Leadership Lens Webinars

Thought-Provoking Free Webinars on Cutting-Edge DEI Topics

At bci, we recognize the importance of offering free content in order to spread messages of diversity, equity and inclusion to the widest possible audience.

Since March 2020, we’ve offered at least one free webinar on a DEI topic every month, and have now offered dozens of free webinars, training tens of thousands of participants.

Focusing on a different inclusion area each month, our hour-long free webinars tackle some of the most challenging and sensitive inclusion topics — from effective allyship in the fight against racism to supporting your team’s mental health during a crisis. Our webinars address complex and difficult subjects head-on and offer opportunities for nuanced and thoughtful discussion.

Join Us At Our Next Leadership Lens Webinar!

As our workplaces continue to contend with the heaviness of an increasingly divided world, it underscores the importance of bringing greater connection and care to our interactions with each other.  

Please join bhasin consulting inc. (bci)  for a free webinar on March 28, 2024 from 4-5pm ET, with Dr. Komal Bhasin, bci’s Senior DEIB Consultant and Mental Health Expert-in-Residence, where she will discuss The Fundamentals for Developing Empathy as a Skill. This webinar will focus on how to center empathy in building bridges across differences and fostering team healing. In this session, Komal will explore how we can leverage the skill of empathy, based in science, and use our power, resources, and privilege to support others even when we’re experiencing marginalization ourselves. In her remarks, Komal will focus on the following: 

  • The five steps for developing empathy 
  • How to create a practice that allows you to develop empathy as a skill 
  • How to “hold space” when you want to demonstrate care for others, especially when you are feeling triggered, disconnected, or hold an opposing view 
  • Practical ways to drive inclusion and build psychological safety in the workplace, through openness and connection while minimizing marginalizing behaviours 

 

Everyone is welcome to attend so please spread the word. If you have questions in advance, please send them to us by emailing info@bhasinconsulting.com. We hope to see you online! 

Thursday, March 28th, 4-5pm ET  

In bhasin consulting inc.’s inclusive leadership work, we leverage the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), a highly effective assessment tool for measuring cultural competence. We’ve now administered the IDI to several thousand professionals globally, and here’s what we’ve found: the overwhelming majority of organizations (and leaders) fall in the developmental stage of “Minimization,” which means that while there may be a stated commitment to embracing differences, the lived experience for team members is one of conformity, sameness, and exclusion. 

Minimization is the enemy of inclusion and belonging for several reasons. And this is exactly what we’ll explore during bci’s next Leadership Lens webinar, Interrupting Minimization, the Enemy of Inclusion and Belonging. We’re delighted to announce that on April 24, 2024 from 4-5pm ET, Ritu Bhasin, bci’s CEO and DEI, leadership, and belonging expert, will deliver a (free) keynote-styled webinar that will dig deep into: 

  • What Minimization is and how, as a behavioral bias, it has an adverse impact on equity-seeking professionals  
  • Key cultural competence principles, including the impact of Minimization on cultural dimensions that affect a range of talent management practices  
  • Why focusing on sameness/universalism negatively impacts the retention of equity-seeking professionals and what to do about this 
  • Strategies for how to interrupt Minimization including how to provide career advocacy in an inclusive way  

 

Everyone is welcome to attend, so please spread the word. If you have questions for Ritu, please send them to us  by emailing info@bhasinconsulting.com. We hope to see you online! 

Wednesday, April 24th, 4-5pm ET  

Frequently Asked Questions

At bci, we record our free webinars primarily for internal use, so unfortunately a recording will not be made available for most of our free webinars. However, we regularly upload clips from our webinars to our YouTube channel, and we have select webinar clips from our most recent webinars available for viewing here. We also encourage you to sign up for bci’s mailing list here for resources and updates about upcoming events.

Yes, you can view bci’s latest videos and clips from our past webinars at our YouTube channel here. If you are interested in empowerment content, and how to live your best life, please check out Ritu’s YouTube channel here.

The best way to be notified about our future events and webinars is by signing up for our mailing list, where we share regular updates about upcoming events. Be sure to also follow bci on LinkedIn and Ritu Bhasin on Instagram.

Yes, following each webinar, we send out an email to all attendees with a curated list of resources related to the webinar’s content.

bci’s free webinars take place live via Zoom and require advance registration through the links provided on our website. Immediately after you’ve registered for a bci webinar, you’ll receive an automatic email from Zoom with the login details for the session. You’ll also receive a reminder email from Zoom one day before the webinar. Please be sure to check your junk email folder if you are unable to find these emails. If you are having difficulty, please contact us at info@bhasinconsulting.com.

During bci’s free webinars, we always have the Q&A box and chat board open for attendees to ask questions. If you’d like to submit a question prior to the start of the webinar, please email info@bhasinconsulting.com.

The most common cause of technical difficulties in accessing Zoom webinars is wireless (WiFi) connection issues. You can view the Zoom support page on resolving connection issues here.

If you are having trouble joining a webinar from a particular browser or device, you may want to try signing in using another browser or device or calling in by phone. Information on joining by phone is included in your registration email from Zoom.

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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 services 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 therapist. She is able to expertly handle sensitive conversations and situations and works with leaders to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to advance racial/ethnocultural, gender, and mental health-related equity across teams and organizations. 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.