Our Areas of Expertise
Empowering Professionals
Leadership Training Focusing on Empowerment Unlocks Belonging in the Workplace
Research tells us that experiences with bias often cause professionals from communities that experience inequities to mask aspects of their identities in the workplace. bci has developed a suite of targeted training, practices, and strategies to empower professionals to stand in their power in the face of bias, feel more confident, and experience heightened authenticity and belonging.
We are Passionate About Empowering Professionals to Thrive
At bci, we are deeply committed to equipping Professionals of Color, women, LGBTQ+ professionals, and professionals from other equity-seeking communities with the leadership tools to thrive and experience belonging in the workplace. Our hands-on style of training combines deep expertise in leadership, skills development, empowerment, DEI, trauma healing, mental health, and wellness strategies — including the teachings from Ritu’s bestselling books We’ve Got This (also an award-winner) and The Authenticity Principle, guidebooks for those looking to live their best, both personally and professionally.
Why Choose bci for Empowerment Training
Empowering professionals – especially those who experience heightened inequities – is the heart of all the work we do at bci and we have built deep expertise in this area. We are committed to providing practical strategies around how to embrace and leverage cultural differences so that everyone can experience authenticity, belonging, and advancement at work.
We have facilitated hundreds of workshops in this space and have developed leadership and empowerment training that focuses on the specific opportunities and challenges that professionals face in the workplace. Our experts draw on their personal experiences navigating corporate cultures to tackle these issues in a direct, empathetic, and practical way.
We combine our extensive expertise in leadership, skills development, empowerment, DEI, trauma healing, mental health, and wellness, to bring a more nuanced approach to our programming.
We consistently receive excellent feedback that the vulnerable, transparent, empathetic, and inclusive ways in which we teach inspires professionals to excel and thrive.
Thriving and Claiming Belonging in the Workplace
Navigating the pressures and expectations of the workplace can be complicated and challenging for professionals at the best of times, let alone in the wake of rapidly changing work environments affected by challenges in greater society.
Our targeted empowerment training teaches professionals to leverage leadership, empowerment, DEI, and wellness strategies so that they can thrive personally and professionally during this difficult time. From bias awareness and claiming belonging to wellness and mindfulness strategies, our training equips professionals with key strategies for thriving in their career advancement, standing in their power, being authentic, and claiming belonging.
Did You Know?
The internalization of bias is a real thing.
When we grow up with constant messaging to change who we are, it can lead us to internalize the negative messaging coming our way and believe that there is, in fact, something wrong with us because we are different.
We can come to believe the negative messaging, the biases, the assumptions, and the judgment. We can stop believing in ourselves, and we start to feel unworthy, which can lead us to self-censor, to lean out as opposed to leaning in, and more.
Essentially it can lead to self-hate.
Leadership Coaching for Professionals of Color
We want to help Professionals of Color thrive as they enter and move through leadership ranks, which is why we offer a performance coaching program designed specifically for Professionals of Color.
This program, developed by DEI and empowerment coach Dr. Komal Bhasin, provides targeted coaching to help leaders of color harness their place, position, and identity in order to thrive in the workplace and beyond.
Shift Leadership Executive Coaching
We need a new paradigm for cultivating career advancement, belonging, and engagement – particularly for leaders who want to experience greater professional advancement, success, joy, and wellness. At bci, we’re calling this new paradigm Shift Leadership.
bci’s Shift Leadership Executive Coaching program was designed by Ritu Bhasin, drawing on her expertise in coaching over a thousand professionals and working with hundreds of globally-renowned organizations. Ritu has combined leadership best practices, strategies, and tools, to create this executive coaching program that provides leaders with strategic direction on how to strengthen their skills, cultivate greater belonging at work, create more personal and organizational impact, experience deep-rooted professional and personal joy, and more.
All of bci’s empowerment training can be offered virtually or in-person.
We’ve Got This
Unlocking the Beauty of Belonging
Many of us feel constant pressure to mask and curate who we are — to perform as someone we’re not rather than be who we are. And it hurts us. But we don’t need to live this way.
With Ritu’s bestselling and award-winning book We’ve Got This, she offers readers a roadmap for how to claim belonging so that you can thrive. And it also offers leaders an opportunity to become better allies by practicing empathy and learning about the barriers to belonging — all to unlock belonging for yourself and for others.
The Authenticity Principle
Empowerment and Leadership Resources for Professionals
BOOK
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
by Resmaa Menakem
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