Gabby Zuniga, MIR, CHRL
Co-Founder, Belonging Works
Gabby Zuniga is the founder of Inclusive Kind and Belonging Works. She helps organizations build more inclusive cultures through practical strategies
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Certificate program
Practicing Inclusive Leadership
Understanding and applying the six inclusive leadership traits.
Program overview
What this program is.
The Practicing Inclusive Leadership Certificate helps leaders develop a clear, practical understanding of what inclusive leadership is and what it requires in action. Research has identified six inclusive leadership traits that foster belonging, fairness, and strong performance. This program brings those traits to life in everyday leadership practice. Through facilitated learning and applied discussion, participants explore each of the six traits and examine how they show up in meetings, feedback, decision-making, and talent processes. The focus is on recognizing patterns that unintentionally exclude and building consistent, observable leadership behaviours that support inclusion. Delivered over three interactive sessions, the certificate provides structured time to deepen understanding, practice application, and strengthen leadership habits that support inclusive and high-performing teams.
Learning outcomes
What you will be able to do.
- Name the six inclusive leadership traits and recognise them in your own day to day practice
- Spot the leadership behaviours that signal belonging and the ones that quietly undermine it
- Run one-on-ones and team meetings in a way that surfaces dissent and protects the people who raise it
- Make hiring, promotion, and pay decisions you can explain to the person on the other side of the outcome
- Have hard conversations about exclusionary behaviour without freezing or escalating
- Choose two or three changes you can ship in the first thirty days after the program ends
What's included
Everything you get.
- Three live two-hour sessions with Gabby Zuniga and Erin Walker
- Practitioner workbook with self-assessments, conversation scripts, and decision-making frameworks
- Cohort discussion forum for the duration of the program
- Personalised certificate of completion with a public verification URL
- Add-to-LinkedIn credential for your profile
Who it's for
Built for practitioners.
- First-time and experienced people managers who want a working model of inclusive leadership
- Directors and VPs who set the climate for their function
- Executives who want to lead a more inclusive organisation and need the same vocabulary as their HR partners
- Anyone who has done unconscious bias training and is wondering what comes next
Your instructors
Taught by practitioners who do this work.
Erin Walker
Consulting Manager, Inclusive Kind
A dynamic, outgoing, well-spoken self-starter with a background in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) and Learning & Development (L&D)