Our Services

Training

Executive Leadership, Talent Management & DEI Training to Meet Your Needs

bci’s training sessions are designed to meet the development needs of any audience, with a focus on executive leadership teams, boards of directors, middle-management, and professionals from underrepresented communities. Whether you’re looking for in-depth workshops, keynotes, or fireside chats for your conferences, town halls, retreats, ERG meetings, or other events, we have the expertise to help you.

We offer advanced level programming to support the continued development of executive leaders, as well as foundational content, to organizations. We are experts at navigating difficult leadership, talent management, and DEI conversations with even the toughest, most skeptical audiences with grace, empathy, and tact.

Experienced, Practical Training for Your Organization

Our leadership experts have presented to hundreds of organizations around the world and bci is known for our niche content and expertise in a range of leadership, talent management, and DEI areas. All our training is grounded in innovative, data-driven frameworks and are regularly updated to incorporate the latest leadership research. Our training focuses on practical, experiential learning so your leaders and teams can immediately shift their behavior in real-world situations.

Our Training Options

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In-Person Training

bci offers hands-on in-person training with our team of experts, focusing on cutting-edge research and strategies to push individual behavioral change and organizational change
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Virtual Training

bci offers all of our training in a virtual environment – with a focus on webinars and videoconferencing – so that you can provide experiential inclusion learning opportunities to a broad range of audiences

Spotlight on One of Our Key Training Sessions

Cultivating Belonging, Empathy & Psychological Safety in the Workplace

Our popular workshop “Cultivating Belonging, Empathy & Psychological Safety in the Workplace” spotlights the tenets of Shift Leadership and equips leaders with hands-on, practical tools for cultivating fundamental leadership skills. Key learning takeaways from this session include:

  • The link between empathy, psychological safety, belonging, inclusion, engagement, and innovation
  • Concrete strategies for creating meaningful connections and holding constructive conversations
  • Key principles for relationship-building that are rooted in empathy, belonging, psychological safety, and inclusion
  • The important of leveraging The Three Selves FrameworkTM, a powerful model for fostering authenticity, belonging, and inclusion in the workplace
  • A methodology for holding impactful and inclusive coaching conversations
  • The key role of language in cultivating belonging, empathy, psychological safety, and inclusion – must-use language for executive leaders when building bridges across cultural differences
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Ritu Bhasin stands in front of a projector screen smiling at a seated crowd while giving a keynote speech

We know that budgets and geography can sometimes be a challenge. We’re committed to working with you to find the most cost-effective and impactful ways to deliver training across regions, business units, executive leadership teams, and employee groups.

Inclusion Assessment for Executive Leaders

Take your leadership training to the next level by leveraging the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) with your executive teams. The IDI is the leading tool used to measure the cultural competence of an individual leader, team, or organization.

By leveraging this tool along with our training sessions, we can help you to benchmark inclusion and belonging within your organization and equip your leaders with skills for cultivating more inclusive talent management processes.

Ritu’s workshop was incredibly powerful and inspiring, and the participants left feeling empowered and with a wealth of knowledge and tools they could apply in their personal and professional life. Planning the workshop and working with Ritu was an amazing experience. Her willingness to listen to our needs and adapt the workshop to the context in which it was being positioned was indeed praiseworthy. I would highly recommend Ritu for her authentic leadership and deep expertise in the field of DEI.

Ankita Sharma

Organizational Development Consultant, Purolator

It’s hard to provide training that is both on point and inspiring, but working with Komal impressed us and left us eager to learn more.

Emily Gora

Project Development Officer, The Skills Centre

The most enjoyable aspect about working with Ritu is her consistent sense of connectedness and authenticity… Ritu took the time to understand and inventory where we were in our DEI training journey and subsequently crafted those trainings to meet our needs. bci was able to deliver trainings that were timely, relevant and impactful. I would recommend bhasin consulting inc.!

Joel Acie

Diversity and Inclusion Program Manager, FHL Bank Pittsburgh

Dr. Komal Bhasin, MSW, MHSc, DocSocSci

Komal is bci’s Senior DEI Consultant and Mental Health Expert-in-Residence and an accomplished DEI facilitator, coach, and strategist. Komal has over 20 years of experience in providing strategic and advisory guidance and program development across a range of sectors, with a particular concentration in mental health and racial inclusion. Komal is also the founder of Insayva Inc., a social enterprise focused on providing accessible DEI and health equity support to charities and non-profit organizations.

Komal has extensive experience in creating and delivering programming in a range of DEI areas, including unconscious bias, cultural competence, mental health inclusion, psychological safety, and allyship. She is passionate about driving transformational change in workplaces and has worked closely with bci clients – corporations, professional service firms, health care providers, and educational institutions – to embed cultures of DEI within their organizations.

Komal has provided one-on-one inclusion coaching to hundreds of senior leaders and brings a unique approach that is informed by her background as a psychotherapist. Using a trauma-informed lens and somatic approaches, she also has experience guiding leaders and teams in mending relationships, and rebuilding trust where harm has occurred due to inequities, intercultural conflict, value mismatches, exclusion, and psychological or geopolitical safety issues, with the goal of creating a more inclusive, resilient or organizational culture.

Komal also offers a performance coaching program designed specifically for BIPOC leaders. This program aims to help BIPOC leaders harness their place, position, and identity to thrive in the workplace and beyond. Komal is a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI).

As bci’s Mental Health Expert-in-Residence, Komal offers tremendous expertise around workplace mental health. As a doctoral trained mental health clinician, certified health executive, and registered social worker, Komal has assisted organizations looking to advance employee mental health inclusion and well-being through offering programming on inclusive dialogue, anti-stigma, burnout prevention, psychological safety, resilience, and self-care. Komal is committed to advancing mental health and wellness across the life course; she currently serves on the board of the Alzheimer’s Society of Ontario and previously served on the board of Children’s Mental Health Ontario and the YMCA of Greater Toronto.

When Komal is not working, you’ll find her painting, cooking or snuggling with her cat.