Allyship & Belonging at Work

Leyya Sattar

Recording: YesLanguage: EnglishDuration: 45 min / 15 minSession rating: 3.9/5 from 40 participants
Allyship & Belonging at Work

Session Summary

Ever wondered how you can become a better ally and advocate for belonging in your workplace? Join us for an interactive session where you'll explore your privileges (we all have them!) through engaging exercises and receive practical actions on how to action inclusion in your day-to-day work.

You will:

Together, let's create a workplace culture that champions diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Don't miss out on this transformative opportunity to become a catalyst for positive change.

Interaction

During the expert session, Leyya Sattar engages the audience by discussing various identities under the LGBTQ+ umbrella term and encouraging them to expand their knowledge. She also distinguishes allyship from 'white knighting' and emphasizes the importance of listening to feedback and acknowledging mistakes in becoming an effective ally.

Leyya offers advice on creating inclusive workplaces, such as finding specific needs within the community and implementing employee resource groups. She also encourages participants to be mindful of language and microaggressions, create policies addressing exclusionary practices, and practice inclusivity year-round.

The Mentimeter app is used for interactive exercises throughout the session to encourage participation and application of the learnings in daily life.

Key Learnings

Recognizing Privilege and Its Impact

Identifying your place in various socio-economic and identity groups can help you understand how privilege impacts your experiences and interactions in society and the workplace.

Becoming an Effective Ally

Listening actively, educating yourself, using resources to support marginalized individuals, speaking up against discrimination, and practicing empathy are essential steps for being an effective ally.

Creating Inclusive Workplaces

Fostering a welcoming environment for all employees by addressing specific needs through employee resource groups, being mindful of language and microaggressions, and implementing inclusive policies and practices.

Detailed session description

In this session led by Leyya Sattar, the focus is on understanding privilege and using it effectively to create more inclusive workplaces. Leyya begins by guiding participants to recognize their own privileges—whether related to mental health, socioeconomic status, or education level—and how these aspects shape their experiences both in society and at work.

As the session unfolds, Leyya delves into the practical steps of becoming an effective ally. She emphasizes the importance of listening actively to marginalized voices, ensuring that their experiences are central in conversations about equity and inclusion.

She encourages participants to educate themselves on issues related to privilege and allyship, and to use their resources and networks to support marginalized individuals and communities.

Leyya also discusses the need to speak out against discrimination and microaggressions, urging participants to hold their privileged peers accountable for their actions. She advocates for donating time, money, or skills to organizations that support marginalized communities and stresses the importance of amplifying the voices of these communities through social media and other platforms.

The session also covers how to create inclusive workplaces for LGBTQ+ employees. Leyya explains the significance of using correct language and respecting individual identities, which she highlights as essential steps toward genuine allyship.

She warns against 'white knighting,' encouraging participants to listen to feedback, acknowledge mistakes, and strive for authentic support.

As the session draws to a close, Leyya offers practical advice on making workplaces more welcoming: identifying the specific needs of the LGBTQ+ community, establishing well-resourced employee groups, being mindful of language and microaggressions, and creating policies to address these issues and eliminate exclusionary practices.

Before you book

Questions about Allyship & Belonging at Work

Is this session interactive, or do people just watch?

It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.

Is this for beginners or for people who already know the subject?

Ever wondered how you can become a better ally and advocate for belonging in your workplace? Join us for an interactive session where you'll explore your privileges (we all have them!) through engaging exercises and receive practical actions on how to action inclusion in your day-to-day work. It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.

Is Leyya the right expert for this?

Leyya Sattar is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 3.9 out of 5, across 40 responses, and rate Leyya personally 4.3 out of 5.

How long does it take, and what do we have to prepare?

It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Leyya, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.

Who can join, and where does it run?

A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.

Can our global colleagues follow it?

The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.

Will our IT department have a problem with this?

No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.

How does this work under GDPR?

We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.

What do we get afterwards?

You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.

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