Belonging Leadership Series

An Executive Coaching Program For

The Inclusive Leader

This six-month executive coaching program empowers you to build belonging at work by teaching you how to embody inclusive leadership behaviors. You will gain proven skills to build psychological safety and trust at work. These are the building blocks to creating an emotional outcome of belonging, resulting in increased engagement, team cohesion, and innovation. By the end of this leadership series, you will confidently answer this question:

How can I transform a moment of exclusion into a moment of belonging?

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Over the course of 6 learning sessions and 6 coaching sessions, you will receive mentorship directly from nationally recognized diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) thought leader and bestselling author, Rhodes Perry. He will share distinctive stories from his extensive career as a workplace culture strategist, as he introduces you to the specific inclusive behaviors you will practice. Embodying these behaviors will empower you to show up, move up, and inspire the next generation. Most importantly, the guidance offered in this learning series will help you overcome the costs of social exclusion at work. Left unchecked, these costs will undermine your organization’s DEI goals and sour your organization's culture.

Goal: Empower executives to build a felt sense of belonging at work for all stakeholder by developing strategies that center colleagues most likely to endure social exclusion at work.

Structure: There are a total of 12 virtual hours where executives will gather with Rhodes Perry. Six of these hours include learning workshops outlined below, and the other 6 hours are dedicated to group coaching sessions. Throughout all parts of this leadership series, executives will have ample opportunities to practice applying the skills they are learning.

Here's What's Inside the Series

The six learning workshops feature foundational and intermediate learning concepts. Foundational concepts are highlighted in the light blue boxes, and the intermediate concepts are highlighted in the navy boxes below.

Belonging Basics

Belonging Ingredients

* Four main belonging ingredients.

* Safety & trust build belonging.

* Shift from exclusion to belonging.

Empathy Muscles

Create Real Connections

* Empaty ≠ Sympathy.

* Practice sonder for connection.

* Learn 4 elements of empathy.

Inclusion Behaviors

Embody Inclusivity

* Learn 6 inclusive behaviors.

* Practice ways to embody them.

* Systematize these behaviors.

Power at Work

Know Your Power

* Where do/don't you hold power?

* Learn how social power operates.

* Use power to build belonging.

Fumbling to Repair

Create the Space

* Intention ≠ Impact.

* Know 3 frameworks to repair.

* Practice them & build confidence.

Real Commitment

Make the Commitment

* Change ≠ Transformation.

* Learn the commitment formula.

* Make personal commitment.

Rhodes Perry

I created this series because I envision a world where everyone on the job enjoys authentic connections with their colleagues, feels seen for who they are, gets the support they need to do their best work, and feels pride and purpose on the job - in other words, they feel an emotional outcome of belonging, and I want to help leaders like you build it at work.

I love helping leaders, visionaries, and change agents build more psychological safety, more trust, and more belonging at work for those of us who are most likely to endure the sting of social exclusion - most likely to feel invisible, discouraged, disconnected, and invisible on the job. Tragically, even in the powerful #BelongingMovement we are building together, I encounter leaders on the verge of giving up on their DEI commitments.

That's why I spent the past two decades working in-and-with many organizations researching, testing, and changing promising practices that lead to more employees feeling a sense of belonging at work. What I have learned along the way is now enshrined in my bestselling books, Belonging at Work and Imagine Belonging.

This series brings together what I've discovered during my 20-year journey in the diversity, equity and inclusion field and in a wide variety of intersecting social justice movements.

I’m excited to join you on this enormous learning journey.

Together let's grow our #BelongingMovement!

Learning Workshop Descriptions

Workshop #1: The Belonging Basics

The Belonging Basics. Wrap your arms around what belonging means, why it matters, and how you can build it at work by building real and psychologically safe relationships. After this workshop, you will be able to:

Describe what psychological safety, trust, and belonging at work mean, and why they matter.
Gain simple skills to help you take everyday actions that will lead to building moments of belonging at work.
Practice using these new skills to transform moments of exclusion into moments of belonging.

Workshop #2: Flex Your Empathy Muscles

Flex Your Empathy Muscles. Recognize why empathy is a leadership superpower that will help you establish a greater sense of trust and connection with those you lead, and with your organization. After this workshop, you will be able to:

Learn why empathy drives connection while sympathy drives disconnection.
Gain skills to help you embody the 4 elements of empathy in the way you lead.
Practice these new skills by applying them to common workplace scenarios.

Workshop #3: Embody Inclusive Leadership Practices

Embody Inclusive Leadership Practices. Commit to improving your organization’s culture by examining the transferrable set of leadership behaviors you want to pass along to the next generation of executives in your organization. After this workshop, you will be able to:

Gain insights as to why inclusive leadership will help transform your culture.
Learn how to practice six inclusive leadership behaviors, no matter your role.
Consider how your organization can systematize and reward inclusive behaviors.

