21 | Developing and Implementing a Multicultural Vision

“I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free.”
	Michelangelo

Research shows that visions can be a force for “programming” our futures. How can the process of envisioning open up new possibilities in myself and my organization? How can it help drive personal development and organizational change? This workshop will help participants use vision to address the opportunities and challenges raised by diversity and explore implementation strategies that feed off the power of the envisioning process.

Designed for
Professionals with experience in multicultural endeavors, including educators, diversity consultants, change agents, and business, government, and other organizational leaders.

Objectives
Participants will have the opportunity to explore:

• The power of the envisioning process
• Concrete personal and organizational multicultural visions
• Individual diversity-related goals and challenges
• Analytical frameworks for dealing with intercultural issues
• Grounded approaches to multicultural dilemmas
• Vision-driven intercultural leadership skills
• Strategies for surviving the rigors of diversity work

Learning Activities

• Envisioning personal and organizational futures
• Sharing and exploring individual challenges
• Evaluating multicultural analytical frameworks
• Applying intercultural leadership strategies
• Using media to explore multicultural dilemmas

Faculty: Carlos Cortés and Louise Wilkinson

Dr. Carlos Cortés is a professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Riverside. Recipient of the American Society for Training and Development’s National Multicultural Trainer of the Year Award, he lectures throughout the world and serves on the faculties of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education and the Federal Executive Institute. Carlos is creative/cultural advisor for Nickelodeon’s “Dora the Explorer” and “Go, Diego, Go!” and also performs his one-person autobiographical play, “A Conversation with Alana: One Boy’s Multicultural Rite of Passage.” His books include The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity and The Making—and Remaking—of a Multiculturalist.

Dr. Louise C. Wilkinson teaches diversity and intercultural competence at the Boeing Company. She has developed curricula and taught leadership, globalization, and intercultural competence at the Boeing Leadership Center as well as intercultural communication, teaming, and media literacy at several universities. An award-winning film and video writer/producer/director, Louise has researched the use of film and video for intercultural education, as discussed in her recent article, “A Developmental Approach to Uses of Moving Pictures in Intercultural Education,” in the International Journal of Intercultural Relations. She also holds a coaching certification focused on intercultural relations.