Courageous Civility with Shola Richards

The first 200 faculty and staff who register/RSVP will receive a free copy of , Shola's new book.

Best-selling author Shola Richards, founder and CEO of Go Together Global, is leading a worldwide movement to change the world based on how we treat each other at work. He has shared his transformative message with Fortune 50 companies, top universities, leading healthcare organizations, Silicon Valley, the motion picture industry, on the TEDx stage, and with Congress.

At this event, Richards will share insights from his three books—Go Together, Making Work Work, and Civil Unity—and provide the audience with tools, strategies, and information necessary to create a culture of equity, diversity, and belonging.

This keynote is ideal for individual contributors, leaders, and teams who are:

• Ready to create a culture of equity, diversity and belonging, but don’t know where to begin.
• Concerned about the current climate of divisiveness in America, and its impact on marginalized communities’ mental health, safety and overall well-being.
• Unaware of how to effectively engage in difficult conversations with colleagues and others about bias and inequities.

The audience will leave with:

• Strategies to recognize bias, prejudice, and/or microaggressions in the workplace, and how to address it immediately and strategically.
• Powerful data that shows that diverse teams are better at making decisions, more attractive to potential clients, consistently outperform competitors (and more!)
• The education and the inspiration to stay committed to the ongoing work of equity, diversity and belonging.

More about Shola

Shola Richards is an in-demand workplace civility expert and a prolific writer with a passionate worldwide following. His articles and wildly popular Monday morning "Go Together Movement" email series have impacted people in more than 160 countries, and his work has been featured on the Today Show, CBS This Morning, Forbes, Black Enterprise, Complete Wellbeing India, Business Insider Australia, and in numerous other outlets all over the world who recognize him as an authority on workplace happiness and engagement.

He is also a father, husband, identical twin, and a self-professed “kindness extremist,” who says he will not rest until bullying and incivility are extinct from the American workplace.

Event sponsored by the Lundquist College of Business, School of Journalism and Communication, College of Design, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Law, School of Music and Dance, Clark Honors College, and the Central Business Services Office (Office of the Provost).

Host or Publisher UO Lundquist College of Business