Twenty-second International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations

Abstract

This session considers how leaders adopt and implement principles of belonging as a strategy to manage disruption, promote organizational nimbleness, future readiness, and innovation. Dr. Coleman proposes we move away from notions of the status quo and towards, what she calls, a New Global Different built on best practices in organizational development and specifically applying principles relevant to design thinking, trans-disciplinary and trans-generational co-creation, sustainability, decolonization, resiliency, and adaptivity. To do so, Coleman will highlight common misconceptions around belonging (and related DEI misconceptions) to present a framework that moves away form the status quo and toward innovation. The initial first part of the session will provide guidance on how leaders may leverage, as opposed to obliterate, dissension within their organizations and in the second half focus on real life application by using case studies.