Email Tonja Wilson for more information. The Detroit Regional Chamber sponsors Leadership Detroit , a 9 month program engaging individuals representing a cross section of the community to create awareness of key issues that affect the Detroit region and to challenge emerging and existing community leaders to bring about positive change in the community through informed leadership. The university s Corporate Language and Cross-Cultural Training program seeks to prepare students to function successfully in an ethnic diverse environment in professional and social settings. Menttium s Executive Development Program is designed for mid-level, high potential, professional women. Its goal is to develop strong women leaders as well as retain and promote diversity in the workplace.
Participants also can attend a four-part seminar series featuring nationally recognized speakers.
MELD is a 12-month training program is designed to create a leadership network in the Detroit area that will work across cultures and institutions. The basic premise of the program is that true multicultural learning does not occur unless people are willing to spend time getting to know and understand other people s differences. Also, New Detroit sponsors a Cultural Exchange Network, a consortium of over 70 community-based organizations that represent the region s five main communities of color, plus other communities. NCCJ runs a diversity consulting program that customizes hands-on training for organizations through data gathering, data analysis, action planning, education and building internal capacity for large scale diversity action steps. The American Institute for Managing Diversity Inc. , an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization that studies of diversity issues, provides educational services, Internet resources and seminar information on workplace diversity via this Web site.