MARC Leaders Immersive Cross-Company – Houston, TX

MARC Leaders is an immersive and interactive 1.5-day cross-company workshop for directors through senior executives that inspires participants to stand up for gender equity.

Guided by a skilled cross-gender facilitator pair, participants will:

Develop a more visceral understanding of:

• How gender dynamics, roles, norms, and social conditioning link to the workplace and leadership.
• How systemic advantages and disadvantages, privilege, and bias impact employees.
• How the experience of “otherness” affects relationship building and bridging divides.
• What it means to recognize intersectional and multidimensional identities.
• Why we need male champions and advocates.
• What effective gender partnership looks like and why it is important.

Practice skills to:

• Recognize, talk about, and address bias and privilege with empathy and understanding.
• Engage in courageous dialogue and perspective sharing to build connections.
• Proactively challenge bias, stereotypes and exclusionary behaviors in a range of workplace settings and processes.
• Communicate and lead more inclusively.
• Partner across difference.

Commit to:

• Achieving concrete, personal goals for continued learning and leadership on gender equity.
• Building alliances and mutual support.
• Holding themselves and other leaders accountable