Dr. Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins

Dr. Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins developed a new speaking series titled “Moving in a Direction of Equity” to support leaders across industries to reach for excellence in organizational culture.

MADE carves a roadmap for transformational leadership through research, humor, and powerful storytelling.

Leading on his past and present platform, Dr. Jenkins curated the best practices of Black former professional athletes, veterans, and physicians that confront, inform, and heal the consequences of bias in corporate America.

Whether a leader is unaware, indifferent, or ready to act, MADE leverages:

Necessary power
Authentic empathy,
and sustainable strategies
to MOVE IN THE DIRECTION OF EQUITY.

Learning Objectives:

• To understand the sociohistoric barriers that shaped today’s corporate culture
• Demonstrate the implementation of the allyship to equity equation
• To interrogate how organizational culture shapes the motivation, scope, and execution of equity
• Define and implement empathy in internal and external organizational messaging
• Engage the organization’s vertical and horizontal surrounding opportunities for equity
• Share evidence-based approaches that expand the equity denominator through an access framework
• MADE motivates leaders how to see the signs of inequity and craft evidence-based solutions that develop organizational culture.

A catalyst for change that opens the path to healing dialogue.

Tough corporate conversations about inequity where we work, live, and learn can intimidate anyone. The toxicity of corporate environments surfaces when we host dialogue with no destination. No matter the conflict or crisis, organizations need to know why and how to lead critical conversations about tough topics. Dr. Kevin provides a roadmap and guides your company through the art of authentic engagement that reconstructs corporate culture.

Program takeaways:

• Provide the ‘Winning Race’ conversation starters to launch critical conversations with empathy.
• Recognize unheard employees as the experts of their own experiences.
• Implement clear and effective dialogue curriculum that interactively & inclusively embraces all perspectives.
• Talking the “isms” of our world at work is simply unnatural.
• Why regular inclusive dialogue increases revenue while enriching culture.
• How to outline and personalize an Inclusion-first culture.
  This powerful topic can be delivered as a keynote or workshop for your team.

Renovating a structure that’s already standing remains more difficult than building from the ground up.

Dr. Jenkins helps companies stare down the challenges of changing corporate culture. He provides a blueprint toward re-building corporate culture anchoring equitable engagement and decision-making. Dr. Jenkins helps companies plan, promote, and preserve data-driven DEI best practices. This powerful keynote converts DEI from corporate responsibility to corporate revenue.

Program takeaways:

• Deploys evidence-based case studies for internal alignment and activation of inclusive culture.
• Delivers a clear implementation framework for sustainable culture shifts with DEI at the center.
• Defines considerations for accountability through equitable messaging and enforcement of inclusive culture.
• Detail on how to authentically recruit & retain top talent from underrepresented groups.

“Win When” carves a roadmap to professional development through research, humor, and powerful storytelling.

Leaning on his past and present platforms, Dr. Kevin curated the best-practices of Black former professional athletes, veterans, and physicians that confronts, informs, and heals the consequences of bias in the corporate America.

Countless racial and ethnic minority employees share their struggles with race and identity in the workplace, the suffocation of success, and a looming fear of failure with no long-lasting DEI solutions.

Whether a teammate is unaware, indifferent, or ready to act, Win When, leverages necessary power, authentic empathy, and sustainable strategies to bringing equity to action.

Program takeaways:

• Understand the concepts of structural racism, inclusion & diversity, & overall equity.
• Discover how organizational culture shapes the motivation, scope, and execution of equity.
• Investigate the process and measurement of achieving equity through contemporary best practices.
• This program can be tailored for corporate audiences, healthcare professionals, and athletes.

(Interactive Workshops / Bootcamps)

Lopsided performance reviews and differential employee engagement hurt companies far worse than simply having no DE&I strategy. Dr. Kevin reimagines communication, incentives, and socialization to promote high-performance work environments.

Highlights from this workshop:

• Train managers on how to enhance equity & inclusion by mitigating the common challenges that induce conflict.
• Establish culturally sensitive internal review metrics and processes that measure underrepresented groups.
• Develop a sustainable crisis management plan for inclusion and diversity challenges.

(Interactive Workshops / Bootcamps)

Your organization may need more interactive engagement after the opening DEI salvo. Our Equity Coaching Clinic provides a hyper-focus on one specific pain-point and executes the workshop experience in an hour. If your organizations’ board, departments or leaders need to go deeper in this content with one trusted voice, our Equity Coaching Clinic was designed for you.

Dr. Kevin gets your company “unstuck” and shapes strategy using thought-provoking activities that advise you through the most noted challenges after the big DEI speech.

Key topics include:

• Inclusion First Culture Assessment
• Equitable conversations
• Equitable messaging
• Equitable partnership building
• Internal Review Framework
• Crisis Management (2 sessions)
• Diversity Pipeline Development
• Equitable measurement and evaluation

(Interactive Workshops / Bootcamps)

Winning Race bootcamps are geared towards cross-functional team managers and executives and can be delivered virtually and in-person. Dr. Kevin energizes, empowers, and educates using his award-winning approaches for adult learners.

Before we begin the hard work of building and sustaining an inclusive corporate culture, Dr. Kevin performs an organizational culture diagnostic. He uses internal data from evidence-based assessments to perform predictive modeling techniques to identify patterns of success and concern.

Program takeaways:

• Face how to manage through racial crisis and societal injustice.
• Detail how to authentically recruit & retain top talent from underrepresented groups.
• Develop strategic plans and playbooks that roadmap internal & external best practices.