The DEI Learning Journey, from SunShower Learning, is an easy-to-implement package of five of our award-winning courses.
Embarking on this learning journey will empower your team to cultivate a profound understanding and genuine appreciation for diverse perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Moreover, they will acquire essential skills to effectively communicate and collaborate across various dimensions of difference.
Propel your organization toward a more inclusive, innovative and socially responsible workplace. As your people learn and practice skills for inclusion, you are driving meaningful change to create a culture where people feel like they belong.
SunShower Learning provides a comprehensive approach and supports you at every step. Our training is widely regarded as best-in-class, having been developed by distinguished DEI experts and celebrated documentary filmmakers. Furthermore, our custom implementation support is specifically designed to help you achieve high completion rates.
SunShower Learning provides a comprehensive approach and supports you at every step. Our training is widely regarded as best-in-class, having been developed by distinguished DEI experts and celebrated documentary filmmakers. Furthermore, our custom implementation support is specifically designed to help you achieve high completion rates.
A turnkey DEI Learning Journey
There's Are you in need of a purposeful strategy to commit and focus your Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) work in 2025?
Despite the pushback, this work is important, especially for younger employees.
The DEI Learning Journey, from SunShower Learning, is a package of five award-winning courses designed to propel your team forward. Through compelling narratives, these courses not only educate and inspire but also evoke a powerful emotional impact. This is the SunShower difference.
The DEI Learning Journey, from SunShower Learning, is a package of five award-winning courses designed to propel your team forward. Through compelling narratives, these courses not only educate and inspire but also evoke a powerful emotional impact. This is the SunShower difference.
Many organizations find themselves overwhelmed when it comes to creating a DEI training plan. The challenge of where to begin and how to make progress can be daunting. Consequently, companies end up piecing things together, and the results are lackluster. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Test-drive the DEI Learning Journey from SunShower Learning
Cultivate a culture of inclusivity and psychological safety within your workplace, which will, in turn, foster teamwork, productivity and overall success. SunShower Learning’s award-winning courses impart essential skills. Our specialty lies in assembling a team of distinguished world-class DEI experts and combining creative storytelling, sophisticated film production and compelling instructional design. This unique approach ensures that SunShower Learning courses create a memorable, emotional impact, setting them apart from ordinary training that merely checks the DEI box.
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We Collaborate With Distinguished Experts
Joel is pleased to share more about the team of authors, speakers and facilitators who have collaborated with us to create these important programs. The collective intelligence and experience are only outweighed by the passion these talented leaders bring to the work.
Leslie Aguilar
Founder, International Training and Development
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Leslie wrote the book Ouch! That Stereotype Hurts and collaborated with Joel Lesko from SunShower Learning to produce the wildly popular and multi-award winning video, online course and eLearning. She also collaborated with Joel to create the follow-up program, Ouch! Your Silence Hurts. The Ouch! series has been enthusiastically used by tens of thousands of organizations around the world with significant personal and organizational results.
Leslie is an author, consultant and curriculum developer in the areas of DEIB, multicultural and multilingual competence and multicultural customer service. Watch the interview with Leslie here in which she offers valuable insights into the practical applications of Ouch! techniques.
Courses in the SunShower library:
Hideko Akashi
Founder, Liberation Consulting
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Hideko has over 20 years of experience in the educational sector, challenging individuals and institutions to think critically about issues of diversity, privilege, social justice, inclusion and equity and to create healthy, meaningful work cultures.
Hideko has worked with SunShower to create learning experiences around the myths of the model minority and AAPI experience.
Courses in the SunShower library:
Hideko and SunShower have co-created Understanding the Complexity of the AAPI Experience and it's now available!
Coming soon:
Coming soon:
- Myths and Models: AAPI Inclusion
- Expanding the Gender Binary
- Pronouns
Mary Chlopecki, Esq.
Workplace Investigations, Training & Consulting, Senior Investigator and Counsel, Georgetown University
With 20+ years of diverse experience, and a Juris Doctor from George Mason University School of Law, Mary is a trusted legal advisor and EEO specialist, serving clients in the public, private and nonprofit sectors.
Mary has deep competency in conducting professional, end-to-end, confidential workplace investigations.
Mary is a seasoned trainer with a record of success developing and delivering an array of live and virtual programs, and she’s experienced in designing and performing work environment studies and climate assessments.
Mary has deep competency in conducting professional, end-to-end, confidential workplace investigations.
Mary is a seasoned trainer with a record of success developing and delivering an array of live and virtual programs, and she’s experienced in designing and performing work environment studies and climate assessments.
Courses in the SunShower library:
- Within Our Power: Preventing and Addressing Sexual Harassment Together
Tina Dyer
Founder, Grafted Together Consulting
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Tina is a leader in the areas of global diversity and inclusion, a public speaker and an organization development professional with proven success in designing and implementing DEI strategies and initiatives, coaching senior leaders and enhancing employee engagement, retention and productivity.
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Tina is a Somatic Abolitionist Practitioner with years of experience in coaching around Racial, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. She has collaborated with SunShower to conduct online live trainings across many industries.Tina is developing a new course with SunShower that will help people build a capacity mentally, emotionally, and physically for staying present and engaging in conversations across dimensions of diversity, especially race.
