Workshops

Culture is what motivates and retains talented employees. Every decision your organization makes strengthens or weakens your culture, and a healthy workplace culture—one that is fair, inclusive, high-functioning and free from harassment—is a critical business asset and force multiplier.

Betty Thompson, Chair, Society for human resource management

The following is a list of workshops and retreats Reese can facilitate for your department, team, division, or organization — curated to meet your organization’s needs. Each workshop is appropriate for large or small groups, includes interactive components, and is designed to be 2 hours in length. Retreats are designed for smaller groups (6-15 people) and are offered as half day, full-day, or multiple day experiences, depending on the topics covered. For some of the offerings below, there may be flexibility in participant size, material covered, and workshop or retreat length in order to meet your goals and your team’s availability. Many of these workshops can be conducted in an online or in-person format. It is recommended that retreats are conducted fully in-person.

Workshops

Emotional Intelligence for Leaders & Managers

This workshop introduces participants to foundational concepts of Emotional Intelligence, EI’s relevance to effective leadership and management, and strategies for increasing one’s workplace EI.

Inclusive Supervision & Team Management Practices

This workshop provides practical strategies to assist managers in fostering positive and inclusive supervisory relationships and team dynamics.

Fostering Psychological Safety in the Workplace

This workshop provides participants with an understanding of the need for psychological safety in the workplace along with practical strategies for creating and sustaining a culture of care.

Leading with Heart

Leading with heart is about connecting with people and taking actions to move a team forward. This workshop helps managers and leaders make connections between who they are as a person and how they show up as a leader, in addition to offering specific strategies for connecting with and motivating others.

Identifying & Interrupting Bias

This workshop aids participants in understanding what bias is, how it is a normal part of our cognitive functioning, the ways it negatively impacts ourselves and others, and what social and emotional strategies they can employ to interrupt bias events or situations.

LGBTQ+ Topics

This workshop presents an overview of contemporary frameworks and language for understanding LGBTQ+ identities and experiences, in addition to providing activities and learning to specifically address the needs of the organization.

Exploring White Supremacy Culture

This workshop helps participants better understand the ways power and oppression operate and, specifically, what the characteristics of dominant/white supremacy culture are and strategies and methods for embodying the antidotes.

Foundations of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

This workshop introduces participants to foundational concepts of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, through personal narratives, reflective activities, and case studies.

Retreats

Mission & Vision

This retreat bring participants through an inclusive and interactive process of mission and vision creation, grounding the work in contemporary workforce needs and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging frameworks.

Inclusive Leadership

This retreat provides participants with awareness, strategies, and skills to more effectively and authentically lead their department, team, or organization with an attentiveness and responsiveness to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging needs.

Strategic Planning

This retreat is curated to meet the department, team, division, or organization’s strategic planning needs, which may include mission and vision creation, organizational change readiness, and goal setting and alignment.

Team Building

Team building retreats are curated to meet each client’s specific needs and group dynamics, which may include establishing trust, fostering psychological safety, communicating across differences, and active listening.

Testimonials

Just wanted to extend my gratitude and appreciation for the training yesterday. Truth be told, I didn’t expect to learn that much, as I’ve been in many similar trainings. But WOW, Reese and [his co-facilitator] did a great job engaging the group on challenging discourse with compassion and authenticity. Great job!

~ anonymous participant, Identifying & Interrupting Bias workshop

This left me both energized and interested.

Excellent, very engaging!

I could do this training all over again.

~ anonymous participants, LGBTQ+ Topics workshop

Get In Touch

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