Authentic Diversity: How to Build an Inclusive Workplace with Michelle Silverthorn

Our world has changed. The moment is here for real progress on diversity and inclusion, to take the transformed workplace and the transformed globe and create a new paradigm for equity and justice. The calls are loud. Are you ready to answer them?

Join Michelle Silverthorn in an engaging, interactive virtual program that will shift your understanding on the challenges for inclusion in the workplace, and take up her call to action for every individual to build spaces of authentic diversity for all. 

During the program, you’ll develop a deeper understanding of:

• The central role unconscious bias and its attendant challenges, microaggressions, and stereotypes, play in interrupting our journey to inclusion.
• 10 rules to make inclusion a reality for everyone in an organization.
• How to design spaces of authenticity and belonging, where everyone is welcome to rise, thrive, and succeed.

This program is open to legal professionals at TCDIP Member Organizations. TCDIP will apply for CLE credit in Minnesota. 

About Michelle Silverthorn:

Michelle Silverthorn believes that diversity and inclusion needs a new voice for a new generation. A recognized expert in organizational inclusion, Michelle has worked with Fortune 500 companies, tech start-ups, non-profit organizations, universities, and numerous companies across every industry. From thousand person conferences to twenty-person workshops, Michelle equips all of her audiences with the knowledge and skills to finally move forward on diversity and inclusion. A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Michigan Law School, Michelle practiced for two large law firms in New York and Chicago. She then transitioned into the education field where she trained thousands in-person and online. Michelle has been featured on NPR, PBS and in several publications including the Chicago Tribune and Fortune Magazine. She is a TEDx speaker and the author of the bestselling book, Authentic Diversity, How to Change the Workplace For Good. Michelle previously worked as an arts and entertainment journalist in Trinidad and Tobago, a researcher in Puno, Peru and Geneva, Switzerland, and a volunteer teacher in Gaborone, Botswana and Almaty, Kazakhstan. Michelle grew up in the Caribbean and now lives in Chicago with her husband Daniel and their two daughters.