Diversity and Inclusion Training

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Enhance diversity and inclusion within your organization

We are a leader in inclusivity training and will help you create a culture of equity and collaboration in your organization based on our nearly 50 years of experience working with and empowering newcomers to British Columbia.

We have experience offering these services in-person, on-site, and virtually to public and private sector organizations in British Columbia and throughout Canada. We help your business or organization create inclusive and equitable spaces.

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The Diversity Dividend

“Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.”

Effective diversity and inclusion strategies help organizations advance their goals.

In fact, more diverse organizations:

Are more likely to outperform their peers
Are twice as likely to meet or exceed their financial targets
Are 70% more likely to capture new markets than those that neglect to actively recruit and support under-represented groups
Promote innovation, generating fresh insights, new ideas and creative solutions
Increase employee satisfaction, engagement, fostering loyalty, retention, and productivity
Attract the best and brightest talent, overcome skill gaps, and draw on the full talents of their people

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Gain the MOSAIC Advantage

Join the MOSAIC Family

Help us unlock the potential of your workforce!

45 years of empowering newcomers to Vancouver and British Columbia
The experience providing services that support your diverse workforce.
38 unique language, employment, and settlement services offered from convenient locations across the Lower Mainland

Customized Workshops

Every individual and every workplace is unique. That’s why our curriculum is never the same from workshop to workshop.

Uniquely adapted content using a comprehensive needs assessment filled in by participants.
Address topics and activity types that respond directly to the needs and challenges of each of our participants.

We meet you where you are on your Diversity Journey!

Flexible Delivery

We know your busy schedule may leave little time, so let us adapt our training to meet your needs. We can conduct workshops in a way that suits your schedule:

Full, intensive three-hour format
Shorter, condensed two-hour formats
Informative and accessible webinars
A series of one-hour ‘Lunch and Learns’

Learn With Amazing Facilitators

Our skilled and experienced facilitation team draws vast experience from across MOSAIC’s many programs.

From settlement workers to employment counselors, our team represents the beautiful diversity that MOSAIC possesses.
All are certified as Intercultural Facilitators by Norquest College.
Our facilitators bring the skills, experience, empathy and compassion to provide a meaningful and transformational education experience for your staff.

Ongoing Support

We support our clients throughout their Diversity journey. This support can take many forms.

Often hot-button topics are identified during the workshops that require further discussion and customized workshops to work through.
At other times, individual employees might need extra support to work through challenges specific to their own workplace situation.
Our commitment to our clients is that we support them wherever their path to diversity takes them.

Where are you on your Diversity Journey?

Embracing Diversity is not a switch that you can turn on or off. It is rather a journey along a windy path that takes time, patience and a lot of effort. We are here to support you wherever you are on that path!

First Steps Support – The basics, tools and strategies to create inclusive spaces

Mid-journey Support – If your team has put in the effort to educate yourself on diversity and inclusion topics our specialized workshops will give you the tools to approach specific challenges

Full Journey Support – If your team needs support to initiate and carry through a full lifecycle diversity and inclusion program we can help.

First Steps Support

Introduction to Inclusive Fluency

A foundational workshop where participants without prior intercultural training explore core concepts. Participants learn to better navigate intercultural situations in diverse workplaces by cultivating awareness of their own and others’ cultural backgrounds and using strategies for dealing respectfully with intercultural situations.

Introduction to Inclusive Leadership

Combines diversity and inclusion training with intercultural management skills. Participants learn the core concepts of diversity and inclusion while applying them to team building using practical, real world scenarios. Participants will leave this workshop with all of the knowledge, tools and strategies to go beyond diversity and build a truly inclusive team.

Mid-Journey Support

Inclusive Hiring

For teams that possess a base knowledge of inclusion concepts. This workshops focuses on more advanced topics, such as unconscious bias, to ensure that your recruitment team has the skills and awareness to recruit, train and retain a diverse and productive workforce. With the skills gained in this workshop you will truly have the ability to realize the diversity dividend.

Building an Inclusive Team

Following from the concepts explored in Introduction to Inclusive Leadership, this “part two” of our Inclusive Leadership Program looks into how to build your team from an anti-bias and anti-racism perspective. We will explore not only culture but specific policies, procedures, and strategies that can promote inclusive workplaces and truly realize the diversity dividend.

Inclusive Workplace

Also for teams that possess a base knowledge this workshop series focuses on how to apply advanced D&I concepts such as microaggressions and systemic racism to address everyday workplace situations. We delve into conflict resolution, professional behavior and communication from a D&I perspective. We will give your staff the tools to build an inclusive culture together.

