Harnessing Emotional Intelligence to Cultivate Collaboration, Diversity, and Equity in Organizations.
This dynamic and interactive course is designed to equip leaders with the essential skills and insights needed to foster inclusive workplaces by strategically applying emotional intelligence. Effective leadership goes beyond traditional management approaches in today's diverse and rapidly changing business landscape. Successful leaders understand the importance of emotional intelligence in building strong, collaborative teams and creating an inclusive organizational culture.
This training is geared towards creating an environment that promotes Inclusive Leadership. The course helps leaders, supervisors, and managers create a shared language and understanding across their organizations.
Inclusive Leadership
As conversations around racial equity, diversity, and inclusion have become increasingly more common, leaders are challenging themselves to develop steps to integrate inclusive leadership to move their businesses forward. Increasing diversity and having anti-bias training are good primary steps, but creating a truly inclusive and diverse workforce goes much deeper.
To help leaders, supervisors, or managers evaluate their own strategies and approaches, we discuss the importance of understanding the 6 Cs of inclusive leaders.Â
At Radiant Sunshine, our goal is to offer a special blend of expertise and client-centered care that encourages emotional, spiritual, physical, social, and intellectual wellness. Radiant Sunshine’s core values incorporate our beliefs as a center of excellence in human service and social work. Our overarching principles of empowerment, enrichment, and education combine to offer a lifelong impact to those we serve. Radiant Sunshine, #1403, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Radiant Sunshine maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 2/28/23 to 2/28/2026. Radiant Sunshine has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7371. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.
Michelle Boggan worked for nonprofit social services agencies for over 24 years and is currently making a career change to entrepreneurship. After 20 years of working in the field, she continued her academic education and earned her Masters in Social Work (MSW) from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 2019. While in the MSW program, she interned at RS Wellness and Counseling Center, providing individual, couples, and family therapy using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. Throughout her career as an administrator serving people with disabilities, brain injuries, and mental and emotional health vulnerabilities, she never gave up on her goal to be a therapist and entrepreneur. Michelle is excited about the next chapter in life and looks forward to using her God-given gifts, education, training, work, and life experience to serve individuals and families on their journeys to developing or enhancing their wellness. Michelle's most important role are being a mother to her two daughters and a wife.
CEO
Sharea Farmer is the Founder and CEO of RS Counseling & Wellness with over 20 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker. Her training includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Theory, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Racial Trauma. Her expertise in both clinical and administration has allowed her to work in the private and public sectors as an advocate for employee wellness, Diversity & Inclusion, Race Equity, and Trauma-Informed Practices. Her unique practice that focuses on empowerment and education creates transformative wellness for her clients that range from executive leadership teams to supervisors to staff. RS Wellness has developed employee resilience plans and trauma-informed care programs for state and public health agencies, as well as educational groups, both locally and nationally. The workshops and courses created by RS Wellness are the keys to a healthy trauma-informed workplace where everyone can thrive. Courses fall under four categories: DEI, Social Work Continuing Education, Trauma-Focused, and Wellness. Although each course is tailored to its specific subject matter, the courses provide curriculum, assignments, video, and affirming activities. In recent projects, Sharea led the development of Racial Equity training, committees, DEI, and trauma-informed supervision in both Philadelphia and New Jersey-based government, public health, and nonprofit agencies including the City of Philadelphia Division of Substance Use Prevention and Harm Reduction, Access Matters, Philadelphia Futures, The Ladipo Group, National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation, NJ National Association of Social Work and more. This led to assisting those agencies with the development of their trauma-informed and diversity and inclusion strategies. Sharea lives in New Jersey with her husband. She enjoys all things basketball, live NBA games, traveling, coloring, and spending time with family and friends.
