Authentic Conversations: Navigating Transgender Expansive (TGX) Inclusion in the Workplace
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The purpose of 'Authentic Conversations: Navigating Transgender and Non-Binary Inclusion in the Workplace' session is to provide a safe environment for discussions on 1. How to be an inclusive leader as it relates to trans awareness and inclusion; 2. Methods for emerging professionals to navigate ensuring an inclusive culture for Transgender Expansive (TGX) employees.
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding of the Transgender experience based on facilitator's lived experiences.
- Understanding of how leaning into leadership vulnerability (as it relates to the Transgender expansive (TGX) experience) 'augments and transforms' the organizational environment and creates a trans inclusive and trans friendly workspace.
- Understanding of how leadership teams in collaboration with human resource professionals can navigate the TGX experience by integrating TGX inclusion initiatives into the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging space.
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Elijah Nicholas
Twelve-time published author, Dr. Elijah Nicholas is an Author, Actor, and Advocate. Assigned the female sex at birth, Elijah spent almost half of his life in the US Military, as a woman. Retiring from the US Air Force as a Lt Col in 2012, Dr. Elijah now fully lives and embraces his core values: Authenticity, Integrity, and Transparency. Dr. Elijah further resigned his pastoral duties when he started his gender affirmation in 2018.
Dr. Elijah holds a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), a Masters in Business Administration (MBA), a Masters of Science in Leadership and Operational Art, a Masters of Art in Education Training & Leadership (MAET), and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Administration of Justice. Dr. Nicholas attended the Harvard Divinity Executive Education program in 2021. Dr. Elijah is the author of a Tran-inclusive family & children's book featuring Madoodle (aka Madison), a ten-year-old girl whose Uncle Pete was once her favorite Auntie Mary. Madoodle is based on Dr. Elijah's personal experiences with family as he navigated his gender transition. Dr. Elijah has provided Gender Identity and Trans Awareness & Inclusion Training for a host of organizations around the world.