(Canceled) The Power of Inclusion: Lessons from the Science of Team Science
Day 2: November 15, 2022 | 12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m., Northwoods Room
Session Description
Please note: This session has been canceled.
The most successful teams are diverse, but diversity in the absence of intentional and inclusive practices is not enough. The latest evidence from the Science of Team Science—the interdisciplinary, scientific study of teams—reveals that diversity’s power depends upon purposeful inclusion. This interactive workshop will explain why diversity is essential for effective team performance. Diverse teams that practice purposeful inclusion are more effective in solving complex problems. They are also more productive and generate more innovative ideas. Purposeful inclusion requires a psychologically safe environment to unleash the power that diversity brings to a team. When a team has a high level of psychological safety, its members feel safe to engage in interpersonal risk-taking, which is essential for a team’s diversity to flourish and improve team processes. The next portion of the workshop will explore the inclusion mindset. Like the growth mindset, the inclusion mindset reframes the interpretation of situations to promote acceptance, learning, and inclusion. This helps to prevent defensiveness and alienation, which halts progress. Finally, participants will have an opportunity to reflect on their experiences with the inclusive team practices of psychological safety and mindset reframing. This will allow for synthesizing these practical insights, creating concrete, tangible applications for participants and their teams.
Speakers
Patrick Kelly
Patrick Kelly, Ph.D., is the Team Science Core Program Manager at the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR), where he designs the administrative systems for the Team Science Core. Dr. Kelly’s research focuses on the value of interdisciplinarity and diversity in translational teams. Before joining ICTR, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University and UW–Madison. A recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, he is the author of the interdisciplinary study of human rights, “Sovereign Emergencies: Latin America and the Making of Global Human Rights Politics,” and has published articles in The New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Whitney Sweeney
Whitney Sweeney, Ph.D., is a scientist with the Team Science Core in the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR), where she develops and implements resources and tools supporting the expansion of complex team science for translational teams. Before joining ICTR, Dr. Sweeney served on the team that founded the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute. As assistant director, she established policy and processes, assembled teams and managed operations. Before that, Whitney supported faculty research and graduate education in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical informatics for 12 years. She earned her Ph.D. in cognitive and biological psychology at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.
