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Leading with Inclusion in Complex Times

Thursday, Feb 13, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM | Virtual

Building truly inclusive workplaces means understanding how local and global crises impact our diverse teams in deeply personal ways. As nonprofit leaders, we face the complex challenge of creating space for multiple identities, experiences, and perspectives while maintaining focus on our missions. How do we foster environments where team members can bring their full selves to work, even as they process challenging current events?

In this 90-minute peer discussion, nonprofit leaders will share challenges and explore practical approaches to creating psychologically safer workplaces during difficult times. Together, we’ll examine guiding principles and concrete strategies that help balance empathy with organizational effectiveness.

Participants will:

  1. Consider how power and privilege shape psychological safety at work
  2. Apply trauma-informed principles to organizational communication and policy
  3. Identify action steps to build an inclusive, resilient workplace culture

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About the presenter

Elizabeth Speck, Ph.D., LCAT is the founder and principal of MindOpen Learning Strategies, a training, consulting, and coaching firm dedicated to helping individuals and organizations develop new approaches to work that advance social justice. Established in 2017 and certified as a Woman-Owned Business Enterprise in New York City and State, MindOpen has engaged thousands of nonprofit employees in impactful professional development initiatives and supported over 40 organizations in building trauma-informed, anti-racist cultures.

 

Dr. Speck holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Development from Fielding Graduate University, is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Board Certified Trainer in Drama Therapy (MA, NYU), and a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10K Small Business Program. With over 30 years of experience working within and across New York City’s public service systems, she has a deep understanding of direct service, management, and capacity building. Prior to founding MindOpen, Elizabeth led large-scale organizational and systemic change efforts as the Chief Learning Officer for the Workforce Professionals Training Institute and as Senior Training Director for Safe Horizon, the nation’s largest victim assistance organization. 

Elizabeth is an Adjunct Professor of Social Policy at Wagner College. She is a frequent conference speaker on issues of equitable and inclusive hiring, leadership development, and organizational culture, with regional and national associations such as The Society for Human Resources Management, Association for Talent Development, and Jobs for the Future. As a community member, scholar-practitioner, and entrepreneur, Elizabeth is actively involved in multiple networks working towards racial justice and equity in education, health, employment, and economic opportunity.

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