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Agenda for Certification Program

CEDP Certified Ethical Diversity Practitioner

Dates and Content

Dates for Fall Certification offering will be available soon
Six Two-Day Modules
Minimum of 12 and maximum of 20 participants
Registration for the entire Certification is strongly recommended. Total cost is $7,500. Registration for individual modules is available on a space available basis, with each module priced as noted below.
Module 1: Background and History of Diversity Management
Individual Module $1,500

  • The Business Case for Diversity & Global Diversity Trends
  • The history of management approaches to diversity from EEO and Affirmative Action to the present - lessons and best practices
  • Similarities and differences between Interculturalism and Diversity Practice
  • Workplace Acculturation Models: from assimilation to pluralism, relativism, segregation, exclusion
  • Demographics and Recruitment: Immigration, Age, Skills Gap
    TOOLS: Designing for inclusion, talent recruitment, retention, and development. Diagnosing management approaches to diversity

    Module 2: Organizational Dynamics: Learning the latest organizational development tools through the new sciences
    Individual Module $1,500

  • The principles of organizational complexity and systems thinking
  • The workplace vitality-chaos-rigidity continuum model
  • Understanding the competitive fitness landscape, the strategic role of diversity for success, and building for innovation against group think
  • A Global Approach to human identity, social psychology and business growth
    TOOLS: Diagnosing your organization for signs of workplace rigidity, chaos and vitality & Designing workplace solutions. Tools for rethinking diversity and organizational resilience.

    Module 3: Organizational People: Human Diversity and Identity
    Individual Module $1,500

  • What is the diversity wheel, diversity categories, human identity
  • From a socially created individual identity to fractal identities. The role of cognitive and spiritual / religious diversity
  • Workplace processes of discrimination and inclusion; the anatomy of prejudices and social marginalization; understanding identity militancy and intercultural conflict
  • Employee needs, desires, contributions and motivation
  • Managing the workplace for people added value
    TOOLS: Diagnosing and intervening in difficult and emerging diversity issues: age, religion, sexuality, race-ethnicity, culture-language. Designing for inclusion and collaboration, ethical leadership.

    Module 4: Organizational Culture: Workplace sociology, interculturalism and vitality.
    Individual Module $1,500

    Understanding and working with:
  • The elements of business culture, its drivers and its impact on business results, innovation, stakeholder relations
  • Workplace Business Ethics, pluralism, vitality, inclusion, acculturation and the grammar of conduct
  • Workplace enchantment to disenchantment drivers
  • The safe space for creativity and containing anxiety
  • Knowledge Management as a diversity tool: from inclusion to creativity and innovation: The 3Cs and 4Is of Innovation
    TOOLS: Templates for building a workplace culture of vitality. Building religious pluralism without religious intrusion. Working with Dialogue, ethical pluralism, fairness and anxiety containment techniques. Innovation Process Template.

    Module 5: Change and Change Agency: Champions, Leaders, Managers, Targets
    Individual Module $1,500

    Understanding Your role and understanding:
  • How to navigate change, think strategically, build tactical alliances, distinguish change agents from sponsors and targets
  • Building a systems approach to organizational improvement
  • Ethical leadership in a time of uncertainty, legitimacy & trust
  • Disrupt-deconstruct-reconstruct methodology
  • The role of diversity councils, employee identity groups, vitality teams
    TOOLS: How to distinguish 3 main types of resistance. Learning to work with disruption. Knowledge management tools such as innovation platforms & idea cafes. Getting support, buy in, and funding.

    Module 6: Conclusion and Examination / Diversity and Intercultural Awareness Profile
    Individual Module (Prerequisite: Successful completion of Modules 1 through 5) $1,750

  • Summary, case studies
  • Video based role modeling
  • Examination
  • Development of diversity strategic plan
  • Diversity and intercultural profile
  • Follow up coaching and workplace performance:
    This day of evaluation is followed up by a one time intervention observation with a GDI Professional before certification is granted.

    Comprehensive List of Tools and Conceptual Methodologies Provided in the CEDP Certification

    REGISTER FOR CERTIFICATION Here




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