Workshop #4: Power at Work

Power at Work. Learn the role that both social and positional power play in the workplace and explore ways these sources of power can help build more safety, trust, and belonging on the job. After this workshop, you will be able to:

Consider where you do/don’t hold social power based on different contexts.
Identify the ways social power operates within the culture of your workplace.
Practice ways you can leverage your social power at work to foster more safety.

Workshop #5: Fumbling Towards Repair

Fumbling Towards Repair. Embrace the role you can play to repair from unintentional harm you may have caused, or you may have witnessed, that has caused a rupture at work. After this workshop, you will be able to:

Distinguish the difference between a good intention and a harmful impact.
Gain a helpful framework that can help repair after harm has occurred at work.
Practice ways you can use this helpful framework when responding to exclusion.

Workshop #6: Making the Commitment

Make the Commitment. Commit to transforming your workplace culture by beginning with yourself, recognizing what it truly takes to inclusively lead and build a culture of belonging. After this workshop, you will be able to:

Name the difference between change and transformation.
Gain a framework of how to make a real commitment to transform culture.
Develop your own commitment statement using the four elements to commit.

Coaching Sessions

A 60-minute, group coaching session follows each of the above learning workshops. These sessions invite and empower participants to demonstrate and process what they have learned. Participants are encouraged to bring real-world and relevant challenges to these sessions where the group can workshop solutions together.

During each session, participants will be encouraged to explore the following questions:

What? What did you notice about yourself, your relationships, and your organization as you were engaged with the content from this past workshop?

So What? Based on your observations, what does this now mean for you, your relationships, and your organization? How are you making meaning of this experience?

Now What? Based on your experiences, what are you now willing to do to explore who you are intentionally including, and who you may be unintentionally excluding?

What else is included?

Participant Workbooks

On top of all of the great learning and coaching that will take place over the course of this executive coaching program, participants will receive six workbooks that correspond to each learning and coaching session. The workbooks empower participants to make meaning out of the content they are learning and practicing and will allow participants to reference this content long after this executive learning series is completed.

Lessons on Demand

Work and life commitments can naturally get in the way of our regularly scheduled learning and coaching sessions. To make sure you don’t miss a second of this valuable content, we have developed an online learning library where you can access lessons on demand. Whether you’ve missed a lesson, or if you want to rewatch one that especially resonated with you, know that you can always access this content at any point in the 2023.

ENROLLMENT PERKS

During the course of this program, participants receive the following complimentary support, which includes the following:

The Belonging Books

Participants that enroll before January 1, 2023 will receive signed copies of Rhodes Perry’s bestselling books, Belonging at Work and Imagine Belonging, valued at $50, and for anyone who enrolls in 2023, they will receive complimentary copies of the Belonging Book Set as eBooks.

Belonging Membership Community

Learning together is always better, which is why those who enroll in this executive coaching program will receive complimentary access to our Belonging Membership Community, and current Belonging Community Members receive a 30% discount on this executive coaching program.

Belonging at Work Summit 2023

To make this executive coaching program even more valuable, you will automatically be enrolled in the Belonging at Work Summit, where you can participate during the live Summit, July 24 – July 28, 2023. You will also receive a complimentary leader pass ($197) to engage with the content after the Summit.

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Choose Your Payment Plan Below.

We offer a limited number of partial scholarship for this learning program.
See below for more information.

Join the Waitlist

6 Instructional workbooks to demonstrate & process key learnings from sessions ($300 value).
20% off regular tuition
Complimentary access to Belonging Membership Community during BLS series ($175 value)
Signed Belonging Book Set, including Belonging at Work and Imagine Belonging ($50 value)

Pay In Full

$

1200

processed 30-days apart

2x Payments

$

600/x2

processed 30-days apart

6x Payments

$

200/x6

processed 30-days apart

15 Day Money Back Guarantee

Enroll in the Belonging Leadership Series today. Then, in February 2023, join our Orientation and the Learning Workshop, both held within the first 15-days of the program. By the end of those 15 days, if you believe the Belonging Leadership Series will not have a profound and dramatic impact on the way you lead and how you advance your DEI goals, simply let us know and our team will give you a prompt and courteous refund.

Limited Scholarships Available

Team Belonging recognizes the inequities in accessing professional development resources, which is why we have set aside a limited number of partial scholarships for emerging practitioners, and those with lower income/wealth to have an opportunity to engage in this leadership program. If you would like to be considered for a partial scholarship, please ask yourself these questions:

1. Do I work for a well-resourced organization?

2. Does my organization cover my professional development expenses?

3. Am I debt free and do I have access to disposable income?

4. Have I attended private education, or have an advanced degree?

5. Do I have caregiving responsibilities for minor or adult dependents?

6. Can I access and afford care services for my caregiving responsibilities - without sacrificing my basic needs?

7. Do I have access to affordable healthcare?

8. Am I/or are members of my family homeowners or landowners?

Many thanks to Tanya Rumble and Nicole McVan's Community of Practice for developing these questions.

If most of your answers were NO, please contact us at hello@rhodesperry.com to discuss scholarship options.

RHODES PERRY CONSULTING