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Shift Leadership

We Need a New Paradigm for Leadership

We are grappling with a range of challenges in the workplace in this difficult moment: conflicting preferences for working hybrid vs. in-person; changes to people’s mindsets about work; cultural and generational differences; increased mental health issues including burnout; tension caused by geopolitical conflict; public and legal attacks on DEI; and more.

Our teams are struggling and our work environments are filled with issues that traditional ways of leading will not be able to address.

We need a new paradigm for leadership – one that is rooted in the fundamental principle that we must prioritize our team members’ needs first and foremost. And to make this happen, we, as leaders, must alter how we behave.

Shift Leadership Focuses on Individual Leader Behavior & Culture Change

At bci, we’re calling this new paradigm “Shift Leadership” because not only do we need to shift how we view leadership but, as leaders, we must shift our behaviors – which is about adjusting and adapting how we show up in the workplace.

While the focus of Shift Leadership may appear to be at the individual leader level, Shift Leadership is ultimately about creating organizational cultures that center team members’ needs and experiences – which, of course, leads to high-performance and success for all stakeholders.

Why Shift Leadership Training is Important for Executive Teams

Given the complexity, diversity, and nuanced nature of work environments in this moment, executive leadership teams must be equipped with a range of multi-disciplinary skills – skills that reflect the latest research on how to create healthy, vibrant, engaged, and collaborative workplaces. This is precisely what Shift Leadership training offers to executive leaders and their teams.

Why Choose bci for Shift Leadership Training

bci’s leadership experts have now worked with hundreds of organizations across industries, presented to hundreds of thousands of people, and coached over a thousand leaders globally. In addition, we have now developed deep expertise across a range of fundamental leadership areas, which together with our vast training experience, enables us to offer high impact Shift Leadership training. Leadership skills development must be multi-disciplinary, which is what bci is known for.

Our Shift Leadership training draws on our in-depth knowledge of these areas:

Did You Know?

Shift Leadership is a cutting-edge reframe of leadership.

“Old ways won’t open new doors.” For over a decade now, the business community has recognized that we need to course correct how we engage, inspire, and incentivize our teams. But very little has been done to create change.

Shift Leadership is focused on addressing the core root of the leadership challenges we’re experiencing with talent management: that we cannot unlock the greatest good for our organizations until we prioritize the needs of our team members. But we will only be able to do this by holding leaders accountable for addressing and healing their own internal blocks, barriers, negative narratives, and wounds. This reframe of leadership is transformative.

All of bci’s leadership training can be offered virtually or in-person.

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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.