Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance

The Unconscious Bias Series is back with a fresh format and new community facilitator!

The Cultural Alliance is excited to announce that we are partnering with Exude to bring you Unconscious Bias Series: Delve Deep into Gender Bias through the lens of inclusive leadership. The series will be offered asynchronously – you’ll be able to do it at your own pace – via Thinkific with opportunities for real-time conversations throughout the course. The Unconscious Bias Series is back with a fresh format and new community facilitator!

Over the past two years, the Cultural Alliance has explored Unconscious Bias in areas of race, class, accessibility, age, and gender in virtual workshops. These series were produced during the height of the pandemic crisis, which presented new challenges as well as new ways of learning and connecting. Since that time, we’ve heard from participants that there is a desire for a deeper dive into biases and a need for self-guided learning. We also heard from many arts and culture professionals who had to choose between their day-to-day responsibilities and participating in the past series due to limited capacity. Through this new self-guided learning experience, participants will be able to obtain the tools they need on their timeline and on their own terms.

Through the Unconscious Bias Series: Delve Deep Into Gender Bias course on Thinkific, participants will have access to:

Four, monthly lecture-style videos, each approximately 30-minutes in length
Four corresponding exercises to reinforce skills learned and knowledge gained from the lecture-style videos
Four real-time, virtual conversations with the facilitators to reflect, inquire and decompress
Recommended readings for further enrichment
Assessments to measure growth
And much much more

This is the perfect opportunity to recommit yourself to the work of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. With a more convenient format than ever before, don’t miss your chance to contribute to transformational change of our creative industry. As you know, this work is continuous and ever-evolving – continue the work by registering today!

A new session of the Unconscious Bias Series: Delve Deep Into Gender Bias will drop every three weeks and each will build upon the previous session. The release dates will be Monday, April 3, Monday April 24, Monday, May 15, and Monday, June 5.

Below is more information about this year’s facilitators and the digital platform:

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Exude Human Capital is a boutique consulting firm founded in 2006. We are focused on the connectivity of HR, Diversity/Equity/Inclusion, and Leadership Development.

Dr. Cassandra D. Caldwell is an internationally renowned diversity and inclusion thought leader, author, faculty member, consultant, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and scholar. She has been featured in numerous publications, including Black Enterprise Magazine, Profiles in Diversity Journal, HBCU Connect Magazine, INSIGHT Into Diversity Magazine, and The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. She has over 24 years of experience through several leadership roles with Visa, General Electric, Sodexo, the International Society of Diversity and Inclusion Professionals, GlaxoSmithKline, North Carolina State University, and the US Department of Agriculture.

In addition to being a leader in the corporate world, Dr. Caldwell was an instructor in the Cornell University Diversity and Inclusion Certification Program. She served as an appointed advisor to the US Census on the National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations. She has also held academic appointments as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland, Nova Southeastern University, Walden University, North Carolina Central University, Duke University, Seton Hall University, and the University of Houston. Her teaching areas of expertise focus on: leadership, diversity & inclusion, human resources, organizational theory & behavior, and research methods.

Thinkific is a software platform that enables entrepreneurs to create, market, sell, and deliver their own online courses. They believe in sustainable, lasting, effective courses that maximize impact across the entire student journey.

As we have said all along, this work is continuous and ever-evolving. The thing about Unconscious Bias is that you don’t know what you don’t know! While it’s easy to think that we are equitable when it comes to gender in the arts, this is actually a symptom of Unconscious Bias. Register today to continue your journey of learning!

If you are in need of accessible accommodations or have any further questions, please contact Roberta Johnson, Vice President of Programming at robertaj@philaculture.org.

No refunds will be issued for this program.

This series is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit arts.gov.