Training and Workshops
Transform Your Workplace with Inclusive, Evidence-Based Training
Curated Leadership delivers high-impact DEI training and workplace culture workshops designed to address your organization’s real challenges and learning goals. Whether you need in-person facilitation or virtual sessions, our expert trainers use interactive tools, real-world scenarios, and evidence-based frameworks to deepen understanding of bias, microaggressions, allyship, inclusive leadership, psychological safety, and equitable workplace practices.
Our approach is never one-size-fits-all. Every workshop is customized to meet your people where they are—providing actionable strategies for HR teams, people managers, and senior leaders to strengthen communication, build trust, and foster belonging. Sessions are practical, engaging, and rooted in current DEI and organizational development research, ensuring sustained culture change, improved employee engagement, and measurable organizational impact.
New Workshops
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AI is reshaping the workplace and raising equity concerns.
This session examines bias in technology, data privacy, and responsible adoption of AI.
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With multiple generations working side-by-side, differences in communication styles, technology preferences, feedback expectations, and career values can create friction—or fuel stronger teams.
This interactive two-hour workshop explores what shapes generational perspectives without relying on stereotypes, and helps participants recognize the strengths each group brings.
Through practical scenarios and guided discussion, participants will gain tools to reduce misunderstandings, build trust across career stages, and create inclusive team norms where everyone feels respected, heard, and positioned to contribute. -
Young people entering the workforce often face unique barriers that impact their ability to thrive and advance in professional settings.
This interactive two-hour workshop explores the structural, interpersonal, and cultural challenges that youth encounter, including ageism, lack of mentorship, limited access to networks, and systemic discrimination.
Through discussion, case studies, and collaborative reflection, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how to create more supportive, equitable pathways for youth employment and retention.
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This workshop explores the real factors that hold women back from leadership and focuses on practical policy changes that make a measurable difference.
Participants will look at common barriers, learn what policies actually move the needle, and start shaping a small action plan they can bring back to their organization.
Signature Workshops
Principles of Anti-Oppression: Foundations for Inclusive Workplace Culture
Organizations struggle with disengagement, inequitable systems, and unclear expectations around inclusion. This workshop builds the foundational awareness teams need to strengthen workplace culture and reduce bias-based conflict.
Participants will:
Understand how systemic inequities and power operate across institutional, interpersonal, and internalized levels
Explore social identity and its impact on team dynamics and employee engagement
Build fluency in essential DEI and workplace culture terminology
Learn practical strategies to support equitable, culturally responsive workplaces
Ideal for:
Teams beginning their DEI learning journey or addressing barriers to belonging, retention, and psychological safety.
Reframing Power: Exploring Identity and Privilege in the Workplace
Miscommunication, inequitable decision-making, and inconsistent access to opportunity often arise from unexamined privilege and power. This workshop helps teams develop the self-awareness and shared language needed to strengthen collaboration and reduce conflict.
Participants will:
Examine how personal, structural, and institutional power shape workplace culture and advancement
Understand how privilege influences communication, leadership, and team engagement
Use identity-mapping and reflection to build deeper intercultural competence
Identify actionable ways to leverage influence for equity, allyship, and psychological safety
Ideal for:
Organizations seeking to improve cross-functional collaboration, reduce bias, and build a more inclusive and high-performing culture.
Inclusive Leadership: Creating Workplace Cultures of Belonging
Leaders often struggle to address bias, build trust, and maintain high engagement across diverse teams. This workshop develops inclusive leadership capabilities that improve retention, strengthen psychological safety, and drive measurable culture change.
Participants will:
Build skills in inclusive decision-making, equitable communication, and bias-aware leadership
Learn how to identify and interrupt microaggressions in real time
Strengthen belonging and team trust using the 4Cs of Inclusive Leadership
Leave with practical tools, leadership playbooks, and a roadmap for sustainable workplace culture transformation
Ideal for:
Managers, HR leaders, and executives responsible for employee retention, team performance, and building inclusive workplace culture.
Core Workshops
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In this workshop, participants will learn common vocabulary and practical tools related to equity, diversity, and inclusion. In addition, you will develop skills to recognize and counteract unconscious bias, and gain a deeper understanding of how bias manifests in personal and professional relationships through case studies and activities, with a focus on personal narrative to explore identity, power, privilege, and bias.
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Participants will gain foundational knowledge on microaggressions, biases, power dynamics and systems of oppression, and acquire practical tools to recognize, address and interrupt microaggressions in personal and professional contexts.
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Participants will explore Reconciliation, decolonization and treaty responsibility through the TRC Calls to Action, develop personal connections with Land Acknowledgements, engage in decolonial discourse, while understanding the significance of the Two-Row Wampum Belt Treaty and recognizing their role in settler colonialism.
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Participants will review terms such as anti-oppression, equity, equality, intersectionality, power and privilege, and build knowledge on advocacy to differentiate between performative and authentic allyship.
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In this workshop, a brief history and understanding of Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism and antisemitism will be provided, exploring their current manifestations and the spaces needed for generative conversations, while encouraging participants to engage, ask questions and express their learning needs.
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Participants will gain a deeper understanding of what inclusion looks like in an organization, and gain tools supported by frameworks such as Universal Design and Principles of Anti-Oppression to create inclusive communities where diversity is celebrated.
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Participants will learn the distinctions between safe, brave and courageous conversations, using community agreements to foster brave spaces and dialogical frameworks like reframing, “calling in,” and “calling out” for effective discussions.
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Participants will engage in topics of radical self-love and healing for Black, Indigenous and people of colour, such as racial fatigue, decolonization, reconciliation, and what it means to heal as a BIPOC individual in the public sector.
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Participants will explore their authentic self through techniques for coping with adversity and stress, using somatic experiencing to increase self-awareness, listen to body cues, practice radical self-love, and mitigate compassion fatigue, ultimately equipping them with a wellness toolkit for personal and professional use.
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This workshop uses Theatre of the Oppressed conventions to critically examine societal power structures, engaging participants in theatre exercises to explore power, privilege and justice, while providing tools to analyze workplace dynamics, disrupt oppressive structures, and practice conflict resolution and negotiation strategies through Forum Theatre.
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This workshop will help participants deepen their understanding of race and racism, recognize the intersectionality of identity and social oppression, develop skills to recognize and address racism, and gain tools to practice anti-racism in our everyday lives.
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Participants will gain an understanding of ableism and disability justice, recognize the systemic roots of ableism, and develop actionable steps towards an accessible and inclusive organization.
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In this workshop, participants will learn the different components of gender and sexual identity, differentiate between forms of discrimination based on gender and sexuality, develop an understanding of the social and scientific construction of gender, understand the impact of 2SLGBTQIA+ oppression in society, and develop strategies to promote gender and sexual equality.
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In this session, participants will be taught the intersections of age, class, and socioeconomic status, examine societal stereotypes, biases, and prejudices associated with age and class, and gain tools to challenge ageism and classism in personal and personal, professional, and societal contexts.
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In this workshop, participants will understand the forms and types of bias and their impact on young learners, unpack the why and how of talking to children about race, and gain tools for engaging children in courageous conversations about race.
“Sheliza is one of the most dynamic and engaging workshop facilitators I have ever experienced. She brings a creative way to deconstruct and interrogate DEI, power, and oppression in a way that keeps participants reflecting well after the workshop. She is skilled at creating a brave space for audience members from diverse backgrounds and lived experiences.”
– Jordan Harrison, Associate Director of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity, Vertex Pharmaceuticals