Inclusion Starts with White Male Leaders

In the fall of 2016, sitting in a classroom full of change practitioners at the Kansas Leadership Center, I was reminded that some changes are harder than others – in this case we were talking about “white privilege” and all that it entails. That week was a catalyst for me to lean into the space […]

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White Men: Time to Discover Your Cultural Blind Spots – TEDx Talk

White men rarely, if ever, are required to examine their own culture. In this timely and provocative talk, Michael Welp speaks to his own experience becoming conscious of his white male culture, bias, and privilege as key tools to effective partnership across diversity. Michael Welp, PhD. is a co-founder of White Men as Full Diversity […]

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50 Years Later Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy Continues to Shape Our Society

The assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis on April 4, 1968, continues to reverberate throughout the nation in large and small ways almost 50 years later. In many ways our nation is still trying to recover from King’s death and the opportunities for racial equality, economic justice and peace.

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Four Days to Change: 12 Radical Habits to Overcome Bias and Thrive in a Diverse World by White Men as Full Diversity Partners co-founder, Michael Welp. Based on twenty years of pioneering workshops engaging white male leaders in transforming their own mindsets, building leadership skills, and creating powerful partnerships at work and at home, […]

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100% Recommend CISL’s Immersive Learning Experience

Emerging World has published the results of their latest research on the long-term impact of Corporate International Service Learning (CISL) experiences. The study, completed in collaboration with leading global organizations including Microsoft, Merck and EY, found that “100 % of participants recommended a CISL experience to a colleague”. The results strongly endorse CISL’s positive and […]

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Lifelong learning and changing perceptions in 48 hours!

At Emerging World, corporate international service learning experiences comes in all shapes and sizes. In this firsthand account, you’ll learn about the impact a group of senior leaders from Kuwait Petroleum Company had on UK-based charity EDT (Engineering Development Trust) which focuses on providing STEM – science, technology, engineering and mathematics experiences for young people […]

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Is Your Organization Ready for Immersive Learning?

Immersive learning is learning by doing. Taking the participant out of their comfort zone, by immersing them in a real-world experience as an integral part of the learning. It provides impactful learning outcomes that equip participants with the awareness, skills and mindset required to successfully lead in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world. […]

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Developing Leaders with Action Learning

As many of you have experienced, leaders are facing the impact of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) even though they may not have come across the expression. We believe there is a way to grow individuals, so they are more able to handle the complexity in the world around us. We start by drawing […]

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Scaling Action Learning at Microsoft

One of the characteristics of high potential leaders is their ability to think and act quickly in their domains of expertise. However, challenges that organizations increasingly face require extensive cross boundary work and exploration, which requires new skills set. Microsoft asked Sage Ways to design a 1-day learning event to address this area of skill […]

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Recommended Reading

In complex situations, prediction, control, and the right answer are illusions. Rather than offering one-size-fits-all tips and tricks in pursuit of these mirages, authors Jennifer Garvey Berger and Keith Johnston provide three integral practices that enable leaders to navigate the unknown. By taking multiple perspectives, asking different questions, and seeing more of their system, leaders […]

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