ERG Leads Training Programme
Who is it for?
This is for leads, co-chairs and committee members of internal Networks / ERGs (Employee Resource Groups)
Whatever the size and whether you're a few months in or a few years in, if you want to run a more effective committee, make a real impact for your network community, and make a stronger case to senior leadership for the support it deserves - this is where to start.
What you'll get out of it
- The ability to communicate your network's value clearly and raise its visibility across the business
- Strategies to engage senior sponsors and committee members
- Practical approaches to building a realistic network plan that works in a time-poor environment
- A succession and handover framework you can adapt for your network
- Tools to handle difficult moments with confidence
- Connections with ERG leads from other firms
What the programme covers
Five one hour modules spanning five weeks
Welcome and introductions
Meet the cohort, explore the different roles you play as an ERG leader, take stock of your network's strengths and challenges, and set your goals for the programme.
Communication and Influence: Getting Your Network Heard
How to communicate your network's value to the people who matter, reach beyond your existing membership, raise your visibility, and handle difficult moments with confidence.
Governance, Planning and Prioritisation: Running a Network That Delivers
How to build a realistic network plan, work effectively with your firm's governance and other networks, and show the impact you're making.
Leading Without Authority: Committee Leadership in a Corporate Environment
How to re-engage your committee, share the load, bring sponsors on board, and practise the harder conversations that keep things moving.
Succession, Sustainability and What Comes Next
How to identify your next leaders, hand over well, and build a network that doesn't depend on any one person.
What the programme covers
Five one hour modules spanning five weeks
Session One: Welcome and introductions
Meet the cohort, explore the different roles you play as an ERG leader, take stock of your network's strengths and challenges, and set your goals for the programme.
Session Two: Communication and Influence: Getting Your Network Heard
How to communicate your network's value to the people who matter, reach beyond your existing membership, raise your visibility, and handle difficult moments with confidence.
Session Three: Governance, Planning and Prioritisation: Running a Network That Delivers
How to build a realistic network plan, work effectively with your firm's governance and other networks, and show the impact you're making.
Session Four: Leading Without Authority: Committee Leadership in a Corporate Environment
How to re-engage your committee, share the load, bring sponsors on board, and practise the harder conversations that keep things moving.
Session Five: Succession, Sustainability and What Comes Next
How to identify your next leaders, hand over well, and build a network that doesn't depend on any one person.
Expert course leaders
Benefit from the expertise of leading industry trainers including:
Tash Koster-Thomas
Tash Koster-Thomas is an EDI consultant, facilitator and speaker who has worked across every stage of the employee resource group journey, from first launch to strategic maturity. She has supported networks at organisations including Bupa, King's College London and Forsters, chairing ERG leadership days that help networks collaborate intersectionally rather than in silos.
Geff Parsons
Geff Parsons is CEO of The Inclusion Imperative, a DE&I consultancy through which he works to improve standards of inclusion, and particularly LGBTQ+ inclusion, in other organisations. Before retiring from financial services he was a Managing Director at Macquarie Group, where he chaired the LGBTQ+ network, Pride, for eight years. Under his leadership Macquarie ranked first in Stonewall's Workplace Equality Index.
Jenny Garrett
Jenny Garrett OBE is the founder and CEO of Jenny Garrett Global, a leadership development consultancy specialising in inclusive, entrepreneurial and AI-ready leadership. Her work spans coaching, leadership development programmes and keynote speaking, helping people lead with confidence and influence. Jenny has worked with employee resource groups and networks across sectors, helping network leaders build influence, engage members and create change without formal authority.
Sinead O'Brien
Sinead O'Brien is an executive leadership coach with over 20 years in global corporate organisations, including multinational executive leadership roles and more than a decade at PwC as an HR Business Partner focused on leadership development and people strategy. She founded a Diversity and Inclusion committee at Allegis Group, building a network of D&I champions across the business and leading wellbeing initiatives on mental health and financial security. A Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, she works across professional services, finance, law, technology and media, and coaches from first-time leaders up to CEO level.
Practical details
- First cohort: 10th, 18th, 24th November & 2nd, 8th December at 12:30pm to 1:30pm GMT
- Live online, lunchtime sessions - once a week over five consecutive weeks
- Cross-firm cohort drawn from WorkLife Central member organisations
- £495 + VAT per person - member and group booking discounts available
A closed discussion group is set up for the cohort at the start of the programme and stays live after it ends - a space to share questions, resources and wins. At the end of the programme, you’ll also be invited to join WorkLife Central’s ERG Communities.
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Pricing
| Number of attendees | Member Price (pp) | Non-Member Price (pp) |
| 1 | £445 + VAT | £495 + VAT |
| 2 | £445 + VAT | £495 + VAT |
| 3+ | £395 + VAT | £445 + VAT |
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