Short Courses

Innovative research, collective intelligence and decision-making quality increases in diverse teams that are inclusive. This is evidenced by research studies in Science, PNAS and others. Furthermore, financial returns for companies with more gender and racially diverse boards is higher than their peers by as much as 25-36% as evidenced by McKinsey’s latest report.

This leads to more highly cited and novel research papers, better product design, implementation and completion rates for your firm’s tech projects.  

This interactive, workshop-style short course will give you practical skills and tips and tools to work with, manage and lead diverse teams in a STEM workplace. 

While there are more generalist diversity training courses available, these don’t fully understand the profession and its unique culture and unique practical challenges you maybe facing. 

The instructor is a practising engineer with 20 years' experience in the profession, bringing her lived experience of the profession to the training to make it authentic and impactful. 

By the end of this course, you’ll have the skills to successfully work with and manage a diverse STEM workforce and benefit from lower attrition rates, better performance and better return on investment. 

Some salient features of the short course include:

• Understand equity, diversity and inclusion, as well as the differences in these concepts as they play out in the workplace (to put in practice values on diversity and inclusion). 
• Understand and fully embrace the benefits of diverse teams and an inclusive workplace culture. 
• Apply practical tips, tools and behaviours to manage racial, cultural, gender, intergenerational and global diversity. 
• Manage culture competence and difficult conversations in a workplace where diverse team members are present .
• Know how to manage tensions and encourage collaboration and respect between staff who struggle to work effectively with a diverse workforce.

Arti’s current professional positions reflect her dual passions: science and social justice.

She is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Data Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney. She is also the CEO and founder of Vividhata Pty Ltd, a diversity and inclusion consulting company.

Arti’s research interests lie in optics: modelling of photonic components such as solar cells, optical fibers, sensors, lasers, etc. She is an expert on numerical methods for optics such as Finite Element Method (FEM). She has written a book on FEM and edited a book on trends in computational photonics.

Arti is a Senior Member of the IEEE and Optica, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics and both a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Physicist.

Arti was awarded the 2020 IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Service Award for exceptional contributions to the Photonics Society as a champion of diversity and inclusion initiatives. She was also awarded the OSA Diversity and Advocacy Recognition in 2020 for an unwavering dedication to promoting diversity and inclusion throughout the global optics and photonics community.