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Rescheduled from October

Presented by Linda Jenkins, Owner, Jenkins Consulting Group

Many leaders are striving to create dynamic inclusive organizations that maximize innovation, creativity, productivity, engagement, and relationships to effectively serve their constituents. These leaders create and adapt systems that promote fairness and equitable treatment, and foster environments where diverse perspectives are heard, recognized, and acted upon. They are using unconscious bias training to help their employees and volunteers become fully engaged in supporting and sustaining their efforts. This workshop will introduce participants to unconscious bias and its impact on decision-making in the workplace; tools to identify their individual unconscious biases; and five strategies they can use to disrupt their unconscious biases. This session should particularly benefit leaders working to create organizations that maximize innovation, creativity, productivity, engagement, and relationships. 

By participating in Five (5) Strategies for Disrupting Your Unconscious Biases, participants will:

• Learn the definition of and characteristics of unconscious bias
• Explore tools to identify their individual unconscious biases
• Learn five (5) strategies they can use to disrupt their unconscious biases
• Realize and accept we all have unconscious biases
• Build awareness of your unconscious biases
• Practice Individuation vs. categorization
• Practice perspective taking
• Practice counter-stereotyping

Linda Jenkins provides organization leaders with consultation, resources, and training to govern and manage ethically, effectively, and inclusively. Her services provide leaders with practical strategic approaches to achieving their missions.

Linda's customized services include nonprofit board performance assessment, strategic planning, and unconscious bias training. She provides her services in-person and virtually. She has owned her own company - Jenkins Consulting Group (JCG) - for sixteen years. JCG has successfully completed 87 projects for 69 organizations.

In 2012, Linda became one of the first BoardSource Certified Governance Consultants®. She became certified to facilitate managing unconscious bias workshops in 2019. Her services encompass current trends in nonprofit governance and evidence-based practices for disrupting unconscious bias and fostering inclusive workplaces.

Before establishing JCG in 2007, Linda honed her professional skills through positions with the City of Long Beach, the City of Tulsa, and the Tulsa Area United Way.  Linda holds degrees from Princeton University and the University of Texas at Austin.

Since 2017, Linda has served as a District 1 Representative on the City of Tulsa’s Sales Tax Overview Committee. Previously, she served on the governing boards for YWCA WomenShelter (Long Beach, CA), Youth Services of Tulsa, Friends of the Tulsa City-County Libraries, and Association for Talent Development (ATD) – Tulsa Chapter.

Linda is an avid women's basketball fan. She loves to watch and attend NCAA and WNBA games. She has traveled to twelve Women’s Final Four championships.