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How Allies Can Create a More Inclusive and High-Functioning Workplace Environment

Move beyond performative support and use your professional privilege to dismantle hidden barriers and drive systemic equity.

Created byKathleen Nalty
BeginnerUpdated May 18, 2026
How Allies Can Create a More Inclusive and High-Functioning Workplace Environment

What You'll Learn

check_circleIdentify the ten common hidden barriers that limit access to key career opportunities in professional organizations.
check_circleAnalyze your own social identities to recognize areas of privilege and potential influence.
check_circleApply the allyship maturity model to transition from performative support to active advocacy.
check_circleImplement specific bias-interrupters to create more equitable processes for networking, work assignments, and promotions.

About This Course

To create inclusive, welcoming, and healthy workplaces, organizations need more people to step up and function as allies, particularly with respect to people in social identity groups at higher risk for exclusion. Attend this workshop to learn more about why it is important that colleagues act more intentionally by taking on these roles in their organizations and specific actions allies can engage in to foster greater inclusion and belonging.

Topics included in this presentation:

  • Allies educate themselves about the hidden barriers that disproportionately impact access to career opportunities for people in marginalized groups
  • Misperceptions on allyship cause people in majority groups to think they are acting as an ally
  • What social identities convey greater or lesser advantages in the workplace
  • Allies can open doors if they leverage their privilege
  • How allies can level up and improve their allyship

Your Instructor

Kathleen Nalty
Kathleen Nalty

Award-Winning Diversity, Equity & Inclusiveness Consultant | Fortune 100 DEI Training Specializing in Unconscious Bias Education

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Kathleen Nalty is a lawyer, author, and expert in diversity, equity, and inclusion. She works as a consultant with a wide variety of organizations, including law firms, corporations, nonprofits, and government organizations across the U.S. and Canada. In 2015, she published a “how to” book for law firm leaders entitled Going “All-In” on Diversity and Inclusion: The Law Firm Leader’s Playbook that includes new tools for advancing diversity and inclusion. In April 2017, Kathleen was invited to give a TEDx talk – Diversity Makes You Smarter – at the University of Colorado. Kathleen founded the Center for Legal Inclusiveness (CLI) in Denver, Colorado in 2007 and led the nonprofit as its Executive Director through January 2013. In this role, Kathleen developed the only “how to” manual for legal organizations with a comprehensive step-by-step process for removing hidden barriers to retention and creating an inclusive workplace. In 2012, Kathleen led 10 half-day training sessions across the U.S. on diversity and inclusion for the Minority Corporate Counsel Association as part of its new Academy for Diversity & Inclusion. Kathleen also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law School from 2012-2018, where she taught a course on diversity and inclusion. Kathleen earned a B.A. from the University of Denver and a J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School. After law school, she was selected to participate in the Attorney General’s Honors Program at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. As a federal civil rights prosecutor in the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division, Kathleen worked on cases involving hate crimes, police brutality, and slavery. Kathleen has earned 12 awards for her thought leadership and advocacy in DEI and social justice. To learn more about Kathleen, visit www.kathleennaltyconsulting.com.

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