The NW Diversity Learning Series has become a popular diversity education resource in the Puget Sound Region. A collaborative venture, progressive companies and organizations joined forces 10 years ago to accelerate their diversity and inclusion efforts while at the same time lowering their costs. The Series consists of bimonthly, morning workshops on cutting-edge diversity and inclusion topics. Every other month, managers and employees from the Sponsor organizations as well as individuals from other organizations in the Region, come together for a 3.5-hour interactive session. The session outcomes are to provide knowledge and skills about how to apply inclusion principles and strategies back in their workplaces.
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 | Emily Sugiyama on session six |
 | Jessica Bray on session three |
| Jessica Bray on session three |
| Jennifer Kreger on executive session |
| Jennifer Kreger on session three |
When The GilDeane Group (Carlos Gil and myself, Barbara Deane) partnered with Susan Funk of The Diversity Difference here in Seattle 10 years ago to launch the NW Diversity Learning Series with Puget Sound companies and organizations, I never imagined we would develop 10 years worth of diversity education workshops!
As a result of these 10 years, I appreciate more than ever how much of a learning journey diversity and inclusion really are. I have learned so much from the wide array of presenters at the morning Series sessions, and this was AFTER I wrote and edited articles about diversity for 10 years (we began publishing Cultural Diversity at Work journal in 1988).
So, based on my own experience, it doesn’t matter when you start your learning journey about diversity and inclusion, it’s just important to start. In the process, you not only increase your personal competency with people who are different than you are, but you increase your competency as an advocate for inclusive treatment for others. If you can accomplish these two things in the world, what better legacy could you leave?