Beyond Diversity - Navigating the DEI Landscape in These Challenging Times edX - online learning platform

Overview

The Beyond Diversity - Navigating the DEI Landscape in These Challenging Times programme in collaboration with University of California, Berkeley - UC BerkeleyX is a Professional Certificate. 

Key facts

Beyond Diversity provides individuals with the analytical skills and management tools needed to thrive in an inclusive workplace. This certificate program from the University of California, Berkeley, helps diversity professionals, whether in leadership positions or human resources, to accelerate their careers by showing them how to navigate complex group dynamics, communicate effectively in challenging situations, and make critical decisions consistent with equity goals across a range of identities such as race, gender, sexual orientation, among others. 

Developed by world-class Berkeley professors, the program overcomes the shortcomings of traditional diversity trainings through a deeper understanding of the structural, interpersonal, and individual sources of bias that can often affect the workplace. 

The courses adapt cutting-edge research to enable professionals to develop productive responses to policy, ethical, and cultural challenges that organizations must increasingly confront in a fast-changing business world. Through this online program, employees, managers, and executives will gain concrete strategies to create meaningful and sustainable change as they build diversity in the workplace.

Job Outlook

• Hiring diversity and inclusion professionals to develop and implement DEI initiatives is a major priority for companies, leading to a 30% increase in recruitment in 2019 alone (source: CNBC 2020).
• More diverse companies outperform less diverse companies on the S&P 500 index (source: Wall Street Journal 2019).
• Companies with more gender and ethnic diversity grow faster (source: McKinsey 2018)
• ncreasing the diversity of leadership teams leads to more innovation (source: Boston Consulting Group 2018).