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National Session on Transforming Conflict Narratives

EqualVoice founder Michael Welp presented a session on Transforming Conflict Narratives at the National Organization Development Conference in Minneapolis November 2005. The proceeding is available for downloading here and the powerpoint can be downloaded here. The session was well attended and Welp was invited to repeat the session in July 2006 as a web seminar. He co-led that seminar with colleague Linda Houden and an archive of this 90 minute seminar is available here. The archive can be viewed through a web browser in flash with an audio recording of the presenters and a video of the PowerPoint and screen dialogue.

Three WMFDP Fieldguides

EqualVoice’s Michael Welp co-authored with Jo Ann Morris and Bill Proudman three fieldguides on leadership and diversity. These fieldguides are the result of their continuing work as founding partners of White Men as Full Diversity Partners. The books are available through the web here.

Eight Critical Leadership Skills Created through Effective Diversity Partnerships

The secret is out: While there’s no shortage of business leadership programs to sign up for, they may not be the best places to build the complex skills you need to effectively lead in today’s complex workplaces. This landmark field guide brings the most sought-after talents right to your doorstep. You’ll learn how real leadership is best cultivated: by working with the diverse people around you. As you read and reflect on the thought-provoking questions and do the activities described, you’ll boost your ability to lead — and improve your organization’s business results.

Diversity Partnership Tips for White Men

At last, a book that puts the invisible partners
of diversity — white men — in the spotlight. This
paradigm-busting field guide invites white men
to step out of the shadows and fully join their organizations’ diversity efforts. Because, contrary to popular belief, their engagement is critical to the success of any serious diversity initiative. Only when white men form vital partnerships with other white men, white women and people of color can organizations move from mere pro forma head count increases to a genuinely new, inclusive culture.

Diversity Partnership Tips for White Women and People of Color to Engage White Men

Open this book, open your mind, and climb out of your box. This field guide tackles workplace diversity with startling candor and delivers refreshingly practical solutions for individuals and groups. You’ll encounter provocative questions that stretch your thinking and lead to surprising new insights about the assumptions that drive your behavior.

ORDER ONLINE at www.wmfdp.com/store

Other Recent articles by Michael Welp

"White Men as Advocates for Diversity." The Diversity Factor. Vol. 12 No. 2. Spring 2004.

“Vanilla Voices: Researching White Men’s Diversity Learning Journeys.” American Behavior Scientist, Special Issue on Researching Across Difference. Vol. 45 No. 8. April 2002.