Equity in the C-Suite - Rising Communities

Through a grant from the Community Benefit Giving Office, Cedars-Sinai has been supporting the launch of our new signature initiative called Equity in the C-Suite. Equity in the C-Suite aims to catalyze social change through the development of a validated self-assessment tool that will help organizations measure how inclusive they are. This tool is critical to improving the social sector’s approach to JEDI culture transformation in the field of organizational development and change. Learning For Equity is proud to add this initiative to our Learning for EquityTM suite of curriculum and capacity strengthening services.

Who is eligible to participate?
This initiative is open to individuals that work within entry-level to mid-upper management roles in nonprofit organizations spanning the state of California.

What will the interview look like?
Participants will partake in a 60 minute interview where they will be asked questions related to their experience working within the nonprofit sector as it pertains to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI), as well as successful and unsuccessful stories of JEDI principles at play within the workplace. All data collected during the interview will be confidential and any identifiable data will be transformed into generic anonymous identifiers.

For more information about this program, please contact any member of the Learning for equity team, or email l4e@risingcommunities.org

Equity in the C-Suite (PDF)

Michelle Burton

Michelle Burton, MBA, MALC, PhD is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Community Health Councils (CHC). In 1992 at the age 16, Michelle started her career in activism following the Los Angeles Riots. Working with Rebuild LA, and Reverend Cecil Murray, she was recruited as a motivational speaker and spokesperson, participating in nationally televised town hall meetings. Later, she joined Peace Action, a lobbying organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leading activists. Michelle is passionate about building bridges across sectors to design bold solutions for problems today and in the future. She is currently co-designing and delivering leadership and capacity building curriculum, Learning for Equity, for community based organizations and resident community leaders in partnership with foundations and academic institutions throughout Southern California.

Tony Lingham

Tony Lingham’s teaching and research interests are leadership assessment and development, experiential learning theory, learning flexibility, research methods, executive coaching and team learning and development. His research work centers on team learning and development in the US, Canada, and Europe using the Team Learning and Development Inventory (TLI) that he developed in 2005. Prior to his academic life, Tony was the Principal Staff Officer (Logistics) in the Singapore Military with 14 secondary appointments, managing 250 personnel and a $1M budget where he won several awards for high performance. As an engaged scholar, he has been an organization, team and leadership consultant for over 10 years working with managers and leaders in multinational companies across the US, Europe, Africa and Asia both in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. The focus of his coaching and consulting work ranges from organizational and team to individual levels. Currently, Tony has leveraged his wealth of experience in helping to develop the equity in the c-suite assessment tool to address and operationalize equity within organizations.