Leveraging Your Leadership Self: Personal Identity and Behavioral Empathy

This course lays the foundations for building stronger, more inclusive leadership practices by first considering why equity, diversity, and inclusion are crucial for effective leadership. Using the Emancipatory Leadership Development Model, the course then guides you in exploring how your leadership strengths and personal identity can be understood and harnessed in pursuit of inclusion. This forms the basis for developing deeper behavioral empathy — a core leadership capability for promoting inclusive organizational outcomes.

• The crisis of credibility in leadership and its relevance for inclusive leadership practices.
• Your leadership strengths and how these can be used in fostering EDI, particularly as a leader.
• The Emancipatory Leadership Development Model and how your identity impacts your approach to leadership.
• The different vectors of identity, the identity matrix, and skills to apply them to your own identity.
• Behavioral empathy and how it can deepen your impact as a leader and assist in conflict resolution.