Diversity & Inclusion Training
Inclusive leadership training for senior executives and boards.
For HR, People & Culture teams, DEI practitioners, governance professionals, executive leadership teams and boards seeking a program that focuses on the strategic leadership decisions that shape organisational culture, talent pipelines, and risk management.
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Behaviour-first. Evidence-based. Built to last.
Strategic, systemic, executive-level
Strategic inclusive leadership capability: driving culture, risk, and performance where the stakes are highest.
Inclusive leadership training for senior executives is a distinct discipline from manager-level programs. Executives influence the systems that shape opportunity across the organisation. Their decisions affect talent pipelines, investment priorities, organisational culture, governance structures, and risk management frameworks.
Without inclusive leadership capability at the executive level, organisations face visible systemic risks. Regulators, investors, boards, employees, and the public demand transparency and accountability. Australia's Respect@Work Positive Duty, WGEA reporting, and WHS psychosocial risk reforms impose personal due diligence and proactive management responsibilities on senior leaders.
This program equips senior leaders with strategic capabilities to embed inclusive leadership into governance, risk frameworks, talent management, and decision-making, not as a values statement, but as an operational discipline driving systemic change.
Concerns we hear
"Our executive team supports diversity and inclusion, yet their decisions don't fully reflect it."
"How do we engage leaders who see DEI as HR issues, not strategic priorities?"
"We've experienced executive programs that felt like repackaged manager training, not the strategic development our most senior leaders need."
Program snapshot
What you need to know at a glance.
Executive leadership teams, boards, C-suite leaders, and senior partners with organisational accountability and strategic influence.
How power, governance, and executive decisions shape culture, opportunity, and outcomes across the organisation.
This is not general inclusive leadership training adapted for senior audiences. It's a strategic, systemic program designed exclusively for the complexity, authority, and accountability of executive leadership: directly linked to governance, risk, talent, and organisational resilience. Facilitation is delivered at peer level, not as generic training.
Board governance and reporting, executive performance frameworks, talent and succession planning, organisational risk management, regulatory compliance (WHS, Positive Duty, WGEA).
ELT workshops, board briefings, and C-suite facilitation delivered in-person, live virtually, or in hybrid leadership environments across Australia and internationally. Also available as webinars, keynotes, or 90-minute workshops.
Endorsed capability partner
Trusted by Australia's peak HR body.
Culture Plus Consulting is proud to design and deliver flagship DEI programs for the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) (Australia's peak HR professional body), supporting HR leaders and practitioners to build capability for inclusive leadership and organisational change.
Connect with us to explore how evidence-based DEI training can help your organisation build capability, strengthen culture, and deliver meaningful, measurable change.
What this training covers
What this inclusive leadership training for senior executives and boards covers.
You know DEI matters. This program focuses on how senior leaders govern it. Participants develop greater insight into how leadership decisions shape organisational opportunity and outcomes, learn how unconscious bias can influence strategic decisions, and build capability to embed inclusion into strategic leadership decisions across talent management, investment priorities, organisational culture, and risk management.
Examine how executive decisions shape opportunity across the organisation. Understand how bias, including affinity and confirmation biases, can influence strategic decision-making in areas such as recruitment, succession planning, and investment priorities.
Explore how governance frameworks, reporting structures, and executive incentives influence organisational culture and behaviour, fostering psychological safety and promoting equity.
Analyse how organisational systems influence who gains access to opportunities and whose perspectives shape strategic outcomes, ensuring diverse perspectives and voices are valued.
Understand how executive behaviour, silence, or prioritisation shapes organisational norms and leadership culture, reinforcing or challenging the status quo.
Clarify the implications of WGEA reporting requirements, WHS psychosocial risk obligations, and the Respect@Work Positive Duty for executive DEI leadership and governance oversight.
What changes after this program
Real shifts that matter.
Executives gain greater awareness of how unconscious bias and structural barriers influence organisational decisions, enabling more deliberate and inclusive leadership practices. More voices that were previously sidelined will be heard in executive discussions and investment decisions.
Executive leaders who govern inclusion strategically
This program answers the key question "How do we ensure inclusion is embedded in executive decision-making, not just leadership messaging?"
Selected work
Trusted partners
Board & executive clients.
I thank Felicity Menzies for the initial training sessions and commend her on the job that she has done.
Our methodology
The Practical Capability Model
Every Culture Plus program is built on the same evidence-based methodology. Hover any step for detail:
Your facilitator
CEO, Author and Principal Consultant
Felicity Menzies
Every Culture Plus engagement is delivered with behavioural rigour and practical relevance by Felicity Menzies, organisational psychology specialist, author, and expert facilitator. Our extensive experience and resources support leaders to build self-awareness and develop inclusive leadership skills that drive systemic change.
- Role
- Founder, Culture Plus Consulting
- Qualification
- Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), University Medallist; Fellow, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand; Bachelor of Commerce; Advanced Accreditation, Cultural Intelligence; Oxford Saïd AI Governance, Compliance & Ethics; Certified AI Ethicist
- Experience
- 15+ years advising leading global and Australian private and government organisations; former senior executive in financial services and consulting
- Discipline
- Psychology, behavioural science & trauma-informed practice
- Published
- A World of Difference (2016); contributor to leading business and HR publications globally
- Recognition
- LinkedIn Top Voice; commendation in NSW Parliament
From the book
Culture is the sum of behaviours leaders permit, model, and reward.A World of Difference: Felicity Menzies →
Free guide
Need inclusive leadership training that drives real executive capability?
This guide outlines the essential conditions for effective inclusive leadership development, helping organisations move beyond awareness to strategic leadership capability that fosters organisational success and social impact.
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Questions about executive inclusive leadership, answered.
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This program focuses on governance, power, and strategic decision-making, not just team-level inclusion practices. It addresses how executive decisions shape culture, talent pipelines, and risk across the organisation. For people leaders, Culture Plus offers a separate dedicated program.
We frame inclusion as a governance and strategic responsibility, not a moral argument. This approach resonates with commercially-focused senior leaders who may be cautious rather than openly resistant and supports strategic alignment. Leaders are supported to understand where resistance is coming from and how to lead with clarity and consistency in the face of pushback.
Absolutely. It explicitly covers WGEA reporting obligations, WHS psychosocial risk obligations, the Respect@Work Positive Duty, and personal due diligence obligations for senior leaders.
Our principal facilitator operates as a peer: commercially astute, governance-aware, and experienced navigating the power dynamics and reputational sensitivities of senior leadership environments.
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Build inclusive leadership capability where it matters most
This isn't about leadership rhetoric.
It's about strengthening the capability that shapes organisational systems and outcomes. Develop executive leaders who embed inclusion into governance, strategy, and organisational performance.
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