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This interactive workshop, meant for nonprofit board members and Executive Directors, will take participants through an exercise through lens of Empathy Centered Design. The aim is to analyze the user experiences of leaders from nondominant identities and identify barriers and failure points that prevent them from serving at their highest potential. You will learn how principles and methods from product design can be applied to nonprofit board experience design, with a specific focus on racial equity practices.
By the end of the session, you will gain a better understanding of Empathy Centered Design, be equipped to use Journey Maps as a survey and feedback tool to improve the board life cycle, and review recruitment and retention practices to attract and retain historically disenfranchised groups.
Speakers:
Ei Ei Samai is the founder of BRAVE New Us, which grows belonging, resilience, agility, vision, and empathy in organizations through a dynamic combination of consulting, coaching, facilitating, and training. Her skill-building as a mindful facilitator began when she learned Vipassana (Vi-PA-sa-na) insight meditation as a 4 year old. She was introduced to diversity, inclusion, and equity work as a working class immigrant teen at a Silicon Valley High School in the 90s, and the thread continued throughout her education and career. She currently describes her work as culture design, which involves examining, healing, and reimagining inner, interpersonal, and institutional relationships.
In addition to holding a Master of Science in Organizational Management and Transformative Leadership, she is certified in advanced facilitation, experiential training, community mediation, conflict transformation, restorative justice, ecological model of leadership, regenerative human systems design, and in Neuroscience of Conversations® by the late Judith Glaser. In 2019, Ei Ei was chosen as a Courage Catalyst in Brené Brown's Dare to Lead™ Facilitator Training.
With over 20 years of experience in social impact, Ei Ei brings grounded expertise in shaping bold conversations in areas such as educational equity, social and environmental justice, trust architecture, collective impact, strategy planning, program and service design, family and community engagement, collaborative partnerships, knowledge management, and organizational culture.
She has lived, studied, or traveled in 6 continents and identifies as a global citizen. As a mom of two, her primary professional mission is to make the world a safer, kinder, fairer place for all children through her contributions.
Irma is the founder of The Z Bridge, a boutique firm specializing in leadership, diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies. Irma has over 20 years of experience designing and implementing methodologies with cross functional/multicultural teams to work better together. She partners with social impact organizations, including nonprofits and government agencies, to advance DEI and cultural awareness. Irma has a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering, and an MBA focused on Business Strategy from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain. She is an active community member in the San Francisco Bay Area.
SVCN and Thrive Alliance strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. To request accommodation, interpretation, and translation services, and/or for inquiries about accessibility, please email Marvah Gorlorwulu at [email protected]
SVCN is committed to making our trainings and webinars accessible to nonprofit employees who have been underrepresented in nonprofit leadership and management roles. Scholarships range from 10% to 100% of the summit fee. Apply for a scholarship.
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