Imperfect Leadership

The benefit of building diverse teams is well understood, with clear evidence that this can result in increased performance, staff satisfaction, loyalty, and overall organisational capability – but it requires that diverse teams be led inclusively. In an increasingly diverse environment, it is key that leaders can develop organisations where inclusion is embraced, ensuring everyone feels they belong and can perform to the best of their ability.

The focus of this session is for leaders to embrace their discomfort and use it to understand how vulnerability needs to be role-modeled to build trust and psychological safety so their people can experience that sense of belonging. Imperfection equals opportunity, so understanding how to move from good intentions to action is vital, and leaders will be equipped with a personal action plan for inclusive leadership.

Key Training Features

Who Can Attend

Learning Outcomes

 


Key Training Features:

  • Leadership attributes, styles and emotional intelligence
  • Traits of an inclusive leader
  • Understanding empathy, interpersonal dynamics and the creation of an inclusive environment
  • Values, behavioural norms, bias and psychological safety

 


Who Can Attend:

Senior managers in positions of leadership seeking to broaden their understanding of inclusive leadership in support of creating highly effective teams and organisations.

 


Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand the key traits of an inclusive leader
  • Cultivate self-awareness, awareness of your impact on others and understanding of the cycle of bias
  • Learn the essential ingredients of psychological safety in the workplace and the behaviours that build it and destroy it
  • Understand the costs of perfection and the benefits of imperfection

 


Summary

Duration

10:00 - 16:00

Price

Available to be delivered In-House. Contact us for a quotation.

Location

Civil Service College, Westminster, London

In-House Option

This course is available In-House and can be tailored to meet your individual training requirements.

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Lead Trainer

David Pearson

David Pearson

David Pearson is an award-winning leadership and inclusion expert, keynote speaker and presenter. He also created the UK’s only in-house LGBT-inclusive leadership certification.

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David Pearson

David Pearson

David Pearson is an award-winning leadership and inclusion expert, keynote speaker and presenter, and creator of the UK’s only in-house LGBT-inclusive leadership certification.

As Director, Global Inclusion & Diversity at KPMG, David supported inclusion for more than 200,000 people in 154 countries. With a background in KPMG’s Corporate Finance practice, he is currently undertaking ground-breaking research in the field of leadership, culture and inclusion while Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Corporate Responsibility for an international law firm.

David led KPMG’s LGBT network since 2013, which in 2018 was named Network of the Year at the British LGBT Awards. He is a Patron of Freedom to Donate, a Trustee of ELOP LGBT Mental Health & Wellbeing, and an alumnus of the Stonewall Leadership Programme, Out Leadership’s OutNEXT programme for LGBT leaders, and Centre For Synchronous Leadership’s “Inspire Like A Man” and “Walk The Tightrope” leadership programmes. He has sat on The Economist Global Pride & Prejudice Advisory Board and the Advisory Council for Radius Business.

In 2017 he was named as a NatWest Top 10 Diversity Champion and in 2019 as Channel 4 Diversity Hero of the Year. In 2021 his team won the Excellence in Equality & Inclusion Award at the People in Law Awards. He is a past regional and national winner of Boston Consulting Group’s Business Strategy Competition.

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