Deanna Singh Books

Actions Speak Louder: A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming an Inclusive Workplace

Purposeful Hustle: Direct Your Life's Work Towards Making A Positive Impact

Speaker Lists Featuring Deanna Singh

Top Keynote Speakers for 2023 Events

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Inspiring Women in Leadership Positions

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BIPOC Speakers

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Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) Training Speakers

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) speakers focus on increasing representation of people from various backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, and offer the education and insight to explore key concepts such as gender...

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Deanna Singh Speaking Topics

• Actions Speak Louder

  During this learning experience, audience members will be guided through a process to move past the status quo and help lead the charge. Through the power of storytelling, sharing practical tips, and individual reflection, audience members will be able to identify the unique way to positively impact the future of their organizations and the potential of their actions.

  Key Takeaways:

  • Confidence in how to navigate the changing world
  • Tools to equip your team with the go-forward strategy
  • Backing your messages and values with sincere and impactful actions that highlight leadership and more.

• The Power of Inclusion

  Issuing public statements, modifying behavior, and changing policies can help organizations achieve greater inclusivity, but those who succeed the most go further. Those who achieve the greatest success are those that go beyond creating inclusive declarations, actions, or environments to fundamentally change the way they make decisions. This session explores how to modify organizational processes to encourage buy-in, share authority, and foster belonging in order to achieve the full benefits of an inclusive workplace culture.

  Learning objectives:

  • Define inclusion
  • Survey case studies and statistics related to inclusion
  • Examine how inclusivity benefits organizations
  • Consider common obstacles to inclusion
  • Explore strategies for creating a more inclusive culture
  • Brainstorm methods particular to your organization

• Inclusive Leadership

  While many organizations recognize the virtues of DEI initiatives, the success of these programs rest on the everyday actions of individual leaders. Organizational attempts to foster a deeper sense of belonging only translate into improved recruitment, retention, productivity, and mission fulfillment if leaders also figure out how to practice greater inclusivity in their everyday interpersonal behaviors. In this session participants review their leadership styles, skills, and responsibilities through the lens of DEI, considering how more inclusive approaches to strategizing, motivating, decision making, and leadership can improve entire organizations.

  Learning objectives:

  • Review characteristics of traditional leadership
  • Define DEI as a leadership value
  • Recognize overlap between these styles
  • Survey the benefits of inclusive leadership
  • Identify strategies for implementing it
  • Translate learning to the specific experience of participants

• Counteracting Bias

  In a changing world, the organizations that thrive are those that know how to identify their assumptions and evolve. When it comes to connecting with different communities, it becomes fundamental to identify the thinking patterns that undermine deeper partnerships. One of the behaviors that pose the deepest problems is bias. In its quest to understand the world more quickly, the human brain creates all kinds of shortcuts that prevent it from understanding others more fully. By recognizing how pervasive these biases are and by learning how to manage them, we can improve connections with customers, clients, coworkers, and communities.

  Learning objectives:

  • Define bias
  • Learn types of biases
  • Recognize common examples from the workplace
  • Understand the benefits of counteracting biases
  • Identify best practices for managing them
  • Brainstorm new strategies

• Talking Across Differences

  Before striving for greater belonging, people must first be able to talk about identity differences. In this session, participants learn strategies for discussing this topic constructively. For people to flourish in their organizations, they need to feel included. Unfortunately, too often, leaders believe that to foster inclusion, they must avoid conversations about things like race, gender, and sexual orientation. However, ignoring these difficult discussions can breed distrust, exacerbate alienation, and feed biases. “Talking Across Differences” provides strategies for acknowledging, celebrating, and conversing about differences in ways that improve workplace environments.

  Learning objectives:

  • Define “talking across differences”
  • Explore examples of productive conversations
  • Consider why leaders often ignore differences
  • Look at the benefits of talking across differences
  • Survey best practices for structuring these discussions
  • Learn techniques for turning derailed discussions into productive conversations
  • Brainstorm methods particular to your organization

Deanna Singh Speaker Videos

• A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming an Inclusive Workplace with Deanna Singh

  
  Author Deanna Singh on how to create an inclusive workplace

  
• 3 Things: Building An Inclusive Workplace with Deanna Singh

  

  Social Entrepreneur and Change Advocate Deanna Singh dives deeper into the construct of inclusion in the workplace in our "3 Things You Need To Know" interview series.
  Centering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Team Building

  
• THINK Business LIVE with Deanna Singh, Founder of Flying

  
  GRACE under pressure: John Baldoni with Deanna Singh - YouTube

  

Deanna Singh News

• More Awesome Black Women Everyone Should Know

  Clockwise from the top left: Allison Smith, Lesley Slaton Brown, Minda Harts, Pamela Newkirk, Leslie ... [+] Short, Sandra Appiah Babu-Boateng and Deanna Singh ...

• UTLC 2019 | Urban Teaching & Leadership Conference

  Be empowered by world-class speakers including Deanna Singh; Gain useful takeaways, including valuable resources that will transform your effectiveness ...