Certified Cultural Diversity & Inclusion Practitioner (CDIP)

DCA 100 provides training for individuals seeking to become certified diversity professionals, offered online (DCA 100B) and in the classroom (DCA 100A).

Topics include transforming organizations into inclusive and productive workforces and professional development. Participants learn a framework for transforming an organization into an engaged, productive, and inclusive workforce.

This course develops your ability to create high-impact training modules, giving you best-practice tools to design cost-effective modules that build competencies effectively.

It emphasizes cultural diversity training, but the skills apply to any training — covering both training design and training module development.

Designed for professionals interested in developing a strategic plan for creating organizations that are more diverse, inclusive, equitable, and accessible. It is based on the established idea that organizational change starts and ends with good data.

Participants learn to identify the steps in I.D.E.A. strategic planning, increase understanding of the role of evaluation in strategic planning, and develop a strategic plan from templates.

Mandatory cultural diversity training is one of the most challenging courses to facilitate, with political issues, differing attitudes, the mandatory requirement, and cultural differences among participants all requiring specialized skill.

This course provides participants with the skills needed to facilitate cultural diversity training successfully — engaging participants, managing group dynamics, and addressing sensitive topics with tact.

Choose an elective from the Diversity Certification Academy course catalog to deepen a specialization aligned with your goals and role.

Electives let you tailor the CDIP credential to your organization’s priorities and your professional development path.

A second elective rounds out the six-course program, broadening your cultural diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging competence.

Apply your elective learning alongside the core courses to drive meaningful change across your organization.