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DEI Foundations Training

Because an inclusive workplace is important to everyone.

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DEI Foundations
Speaker Spotlight

Cassandra Polyzou

Champion for DEI and Inclusion: With over 10 years of experience, Cassandra specializes in advancing equality, workplace inclusion, and community engagement. Her work spans the engineering sector, academia, and government institutions, addressing systemic challenges with an intersectional lens.

Lived Experience: As a queer, cis-gender, neurodivergent woman, Cassandra is dedicated to creating inclusive spaces and amplifying marginalized voices.

Professional Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree, Cultural Analysis and Social Theory

  • Leadership and Inclusion Certificate, Algonquin College

  • 4 Seasons of Reconciliation Certificate, Reconciliation Education

  • Local Change Agent, APMG-International Certification

  • Facilitation Training, Facilitation First

Cassandra, DEI Foundations, Facilitator

Esther Li

DEI Researcher and Advocate: Esther brings over 7 years of experience, specializing in cultural psychology and mental health. Her work examines how culture and language influence mental well-being.

Professional Experience and Commitment: As a Indigeneity, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Ambassador, Esther has collaborated with the Immigrants and Refugees Association to deepen her understanding of cultural complexities.

Professional Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree, Developmental Psychology

  • PhD Candidate specializing in Enculturation, Acculturation, Multiculturalism, and Linguistics

  • Gender and Sexuality: Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate, University of Pittsburgh

  • Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate, Essec Business School

  • Ethics in Public Policy Certificate, O.P. Jindal Global University

Esther Li-DEI Foundations Facilitator
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Looking for ConnectED eLearning?

Set up your team with continuous DEI eLearning developed by industry leaders. Interactive, engaging, thought-provoking, it keeps the momentum going in your organization’s DEI journey.

What’s covered in your DEI Foundations virtual session?

This live-learning 1 hour DEI Foundations session provides tools to build an inclusive workplace and answers the question “what does diversity, equity and inclusion mean for me?”.

Your team will gain an understanding of:

  • How diversity, equity and inclusion benefits your workplace

  • Key concepts of diversity, equity and inclusion

  • Internal, external, and organizational dimensions of diversity

  • Practical actions for supporting anti-racism and allyship in daily life

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What’s included with your DEI Foundations training:

  • Expert-led virtual session that is educational, positive & interactive

  • Unlimited participants

  • Shareable training recording

  • Feedback survey results and takeaway resources for continued learning

Price: $2,500 for your team

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Can DEI training really make an impact?

Discover how an interactive 1-hour interactive training resulted in a fully engaged team and a growing partnership.

Real Talk from Our Customers

“Thought-provoking questions and learning”

Many Alimentarians attended and were treated to thought-provoking questions, and learning around equity, inclusion and belonging, as well as unconscious bias and microaggressions.

Arti Ramji
Director, Diversity & Learning

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“A good mix of sharing information and seeking participation”

“Helpful training and I thought the two trainers had a great flow and had a good mix of sharing information and seeking participation from the group.”

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Media Company

“Made myself and other more aware.”

This is a great information session. I look forward to learning more from the team in the future, although some information is hard to hear. It's important that it is heard and understood and I believe that this presentation made myself and others more aware.

Training Participant
Non-Profit Organization

“No judgment from the CultureAlly team”

There is no judgment from the CultureAlly team! They are always there to listen and provide specific, actionable feedback that will work best for our organization. They also challenge us to think outside the box and come up with creative solutions.

Grace McKenzie
Senior Employee Experience / People Operations

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