DiverseCity Perspectives is a channel for exploring different perspectives on what diversity means to us and how we can take full advantage of everything it has to offer. Through leadership interviews and dialogue activities, we will generate, collect, and disseminate approaches to changing how leaders are imagined, shaped and chosen.
Invitation to host a dialogue
In Perspectives, we’re inviting partners and volunteers from Peel, York and Toronto to start leadership dialogues that will explore how we imagine leaders and offer practical steps to diversify leadership.
It’s a “workout”
With the Perspectives dialogues and our forthcoming video stories of interesting leaders from across the region, we’ll engage audiences in a transformational “workout” that will stretch and re-shape how we think about leaders and leadership, with the goal of allowing a new kind of leadership to emerge.
Interested in hosting and leading a dialogue?
DiverseCity welcomes you to join other dialogue leaders in a 1-day training session on how to create dialogue opportunities in your organizations, networks, and communities.
By participating in the dialogue training, you will be able to
- Expand your networks to include champions of diversity in leadership from different sectors
- Enhance your skills in conversation/dialogue and learn how to host a 2-3 hour interactive leadership dialogue
- Explore your own perspectives on diversity in a practice dialogue
- Become informed of key findings of the DiverseCity initiative
- Strengthen your facilitation skills and receive support in planning follow-up activities
How to get involved
You might be well-positioned to be a dialogue leader if you have some experience in facilitation, particularly around diversity, and if you have access to an audience of leaders that you want to engage and energize. We invite those who will commit to facilitating 1-2 dialogue activities or discussions to join DiverseCity Perspectives and participate in training. Prospective dialogue leaders might be
- Leadership-/governance-level volunteers or managers at a non-profit or public organization (e.g. in environment, arts & culture, etc.)
- Members of diversity councils or committees at a public, private, or non-profit organization
- Part of a leadership network or association within an institution or sector
Trainings will take place in August/September (details to follow). Space is limited.
Please express your interest and preferred timing here.
For more information, contact: perspectives@diversecitytoronto.ca
Perspectives is funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
