What you'll learn:
- Explain why Indigenous inclusion requires cultural, historical, legal, and workplace awareness.
- Recognize how colonial history and historical trauma can affect trust, participation, and belonging at work.
- Apply culturally respectful hiring, onboarding, mentorship, and retention practices for Indigenous employees.
- Identify stereotypes, biased language, microaggressions, and policies that can undermine cultural safety.
- Understand Indigenous rights, reconciliation, tribal sovereignty, and Free, Prior, and Informed Consent.
- Design Indigenous-focused training and accountability practices that move beyond performative DEI.
- Support Indigenous employee resource groups, cultural leave, flexible policies, and leadership pathways.
- Build stronger partnerships with Indigenous communities, advisors, suppliers, and organizations.
Indigenous inclusion is often missing from workplace diversity conversations. Many organizations have DEI strategies, employee resource groups, and inclusive hiring goals, yet Indigenous Peoples are still frequently grouped into broad diversity categories, misunderstood, or left out of the conversation entirely.
That gap matters.
This course is not just about representation. It is about understanding history, respecting sovereignty, recognizing cultural identity, and building workplaces where Indigenous employees feel safe, respected, and able to contribute fully. It also means moving beyond symbolic gestures like land acknowledgments or heritage month events, and taking practical action through recruitment, retention, training, policy, leadership, and accountability.
This course is designed to help you understand what Indigenous inclusion looks like in real workplace settings. You’ll explore the historical and cultural context that shapes Indigenous experiences at work, including colonialism, forced assimilation, land dispossession, and historical trauma. You’ll also learn why Indigenous inclusion carries unique legal, cultural, and ethical dimensions that are different from many other areas of workplace diversity.
Throughout the course, we’ll cover practical strategies for building more inclusive workplaces, including how to recruit Indigenous candidates, design culturally respectful hiring processes, support Indigenous employees after they are hired, build mentorship and leadership pathways, and create training programs that address real bias rather than checking a box.
You’ll also learn how concepts like cultural safety, Free, Prior, and Informed Consent, reconciliation, Indigenous employee resource groups, supplier diversity, and community partnership apply in business and organizational settings.
In this course, you’ll learn how to:
Define Indigenous inclusion and understand why it matters in the workplace.
Recognize the historical and colonial impacts that continue to shape Indigenous experiences today.
Understand key Indigenous rights, reconciliation frameworks, and legal concepts that affect organizations.
Avoid common myths, stereotypes, and assumptions about Indigenous Peoples.
Build more inclusive recruitment, hiring, onboarding, and retention practices.
Create culturally safe workplace environments that respect Indigenous identity, values, and traditions.
Design Indigenous-focused training that is meaningful, practical, and accountable.
Support Indigenous employees through mentorship, sponsorship, flexible policies, and leadership development.
Move beyond performative DEI efforts toward long-term partnerships and measurable change.
You’ll also examine a detailed case study of Teck Resources and NANA Regional Corporation’s Red Dog Mine partnership, showing how a company and an Indigenous organization built a long-term relationship rooted in shared value, employment, cultural respect, and community development.
By the end of this course, you’ll have a stronger understanding of Indigenous inclusion and a practical roadmap for creating workplaces where Indigenous Peoples are not just present, but respected, supported, and empowered.
Whether you work in HR, leadership, DEI, management, recruitment, learning and development, or community engagement, this course will help you take meaningful steps toward building inclusive spaces that are grounded in respect, responsibility, and real action.