Diversity for the ______ Field

Every workplace is unique, every industry and field manifests different challenges specific to that concept. We have adapted workshops for the Settlement, Healthcare, and Educational world. Our adaptive needs assessment based curriculum allow us to modify our activities, scenarios and concepts taught to meet the unique challenges that each field demonstrates.

Full Journey Support

Diversity Audit

Our skilled facilitators will guide your organization through a comprehensive audit of your culture, practices and procedures. Based upon the results of this audit we craft target workshops, webinars, and policy round-tables designed to build internal capacity. We will guide you through structural, cultural and strategic changes that will build a truly inclusive organization.

Diversity Check-Up

Do you need to get the pulse of how inclusive and equitable your organization is? Our diversity check-up offers you a mix of workshops and webinars for your team and leadership that will give you unique insight into how your team feels and what the challenges they face. We will use this qualitative and quantitative data to jointly create an inclusion and diversity action plan.

Meet our Team

Hamidullah Abawi (He, Him)

Senior Manager Center for Diversity

Hamidullah Abawi is a dedicated leader whose personal journey from Afghanistan to Canada fuels his passion for equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). His extensive leadership and humanitarian program management experience has shaped his impactful work at MOSAIC.

Abawi’s career began in Afghanistan, where he served as Senior Advisor, Education in Emergencies to the Minister of Education. He championed women’s rights, advocated for equal pay and education for girls, and implemented policies to address gender disparities, ensuring fair treatment and opportunities for female teachers. As Country Director for Street Child UK, he led a diverse team across Afghanistan’s provinces, delivering essential services to over 300,000 people. His advocacy reached international platforms, including the UN General Assembly in New York, the 3rd Safe Schools Conference in Spain, and UNHQ in Geneva, where he emphasized the importance of embedding EDI in education and humanitarian affairs.

Abawi joined MOSAIC in 2022 as the Manager of the Metro Vancouver Refugee Readiness Fund, where he facilitated cross-organizational engagements, ensuring marginalized groups were represented in program development and resource allocation, and strengthened grassroots organizations’ capacity. He then became the Project Manager for the establishment of the MOSAIC Community Clinic and subsequently the Senior Manager for the Centre for Diversity.

Abawi holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the American University in Dubai. He is fluent in multiple languages, including English, Pashto, Dari, Hindi, Urdu, and Persian.

Abawi is dedicated to integrating Truth and Reconciliation principles into his work, and believes that true equity and inclusion go beyond words, driving real change through measurable outcomes. When not at work, Abawi enjoys hiking, traveling, and spending time with family and friends.

Valeria Alcaraz (She, They)

Instructional Developer

Valeria has more than six years of experience in the field of Social Justice. Her background in research and teaching informs her current work on Anti-Racism and Equity education. She is an educational content developer, facilitator, and consultant who has worked with governmental and private institutions in Canada, United States and Mexico. She has previously worked for the Equity Office at the City of Vancouver and the Social Justice Institute at UBC. Valeria holds a Master of Arts in Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice (University of British Columbia, 2022).

Payvand Gonzalez (She, Her)

DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE AND CULTURE

Payvand Gonzalez has a diverse professional background as a strategic, community-oriented HR leader. She brings with her 15 years of progressive HR experience in people, program, policy and change management, workforce development, support services, labour relations and HR operations. As an HR executive and partner, she has developed and implemented people and culture strategies at leading organizations, start-ups and global companies on policy, procedure, inclusive practices, and HR systems.

Payvand’s passions started in youth and community programming, combined with the identities she occupies as an intersectional feminist and Iranian, have formed and continues to influence her professional philosophy of holistic HR. Intertwining the lived and personal experiences and perspectives of the teams she supports into collaborative and open working spaces has been at the centre of her career.

Her educational background is in psychology, where she studied counselling and human development at Simon Fraser University. She whole-heartedly believes that one can never learn enough and went on to study ethics at BCIT as well as human resources management and organizational development at SFU.

In building her people and culture portfolio, Payvand also travelled internationally working and researching with different community organizations in the US, South America and the Caribbean to broaden her scope and applied perspectives in diverse methodologies and practices of leadership, community development and the intersection of supporting diverse communities at home.

Sara Qureshi (She, Her)

Coordinator

Sara graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in Political Science, Law, and Sociology in 2021. She has since worked in the Legal, Educational, and Social Justice space in various capacities. In addition to her educational and professional background her lived experience informs her Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion work. As a Coordinator at MOSAIC she is passionate about supporting the work that the team does to help create more inclusive and equitable spaces for all.