NCWIT: Innovation, Culture, and You

INNOVATION, CULTURE, AND YOU

Building Inclusive Technical Workplaces

This workshop helps participants become inclusive leaders through development of shared, research-based understanding and common language for addressing subtle everyday biases and institutional barriers. Participants will learn actionable ways to support inclusive culture construction through personal and systemic change. The 90-minute virtual session explores:

Why diversity matters for innovation. Research ties diversity to innovation and other positive business outcomes, but "add diversity and stir" doesn't work--we need to build inclusive cultures.

Why the problem persists. Societal biases show up in technical cultures in many ways and create unintended barriers. "Check-box solutions," fix-the-person approaches, and preoccupation with faulty metrics have impeded past DEI efforts, but meaningful change is possible.

How underrepresented technologists are affected. From extra work and increased scrutiny to missed promotions and isolation, unchecked subtle biases can have major adverse impacts on individuals and companies.

How to create technical cultures where all employees thrive and innovation is enhanced. Small changes can produce big improvements when approached strategically. NCWIT's Systemic Change Model can help you identify effective strategies for recognizing and rooting out bias in systems and everyday interactions.

ABOUT NCWIT
The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) is a non-profit community of more than 1,500 universities, companies, non-profits, and government organizations nationwide working to increase the influential and meaningful participation of girls and women—at the intersections of race, ethnicity, class, age, sexual orientation, and disability status—in the field of computing, particularly in terms of innovation and development. NCWIT equips change leaders with resources for taking action in recruiting, retaining, and advancing women from K-12 and higher education through industry and entrepreneurial careers. Find out more at www.ncwit.org.