Inclusive leadership development for engineers

Abstract

This article presents a standards-aligned, strategydriven leadership development model for equipping engineering students with skills to appreciate differences in the workplace and to collaborate and lead inclusively.

Performing in diverse settings: A diversity, equity, and inclusion approach to culture

“…All these strategies can play a crucial role in improving an organization’s productivity. The steps to follow a DEI approach can be broken down into introspection, education, and action (Pollock et al, 2022). The DEI approach is beneficial to organizations that seek to help their employees navigate diverse settings (e.g., culturally, linguistically, ideologically, racially, sexually, and others) as it provides a transformational platform to think beyond knowledge, skills, and abilities and promotes a focus on the organizational context, climate, and action .…”

“…Other domains have used the DEI approach with success, including in data visualization (Schwabish and Feng, 2020), information literacy (Heffernan, 2020), engineering education (Pollock et al, 2022), nutrition (Mensch and Souza, 2021), as well as wellness, burnout, and recovery (Knight, 2022). It is only logical that we take this approach to a performance-based construct as CCP, where we encourage others to go beyond the awareness of their biases and actually change their behavior to integrate dissimilar others into the conversation (e.g., Tate and Page, 2018; Dobbin and Kalev, 2018).…”

The unseen work of establishing engineering leadership development initiatives

“…True inclusivity is more than increasing the number of students from underserved populations; it involves ensuring every individual has a safe space where their ideas and skills can flourish, and they can be fully engaged. EL programs have an opportunity to prepare students for professional positions where DEI practices are expected, regardless of its role in the university culture (Pollock & Leggett‐Robinson, 2022).…”

Developing Inclusive Leadership Training for Undergraduate Engineering Teaching Assistants

“…We adapt the Stern Cohort Leadership Program framework for inclusive leadership, defined as, "the practice of leadership that carefully includes the identities, experiences, knowledge, perspectives, and contributions of all community members" [13]. The framework aligns with the engineering inclusive leadership development model by Pollack et al, where we focus on (1) an understanding of social positionality, (2) development of a GIDBEA lens, (3) the establishment of GIDBEA practices within our program and finally, (4) the realization of inclusive communication and collaboration [14][15][16]. We seek to empower our UGTAs to become inclusive peer mentors for first-year students.…”