Presented by the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
About the Program
The Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Summit: The Collaborative Blueprint is an innovative and collaborative professional development experience designed to empower leaders in the legal profession to take action toward making Connecticut a more diverse and inclusive bench and bar. Through interactive workshops and discussions, you will gain knowledge and learn strategies to help create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment in your organization and in the State of Connecticut.
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You Will Learn
- About the collaborative diversity pledge/plan and its goals
- Strategies for increasing retention in your firm
- About the underpinnings of systemic racism as well as approaches for redressing it
Who Should Attend
This summit is open to all members of the Connecticut legal community.
Featured Presenter, Ritu Bhasin
Title: Inclusive Coaching Workshop: Coaching for Inclusion and Not Conformity
Description:
Ritu Bhasin, an award-winning speaker and the founder and CEO of bhasin consulting inc. will present a workshop to help leaders in the legal profession ensure that they are providing coaching, mentorship, sponsorship, and advocacy in an inclusive way. In this session, attendees will learn about a methodology for coaching across cultural differences and the skills necessary to empower and elevate team members without pushing conformity. This workshop will be highly interactive.
You will learn:
- The critical impact of inclusive coaching on the career growth of legal professionals from equity-seeking communities
- The main barriers to inclusive coaching when providing support and feedback to legal professionals from equity-seeking communities
- A methodology for holding inclusive coaching conversations
- How to distinguish between offering behavioral adaptations and pushing conformity
- How you can interrupt biases when determining behaviors for career success vs. offering advice to conform to your preferred ways of behaving
- How to use language effectively to foster leaders in the context of cultural differences
The first 150 registered attendees will be eligible to receive a free copy of Ritu Bhasin’s book:
The Authenticity Principle: Resist Conformity, Embrace Differences, and Transform How you Live, Work, and Lead. To be eligible to receive a copy, kindly complete this
book survey.
Cost
Free