Greg Gale
Founder, Insight Out Consulting
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For over 25 years, Greg has held DEI leadership positions in both Fortune 100 companies and non- profit organizations and has implemented DEI solutions throughout the US and globally.
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Greg has high-level experience developing DEI strategy, coaching leaders to develop inclusion skills and creating insightful and actionable group learning experiences.Greg has led workshops with SunShower in Inclusive Leadership and has worked with our clients to aid them in the Enterprise roll-out of our eLearning courses.
Courses in the SunShower library:
Katherine Jeffery, Ph.D.
Founder, KJ Consulting
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Dr. Katherine Jeffery is a generational researcher and practitioner who’s passionate about guiding companies and organizations through the massive leadership transition in the world right now.
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Dr. Jeffery is a highly sought-after consultant and presenter, known for her engaging workshops on intergenerational dynamics. Her ability to translate research into practical solutions has made her an international thought leader, shaping the future of leadership and organizational development.GenShift is based on Dr. Jeffery’s extensive research and experience in consulting and coaching teams to enhance communication, collaboration, and success across generations.
Courses in the SunShower library:
Robin Denise Johnson, Ph.D.
Founder, RDJ Training
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Dr. Robin is a Harvard Business School trained Ph.D. and wrote an award-winning dissertation on diversity, work-life balance and empowerment.
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Dr. Robin’s BA is in International Relations / World History from Brown University, and her Masters in Social Psychology is from Harvard. She was also faculty at Darden University of Virginia, Cal Poly Pomona and UCLA as well as a visiting professor at Ozyegin Business School in Istanbul, Turkey.
Dr. Robin has collaborated with SunShower on the series, Being a Kind Leader which includes 3 modules - 6 Soft S.K.I.L.L.S., Developing Trust and Living Your Values . The SKILLS and Trust courses have both won multiple awards.
Dr. Robin has collaborated with SunShower on the series, Being a Kind Leader which includes 3 modules - 6 Soft S.K.I.L.L.S., Developing Trust and Living Your Values . The SKILLS and Trust courses have both won multiple awards.
Courses in the SunShower library:
Lisette Peacock, MBA
Chief Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Officer, National Audubon Society
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As a fervent advocate for the transformative power of inclusion within enterprises, Lisette has launched and scaled award-winning DEI organizations and programs that align with the company's mission, vision and values.
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Throughout her career, she has successfully established, designed and led scalable, company-wide diversity models at renowned institutions such as Jefferson Health, Yale New Haven Health System and TriHealth, integrating DEI into their core infrastructures. Previously, she held the position of Executive Vice President and Chief DEI Officer at Jefferson Health, a 198-year-old legacy organization with 18 hospitals and 10 colleges with over 50,000 employees and students.
Lisette was appointed by the National Audubon Society to spearhead efforts across the organization, integrating equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging (EDIB) practices seamlessly into the fabric of Audubon’s operations. Her role involves refining policies and procedures and championing data-driven change initiatives.
Lisette was appointed by the National Audubon Society to spearhead efforts across the organization, integrating equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging (EDIB) practices seamlessly into the fabric of Audubon’s operations. Her role involves refining policies and procedures and championing data-driven change initiatives.
Courses in the SunShower library:
Steve L. Robbins, Ph.D.
Speaker, Author, Inclusion & Belonging Consultant, Founder SL Robbins & Assoc.
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Dr. Steve Robbins is a master storyteller. He blends art and science to motivate people to be better humans. His style has been described as a mix of Bill Nye the Science Guy, The Big Bang Theory and Saturday Night Live.
Steve is well-known for his concept on Unintentional Intolerance which is featured in the SunShower course, Inclusion Insights. Our micro-learning course consists of 11 insight nuggets in which Steve tells stories and challenges our automatic assumptions.
Courses in the SunShower library:
Marsha Ross-Jackson, Esq., MPA
Senior Lecturer, Ass. Dean of DEI, University Ombudsperson at Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Marsha is the Senior Lecturer, Associate Dean of DEI and University Ombudsperson at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Marsha is also an experienced attorney, arbitrator, facilitator and consultant who provides training and advice on a variety of employee relations and leadership topics, including, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
Marsha has delivered many live online trainings with SunShower in the areas of unconscious bias, microaggressions and inclusive hiring, consistently receiving rave reviews.
Derald Wing Sue, Ph.D.
Researcher, Author and Faculty,
Teachers College, Columbia University
Dr. Sue is a pioneer in the field of multicultural education and the psychology of racism and antiracism.
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Dr. Sue is one of the leading researchers and authors on microaggressions. Dr. Sue’s books include Micro-aggressions in Everyday Life, and Microintervention Strategies.
Dr. Sue collaborated with SunShower to produce Disarming Microaggressions and the 21-Day Plan for Disarming Microaggressions.
Courses in the SunShower library:
Sondra Thiederman, Ph.D.
Speaker, Author, Founder of Cross Cultural Consultants
Dr. Sondra Thiederman is one of the nation’s leading experts on unconscious bias and workplace inclusion issues.
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Sondra is a researcher and speaker known for providing practical skills for defeating unconscious bias/implicit bias in the workplace. Sondra collaborated with SunShower to create three powerful and award-winning courses that continue to be favorites today: Defeating Unconscious Bias, Diversity Dialogue Blunders, and Unconscious Bias in FOCUS.
Courses in the SunShower library:
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