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Five Good Ideas to create a sense of community and belonging at your workplace

How do we create a more inclusive community at our workplaces? We have all done the trainings and listened to the TED Talks, and every second line of an organization's website mentions "EDI." Equity, diversity, and inclusion may have become buzzwords in business, NGO, and government sectors, in reality, organizations - including those in the legal sector - have fallen short of reflecting and representing the broader population within which they work. We see that more women and racialized, Black, and Indigenous people are represented in companies, but they still face barriers to advancement and feeling a sense of belonging.

In this Five Good Ideas session, Dr. Tanya (Toni) De Mello, VP Equity and Community Inclusion at Toronto Metropolitan University, will explore the ways in which feeling like you belong, knowing that you will be included, and seeing your work community as "your" community matters. She will provide some advice on how you can achieve this sense of community and belonging at your organization and shed some light on what we may be doing to hinder it.

Note: Live closed captions available for this webinar.

Speaker: Dr. Tanya (Toni) De Mello
With a background comprising finance, management consulting, and law, Tanya (who we call "Toni") De Mello has spent much of her career focusing on, and researching, equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). She is a human rights lawyer and a certified coach and mediator. She has taught at University of Toronto, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), and several Colleges. She worked at TMU as the Director of Human Rights and then Lincoln Alexander School of Law, which is Canada's newest law school the in 2019. She is currently the Vice President, Equity and Community Inclusion. She has worked with over 100 organizations in training, consulting, and supporting them in the EDI journey.

Mar 31, 2023 01:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)