DEI 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 programme 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 programmes. 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 programme 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 programmes that felt like repackaged manager training — not the strategic development our most senior leaders need."
Programme 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.
Endorsed capability partner
Trusted by Australia's peak HR body.
Culture Plus Consulting is proud to design and deliver flagship DEI programmes 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 programme 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.
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 programme answers the key question "How do we ensure inclusion is embedded in executive decision-making, not just leadership messaging?"
Our methodology
The Practical Capability Model
Every Culture Plus programme 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 psychologist, author, and specialist 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 Commerce; Bachelor of Arts (Psych) — University Medallist; Fellow, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
- Experience
- 15+ years advising leading global and Australian private and government organisations; former senior executive in financial services and consulting
- Discipline
- Organisational 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 programme 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 programme.
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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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