Joel Barker's Wealth, Innovation & Diversity

Produced

• 2000

Key Features

This training program includes one 28 minute video (VHS or DVD-R), Leader’s Guide, participant workbook, pocket reminder card, and a CD-ROM with handouts, participant take-away overhead slides and PowerPoint presentation. Additional materials are available separately.

Wealth, Innovation & Diversity takes you on a journey around the world to understand a fundamental truth: Without diversity, there can be no innovation; without innovation, there can be no new wealth; therefore, diversity is the key to creating wealth for all.

Hosted by best-selling author Joel Barker, Wealth, Innovation & Diversity contends that your organization will experience long-lasting success only when you hire, promote and encourage diverse people and their ideas. Lessons are taught against such backdrops as Machu Piccu’s ruins, a farm in Ireland, skyscrapers in Singapore, and the forests and plains of America. Drawing from history and science, Barker shares inspirational stories, making all of your viewers feel comfortable discussing the many dimensions of diversity.

Wealth, Innovation & Diversity is a vital viewing for everyone in your organization and will prove to be a valuable foundational program for all your diversity training.

Key Learning Points:

• A new understanding of the value of diversity.
• The connection diversity has to innovation and wealth.
• What mutualism is and why it is so important to your future.
• Why diversity is a natural and vital part of our universe.

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Wealth, Innovation & Diversity testimonials and quotes

"The messages are right on... They are very powerful because of the examples Joel Barker uses to tell the stories, like the forest, Ford and Singapore---so people can relate and make connections about diversity that they probably have not had the opportunity to do before. The photography is phenomenal. It will cause people to go places they have never been on the topic of diversity. Joel introduces a new word -- mutualism -- that will be impactful in helping us take diversity to a new level. The message is different, and together with the package of materials, provides tools to help us build on what we have already accomplished. Fresh, new thinking!"
Emily Duncan, Worldwide Director, Global Diversity, HP

"Fabulous... There is so much within the video, and the support materials and process for helping people. You can approach it from many different places. We are all on a quest for innovation. I see the video as a great introduction and the dialogue process and support tools that come with it, being the heart of the whole thing. Powerful, inspiring work!"
Debby McIsaac, Manager, Global People Development, HP

"Joel Barker provides a refreshing different perspective to diversity discussions by forcefully arguing that diversity enables innovation in the face of adversity, which is the source of America's great wealth. Anyone interested in geting beyond the numbers game – alone, will find real reasons for encouraging differences that make innovative distinctions."
Joe Pine, Co-author, "The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage."

"What Joel Barker has managed to do in this video is simple amazing. No longer is "diversity" a nice, if obscure, thing to do. He rightly presents diversity as the source of new thinking – the true wellspring of innovation and wealth! Your company can profit form this video, in more ways than one."
Tom Brown, Editor, MG, The "New Ideas" Webzine

"This is the most important and impactful message you could ever share, discuss, aspire toward, and live. Joel Barker delivers a wake-up call and grand-scale opportunity to 21st Century leaders everywhere, as well as a defined pathway to abudance and truth."
Paul G. Stoltz, President & CEO, PEAK Learning, Inc.