Desa Global Leadership (DGL) is a boutique DEI consulting and leadership training firm with clients on every continent. They are on a mission to inspire and empower women and underrepresented minorities to hone their skills, so they feel engaged and get promoted by offering fully tailored live training solutions. They specialize in developing and delivering DEI consulting and leadership training with a DEI lens for Fortune 500 companies.
The secret to Desa Global Leadership’s success lies in building a world-class team that each has their own diversity story, systematizing soft skills, and providing actionable tools so attendees can take action immediately. They give women and underrepresented minorities the leadership skills they need to succeed in today’s global marketplace by customizing material for each organization. They have worked with more than 10,000 clients to date from various sectors, including Google, Intel, Canada Life, American Express, Calvin Klein, and Yale University, to create solutions specifically suited to their needs in terms of DEI and leadership development.
Impact Building by Desa Global Leadership
Desa Global Leadership offers a range of leadership workshops and development programs. Their modules are engaging and practical, so staff members leave prepared and motivated to act immediately. The company provides employees with the necessary tools to change business culture and raise engagement. Their modules are interactive, giving participants the time to practice crucial leadership skills, like Influencing, Prioritization, Allyship, Communication and Inclusivity so they can immediately see results in their careers. Some of the points of action include:
- Believing in the power of possibility – Desa Global Leadership helps people venture outside of their comfort zones by creating a psychologically safe space to explore DEI concepts that can cause discomfort. Finding points of commonality and normalizing the awkwardness, they help participants move past the discomfort and feel empowered to act.
- Provoke change – DGL firmly believes in the ability of heartfelt storytelling to unite people, forge alliances, and influence conduct. Sharing stories helps us to feel seen and heard, finding a commonality that reveals the possibility of change with the actionable tools to bring it about.
- Taking risks and encouraging others too – They support the idea of taking chances, moving past mistakes, dancing in the present, and infusing everything with a spirit of adventure.
- The power of owning your value – DGL believes that everyone can make the most of their talents by confidently showcasing who they are and linking it to why it matters.
Influencing Effectively and Easily
Through strategy, training, and shared experience, Desa Global Leadership can help your company create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace that will help recruit and retain employees whose varied experiences improve the bottom line and the quality of the solutions you provide to your clients.
The DGL programs are perfect for team off-sites, career development days, leadership development programs and ERG (Employee Resource Group) activities and include:
- Communicating with Vision: Leading People & Teams
- Discover the importance of active listening and communicating vision as an essential part of leading teams. Gain tools to respond vs react as a people leader and process real-time information.
- Utilize sponsorship to advance your career
- Empowers professionals to create advocates and leverage sponsors to get to the next level of leadership. Gain clarity on benefits of a sponsorship relationship and how to sustain momentum over time.
- Ruthless Prioritization: Getting More Done with Less
- Maximize your impact by discovering systems to prioritize your work and communicate your value. Learn tools and tactics to identify your highest priorities and build sustainable habits.
- Building a Culture of Feedback
- Equips leaders with simple, powerful, and effective feedback tools. Doing so will inspire them to give focused, productive and inclusive feedback in a variety of workplace contexts.
- Becoming an Inclusive Leader and Ally
- Understand the practical aspects of allyship to increase inclusion and belonging at work and in life. Walk away with actionable ways to be an ally in the workplace.
For their tremendous work in inspiring and activating leadership training and DE&I consultation, Desa Global has earned a name for itself in the Canadian business world. Desa Global was a finalist at the CanadianSME National Business Awards, 2022, which was held on May 5th, 2023, at the prestigious Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
To learn more about their programs and services, visit their website at https://desagloballeadership.com/
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