are so appreciative of the tremendous work that they have consistently put in. Every team member has supported our mission with so much enthusiasm and it’s been a true pleasure to work with them. We are very proud of the impact that we have been able to achieve through SheDares and the number of women that we have reached and inspired to consider a career in technology, and provide them with pathways to entry. We look forward to continuing to drive impact together in the future.
Learning & Development Manager, en world Japan
Thank you for another wonderful workshop! The energy was inspirational, and you could feel the leadership confidence in the room growing and growing. Always awesome to work with The Dream Collective as we strive to make a more inclusive environment that ensures anyone from any background can thrive and succeed.
eBusiness Implementation Manager , Computershare
I came with a demotivated approach to my leadership style and how I had been performing, having not been challenged for a while except with workload. Day 2 was an invigorating day with exceptional speakers who woke 'ME' up and cleared my head.
Media Account Manager, Zenith Media
It was such a great experience, I was really inspired to meet so many fantastic women and participate in some really thought provoking and challenging workshops. I think that all of the events were excellent. Particular highlights were absolutely the dinner with a mentor which was so so so valuable and the workshop intensives.
Senior Account Manager, Canon Australia
This was the best training experience I have been to because we not only learnt some invaluable lessons from a personal perspective, we also learnt how to pass this on to our teams, whilst forging some really great relationships/contacts along the way. I really enjoyed having different presenters for each think tank - particularly as each of them were really engaging and practical.
Marketing Director, APN Outdoor
The program was well-balanced, inspiring, great selection of speakers and the dinner with a mentor was a brilliant opportunity to meet and ask questions of inspiring women in leadership. Meeting the amazing cohort of women - we had a terrific group and I learnt a lot from each of them, connected with lots of them and feel like I have come away with an inspiring network of even more women. The panel was so good and the little nuggets of gold they all offered was really valuable.
Office Manager, BCG Consulting
I found the program extremely inspiring and well thought out, the content and external facilitators were engaging. Resilience, leadership and negotiation were extremely applicable to my role and dinner with the mentor was fantastic. Very intimate and inspiring. Project management and design thinking were not as applicable to me but still very interesting. Dinner with a mentor is just amazing, this was so intimate and meaningful and I left feeling very inspired.
Team Leader, HCF Australia
I got so much out of completing the course. Personally & professionally. The Networking drinks were a great way to break the ice and meet some people prior to starting. I particularly enjoyed the Fireside Chat and listening to different opinions and stories. The Think Tanks were varied and some were more relevant to my role than others, however I took valuable feedback from every one that could still be implanted in my day to day.
Account Director, Starcom
I feel like 3 weeks on I feel even more value from this course than I did the days after. I came away with so much information in my brain I had no idea how I would implement it. As all the leaders said "practice, practice, practice" and I have used so much already and am even working with HR on my learning for internal training.
Audit Manager, HILTI
I am really grateful that I got the opportunity to join this program. The most important take-away I have from this program is that I have a different way of evaluating myself, which in turns makes me more confident in who I am. It is also great to know that I am not alone in this journey and that I am sharing the same path with so many like minded young women out there.
Community Development Adviser, Outside The Box
Working with Dream Collective has given our team a space and the tools to reflect on their individual skills as leaders as well as identifying our shared values of leadership - for planning and embedding new workplace initiatives that support this.
Trusted by world-leading brands
Hear from other leaders that have walked the path with us
Head of Training & Certification, Amazon Web Services
The Dream Collective brought our vision to life and worked consistently to maximise its success. It has been an incredible partnership and we are so appreciative of the tremendous work that they have consistently put in. Every team member has supported our mission with so much enthusiasm and it’s been a true pleasure to work with them. We are very proud of the impact that we have been able to achieve through SheDares and the number of women that we have reached and inspired to consider a career in technology, and provide them with pathways to entry. We look forward to continuing to drive impact together in the future.
Learning & Development Manager, en world Japan
Thank you for another wonderful workshop! The energy was inspirational, and you could feel the leadership confidence in the room growing and growing. Always awesome to work with The Dream Collective as we strive to make a more inclusive environment that ensures anyone from any background can thrive and succeed.
eBusiness Implementation Manager , Computershare
I came with a demotivated approach to my leadership style and how I had been performing, having not been challenged for a while except with workload. Day 2 was an invigorating day with exceptional speakers who woke 'ME' up and cleared my head.
Media Account Manager, Zenith Media
It was such a great experience, I was really inspired to meet so many fantastic women and participate in some really thought provoking and challenging workshops. I think that all of the events were excellent. Particular highlights were absolutely the dinner with a mentor which was so so so valuable and the workshop intensives.
Senior Account Manager, Canon Australia
This was the best training experience I have been to because we not only learnt some invaluable lessons from a personal perspective, we also learnt how to pass this on to our teams, whilst forging some really great relationships/contacts along the way. I really enjoyed having different presenters for each think tank - particularly as each of them were really engaging and practical.
Marketing Director, APN Outdoor
The program was well-balanced, inspiring, great selection of speakers and the dinner with a mentor was a brilliant opportunity to meet and ask questions of inspiring women in leadership. Meeting the amazing cohort of women - we had a terrific group and I learnt a lot from each of them, connected with lots of them and feel like I have come away with an inspiring network of even more women. The panel was so good and the little nuggets of gold they all offered was really valuable.
Office Manager, BCG Consulting
I found the program extremely inspiring and well thought out, the content and external facilitators were engaging. Resilience, leadership and negotiation were extremely applicable to my role and dinner with the mentor was fantastic. Very intimate and inspiring. Project management and design thinking were not as applicable to me but still very interesting. Dinner with a mentor is just amazing, this was so intimate and meaningful and I left feeling very inspired.
Team Leader, HCF Australia
I got so much out of completing the course. Personally & professionally. The Networking drinks were a great way to break the ice and meet some people prior to starting. I particularly enjoyed the Fireside Chat and listening to different opinions and stories. The Think Tanks were varied and some were more relevant to my role than others, however I took valuable feedback from every one that could still be implanted in my day to day.
Account Director, Starcom
I feel like 3 weeks on I feel even more value from this course than I did the days after. I came away with so much information in my brain I had no idea how I would implement it. As all the leaders said "practice, practice, practice" and I have used so much already and am even working with HR on my learning for internal training.
Audit Manager, HILTI
I am really grateful that I got the opportunity to join this program. The most important take-away I have from this program is that I have a different way of evaluating myself, which in turns makes me more confident in who I am. It is also great to know that I am not alone in this journey and that I am sharing the same path with so many like minded young women out there.
Community Development Adviser, Outside The Box
Working with Dream Collective has given our team a space and the tools to reflect on their individual skills as leaders as well as identifying our shared values of leadership - for planning and embedding new workplace initiatives that support this.
Have questions?
Curious to find out more about the program? Speak with us directly using the contact details below - we'd love to hear from you.














































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