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AV Club

Curated resources, combined with a series of facilitated conversations, that foster inclusivity and belonging.

The AV Club focuses on equal treatment, equal opportunity, and equal access.​

Engaging Conversations that Promote Inclusive Workplaces

Building a culture of inclusivity and belonging in your organization is a journey that requires long-term commitment and a continuous openness to learning. Training can be helpful, but research in organizational science shows that one-time events are not enough to create lasting change in mindsets or behaviors. 

Leveraging research and science, Diversity Lab designed the AV Club to incorporate learning through empathy and proximity. This dynamic learning framework  — structured around curated content — creates opportunities for participants to learn and then exchange perspectives and experiences, raising awareness and fostering a sense of belonging.

Purpose

Process

The AV Club provides an opportunity for hybrid or distributed workplaces to bring teams together regularly for meaningful connection.

The AV Club is usually facilitated within law firms and legal departments as a 6-9 month group learning and engagement experience. Participants listen to and view the resources before each monthly session. The resources include a mix of podcasts and videos, carefully selected to present a variety of impactful perspectives with relevance to the legal field.

Each one-hour session starts with participants convening for an overview of the month’s key learnings. Next, they break into smaller groups facilitated by experts to engage in insightful discussion and sharing. After the breakouts, the entire group reconvenes to share key takeaways and a-ha moments collectively. This process helps to lock in learning and reinforce the community’s connectedness. Following the 6-9 month sessions, the group concludes with a “momentum session” where the participants share how they plan to leverage what they learned in their workplace and team going forwar

Diversity Lab provides resources, facilitator training, a program outline, and tailored discussion questions for each AV Club meeting.

Step 1

Curated resources are shared ahead of the scheduled conversation.

Step 2

An organizational leader kicks off the meeting sharing brief thoughts on the material. Participants break out into small groups with trained facilitators to ensure everyone has a chance to voice their thoughts and experiences.

Step 3

Participants then reconvene as a larger group to share key takeaways across groups in a facilitated “Pearls of Wisdom” conclusion.

Step 4

Proof

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Our department has had more profound and meaningful conversations with their colleagues and developed a shared language around essential topics such as allyship actions, authenticity in the workplace, and identifying microaggressions as a direct result of implementing Diversity Lab’s AV Club. We view inclusive leadership as a core competency for our team, and these sessions are in furtherance of that ambition.

—Morgan King, Chief of Staff, Head of US Legal Strategy & Organizational Development, Takeda Pharmaceuticals

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