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SAA Workshops
SAA’s Authentic Diversity Leadership Program
We bring history to life and meet our participants where they are.
Our Leadership Workshops move the needle forward.
Click on the video below for a sneak peak.
How do I provide my staff
a platform
to Feel Heard
while valuing others?
We must meet people where they are.
a platform
to Feel Heard
while valuing others?
We must meet people where they are.
Authentic Diversity Leadership Workshops
Our Authentic Diversity Leadership Program has partnered with award-winning historians and global leaders while providing a safe environment to have meaningful dialogue around human and civil rights.
We have created powerful programs impacting over 4,000 students and adults over the past 13 years. We have gained national attention by creating thoughtful leaders with different perspectives as we unpack history through important and relevant conversations.
SAA will customize a program to positively affect your employees and management teams.
Program Core
The core of our program is Human and Civil Rights. That is the basis of the content. Our content starts with the pure understanding and realization of everyone’s human and civil rights. Our three primary focus areas are Black History, the Holocaust/Genocides, and Systemic Racism.
Our workshops engage global leaders who address difficult topics through storytelling and real-life experiences. The Authentic Diversity Program looks to provide invaluable hands-on opportunities and a historical foundation that will enable participants to positively impact our society.
Our approach understands that all participants are in a different place and we provide a flexible platform to meet each person where they are. The content focuses on inclusivity, diversity, equality, and equity.
Corporate Virtual Instructor Led Training
Our team develops a customized Diversity Leadership Workshop Series for each client. This 8-12 hour course can be presented over a few days or multiple weeks depending on our clients needs.
Corporate On-site Led Training
SAA’s Authentic Diversity Team meets in-person with our clients executive group and employees throughout our workshops. Our hands-on engagement is unique and helps create a safe environment allowing us to build trust and camaraderie quickly. SAA provides different perspectives from different backgrounds allowing the group the opportunity to engage more fully and thoughtfully.
On Demand Training Workshops
SAA offers our corporate partners the ability to offer training across the board to all employees or members with our online On Demand Option. Thousands of employees are able to receive our training at the time that best fits each individuals schedule. Our Authentic Diversity Workshops are tailored to the needs of each client and compliments the goals of each organization.
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
—Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We believe to achieve a common understanding,
the first step is to link our history to the present.
The Workshops
We are humbled by the opportunity to partner with a variety of global leaders who have been instrumental in addressing difficult topics that our world is facing. SAA’s curriculum is proven to be effective by closely partnering with leaders that have first-hand experience centered around the holocaust and genocides, civil rights, racism and systemic oppression. This collaboration has resulted in meaningful storytelling and hands-on activities embedded in our workshops. Our framework is flexible and customized in order to reach all participants at all levels.
As we work together, we will tackle important issues and provide perspective in a meaningful way that will be memorable. We aren’t standing on a platform instructing participants to believe one thing and not another. We meet everyone at their starting point.
Authentic Diversity is centered around inclusivity, equality, equity, and empathy.
Workshop Goals
Most likely each organization and participant has set a goal of some sort at the start of our engagement. Authentic Diversity’s role is to lead and enable rather than provide the answers to very difficult issues facing our world today. Diversity in thinking, backgrounds, beliefs, and values is very complex and real. One small step for one could very well be one big step for another. We create environments that enable you to work your own plan with confidence. We do not pretend to understand all of your goals on day one. What we will do is create an interactive framework and offer a safe environment where each participant will be asked to see and hear different points of views.
We will achieve this by:
• Introducing listening techniques and respectful interpersonal skill builders
• Ensure meaningful and impactful discussions through 1:1, small group pods and larger level setting
• Establishing trust and respect with all participants and facilitators
• Enculturate a “listening to understand” and “leading with questions” mentality
• Foster community building that ignites your personal and organizational values
• Share foundational values at a higher level to create opportunities for change
• Create meaningful ways to reach different generations
A special thanks to StudioBE
in New Orleans. B-Mike brings powerful art & history to life! @bmike2c
Testimonials
"I’ve known Randy and DeLano for over 20 years. Human rights and civil rights are their life’s work. Not only have they impacted me personally and professionally with their incredible enthusiasm and thoughtfulness, they have the ability to impact everyone around them. Together with the team they have assembled, they will help all of us move the needle forward. Their genuine hearts and incredible knowledge make them a perfect fit for companies who wish to support their employees during this important time. SAA's Authentic Diversity Program will positively affect you, your employees and community.”
— Delena Coby, EVP Nordstrom
Human Resources and Diversity (Retired)
“We have found SAA’s Authentic Diversity program to present Human Rights and Black History extremely well. The unique way the program is unpacked resonates with the diverse backgrounds of our membership. The Washington Officials Association looks forward to our continued partnership to bring about long lasting change to the culture of officiating in the state of Washington.”
— Todd Stordahl, WOA Executive Director
“My time with SAA opened my eyes to the filters that we all look at life through and how those filters have helped create the institutional racism that is so prevalent in our country today. It was through the work that we did with SAA that has given me the confidence and ability to lean into the real conversations that we all need to be having as leaders.
Change can start with a single conversation, and we need to be having more of those in our offices, classrooms, boardrooms, and courtrooms if we want to eliminate the inequalities in our country. ”
— Karey Fey, Small Business Owner