Crafting Inclusive Event Design Online Intensives

COURSE OVERVIEW

Get ready to craft meaningful events that resonate deeply with all participants while boosting your bottom line. Our new four-hour online intensive offers a fresh approach to building community by fostering connection and belonging. 

This high-impact learning experience will equip you with actionable strategies, practical tools, and a proven five-step framework to transform your events and empower you to lead with confidence.

You’ll learn to: 

• Develop critical thinking skills to reflect on diverse lived experiences, strengthening self and social awareness. 
• Embed inclusivity into every facet of event design. 
• Align objectives across stakeholder groups and sustain initiatives through continuous feedback and collaboration. 
• Navigate challenges by presenting compelling business cases. 

By mastering inclusive event design, you’ll differentiate yourself in the business events industry, align your events with evolving audience expectations, and work more effectively toward your organization’s goals.   

This course is ideal for: Experienced business events strategists, organizers, designers, and marketers ready to move from performative gestures to measurable impact without adding hours to an already packed schedule. 

COURSE FORMAT

Online intensives are designed for busy professionals, delivered via live online instruction within one to two class sessions. While you may need to complete coursework outside of class hours, the majority of course content is delivered in a digital classroom setting. Recordings are available on-demand for course participants to revisit key sections.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:  

1. Evaluate event experiences through an equity lens, using practical tools and checklists to audit event components such as programming, speakers, marketing, venue selection, and accessibility. 
2. Apply the Insight to Implementation framework to design event experiences that center connection, psychological safety, and belonging. 
3. Lead conversations and decision-making processes that shift inclusion from a one-time initiative to an embedded, systems-level approach in event strategy.