Advancing Equity through Organizational Culture and Operations | FRE Session 4

In this fourth session of the Foundations of Racial Equity series, we will deepen our understanding and awareness of how our identities  impact our work. We will practice discussing experiences of identity, which is out of pattern for most workplaces. In the two modules of this session, participants will engage in conversation and activities to link their identity to their experience of culture and operations within their organizations.

We will cover topics like organizational culture, human resources, vendors, operating capital, investments, and partnerships. As we often think of program folks as those who lead in equity work, we’ll zoom in on the organizational approach to equity, reminding ourselves that everyone in an organization has a role in advancing equity.

Our time together will close with a reflection on possible implications for future work and development given your specific organizational goals.

Join us to:

• Deepen identity self-reflection, and explore the nature of identity and its construction.
• Link patterns of thinking and behavior to cultural and operational practices at work.
• Explore how dominant and non-dominant identities influence organizational culture and operations.
• Practice sharing our own stories of identity and how they inform our experiences, approaches, and decisions with our colleagues as well as those we seek to serve.

Session Info

The Series is made up of six sessions. Each session includes two modules. 

Module A: Wednesday, October 13 | 1:00pm – 3:30 pm PT

Module B: Wednesday, October 20 | 1:00pm – 3:30 pm PT

Registration Fees

• Members: $100 per session or $500 for the full series
• Nonmembers: $150 per session or $750 for the full series

Speakers

Trina Olson, Co-Founder + CEO, Team Dynamics

Trina Olson is a two-time executive director with a track record of building and retaining teams across race, gender, and sexual orientation to achieve shared goals. Trina has built an impressive portfolio of national and regional policy and advocacy experience, centering a multitude of progressive issues, including healthcare, hunger, a living wage, immigration reform, transgender-inclusive non-discrimination, and more. Trina has made her home in eighteen U.S. cities, including Seattle, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, New York, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles. A queer, white, cis-gender woman, Trina is motivated by the ways job creators could be addressing the intersection of identity and workplace more creatively and consistently to address the pervasive inequities still at play across race and gender, in particular.

Alfonso Wenker, Co-Founder + President, Team Dynamics

Alfonso Wenker is a seasoned executive leader and facilitator of transformational organizational culture and strategy campaigns. Serving in major leadership roles within the field of philanthropy, Alfonso has been responsible for driving sector and systems-wide change to diversify both perspective and personnel in order to better steward resources responsible for underwriting major movements. A Latinx, gay, cis-gender man, Alfonso was born and raised on the west side of Saint Paul, MN, to a Mexican mother and white father. Consequently, Alfonso has often been the ‘first’ or ‘only’ person on a team who is a Person of Color, gay person, or both throughout his career. He has experienced, first hand, how the attempted diversification in the U.S. workplace has both made strides and done accidental harm. Before Team Dynamics, Alfonso was Vice President for the Minnesota Council on Foundations, where he grew the organization’s racial equity strategy. Alfonso is a highly sought-after speaker and executive coach. Alfonso’s leadership has been recognized as a 40 Under 40 Awardee, Facing Race Anti-Racism Award and as a Policy Fellow at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

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