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Issue: 14 August, 2018
Here's what you'll find in this month's newsletter:
Stop Sucking:
Think Before You Advocate
DEI Futures Project Update
How to "Stand in the Future"
Developing the Organizational
and Personal Self
Cook Ross
Announces New CEO
Create High Performing
Teams and Organisations
Women's Leadership
Online Summit
Free Multi-Cultural Calendar
DEI Futures Project
Future Trends Cards
Conferences,
Webinars and More
EDITORIAL
Artwork by: Kal Barteski via strawlessocean.com/stopsucking
Editorial by Creative Director,  Shawndra Cox-Diaz, 
The Centre for Global Inclusion
STOP SUCKING: THINK BEFORE YOU ADVOCATE
#StopSucking. That was the hashtag on social media that fueled the movement to ban single-use plastic straws after footage of a sea turtle with 4 inches of plastic lodged in its nostril went viral. In what seemed like a truly rare union, state officials, celebrities, and everyday environmentalists alike, joined together to protect the world’s marine life and do away with the frivolous plastic.

However, with the race to rescue our oceans, people with disabilities who need the straws for basic, daily life functions are being left behind.
DEI FUTURES PROJECT UPDATE
The DEI Futures Project is a 10-month project of The Centre for Global Inclusion and The FutureWork Institute. To be involved and to receive two very informative future trends with research links each week, go to:
HOW TO "STAND IN THE FUTURE"
"A metaphor works like a wormhole: it can connect things that appear incredibly far apart."
- The Net and the Butterfly
In preparation for the DEI Futures Project and the April 2018 face-to-face event (see above link about the Project), participants were asked to complete pre-work to enable them to “stand in the future.” To the organizers, standing in the future means letting go of daily job and life pressures, the stressors of current events, any doom and gloom mentality and fears they might hold, and focus on the future. We specifically named 2030 to align with the United Nations 2030 Agenda: Transforming our World.
FROM & ABOUT EXPERT PANELISTS
DEVELOPING THE
ORGANIZATIONAL AND PERSONAL SELF
Many of us live two lives—one at work and one at home, neither being completely fulfilling or complementary. Often we allow conditions within our control to block us from becoming our most dynamic and effective selves or from enjoying fully satisfying and effective relationships and partnerships with others.

Fred Miller, Yabome Gilpin-Jackson, and GDIB Expert Panelist Judith Katz are facilitating an intensive personal and professional growth experience through NTL Institute this October. This lab is a powerful opportunity for exploring how you are leading your life – and ways to enhance your effectiveness at work and at home to have the life you want and deserve to have.
ANNOUNCES NEW CEO
Michael Leslie Amilcar, CEO,
Cook Ross
Howard Ross of Cook Ross is a GDIB Expert Panelist.
Congratulations on this transition!
MEASURING INCLUSION TO CREATE HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS AND ORGANISATIONS
FREE WEBINAR
AUGUST 22 or 23
(check your local time zone)
GDIB Expert Panelist, Heather Price, is Symmetra CEO, a Global consulting firm, headquartered in Australia.
OTHER NEWS
THE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP FREE ONLINE SUMMIT
SEPTEMBER 20-27
Berrett-Koehler, an alliance of The Centre for Global Inclusion,
is proud to present the Women's Leadership FREE Online Summit.

STREAM CONTENT FROM THE SESSIONS OF YOUR CHOICE
FROM YOUR DESK FOR FREE!

  • Get practical tips to amplify your voice, build your capacity for risk-taking, and overcome barriers to your personal success
  • Equip your team or organization with the best strategies to support women leaders at every level
  • Get the tools you need to dismantle the systemic issues that hold women back
  • Connect with a diverse community of women to access & offer support to lift up all of us
*All sessions come with the option to download the content
for a fee after the session/online summit has concluded.*
TOOLS
Free Multicultural Calendar
GDIB Expert Panelist, Barbara Deane offers a free monthly multicultural calendar via Diversity Central.

DEI Futures Project,
Future Trend Cards
A collection of future trends is being curated and posted biweekly by GDIB Expert Panelist Margaret Regan.
FEATURED EXPERT PANELISTS
Our GDIB Expert Panelists are the thinkers and contributors behind the GDIB. They have contributed to the development of our latest editions, guide us in preparing for the next update, and serve as strategic partners. This month we feature these four:
Lynn King
David Tulin 
Howard Ross
Tisa Jackson
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
WHERE THE GDIB IS INCLUDED
Please send us information if you are presenting on the GDIB (or including it in a presentation – even a short mention) at a conference or workshop that is open to the public. See the User Tools section of the website for slides and handouts you can use. Please let us know if you are attending any of the conferences so we can make connections. And please spread the word about these sessions to your networks.

White Privilege Conference

March 20 to 23, 2019
Cedar Rapids, ItA, USA


E3 Equity in Action Summit

April 4 to 5, 2019
San Rafael, CA, USA

D&I 2025-
The Future Fluent Global Summit

April 6, 2019
INDIA

The Forum on
Workplace Inclusion

April 16 to 18, 2019
Minneapolis, MN, USA

PUBLIC COURSES/WEBINARS OFFERED
BY EXPERT PANELISTS & ALLIANCES
Listed here are programs offered by GDIB Expert Panelists and Alliances. Many are offered numerous times on an ongoing basis. While these courses may not be specifically about the GDIB, the content will be helpful in achieving many of the GDIB benchmarks. If you are an Expert Panelist or Alliance and offer programs open to the public, please let us know and we will list here.
FREE Webinar Resources
courses including
 by Inclusion Allies
Training & Education
courses including
by Winters Group
Webinar Series
courses including
 by The Forum
Unconscious Bias
courses including
 by Cook Ross
OFFERING SUPPORT
If you want to use the GDIB in conference presentations, blogs, articles, chapters and so forth, we will support you if we can, by providing slides, handouts, and ideas. Go to our site and explore. We’ve put a lot of effort into providing these resources. Please help by adding to what we offer.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Success with GDIB Activity:
D&I Approaches, Insight & Impact
I&D, LikeSafety Consciousness -
Is An Enabler of Results
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About the GDIB: The GDIB— Global Diversity and Inclusion Benchmarks: Standards for Organizations Around the World —helps organizations of all sizes, in a variety of sectors and industries, using a variety of approaches to D&I work to achieve high-quality D&I outcomes. First published in 2006, the 2017 edition is authored by Julie O’Mara, Alan Richter, Ph.D., and 95 Expert Panelists. It is presented by The Centre for Global Inclusion. The GDIB is free and may be downloaded at The Centre site .
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