As a mid-level manager, you’re already making decisions, managing teams, and driving results, now take your leadership further. The Tech Diversity Academy’s inclusive leadership programme equips leaders with research-backed tools and frameworks to make that shift, transforming good intentions into measurable workplace change.
Backed by real data from Cultural Infusion Atlas and the Tech Reflects study, and endorsed by the Australian Computer Society (ACS), you’ll gain the tools to build stronger teams and foster meaningful change.
When inclusive leadership is done right, the impact is clear:
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87% better decision-making (Forbes)
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73% higher innovation revenue (Harvard Business Review)
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70% greater success in new markets
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Up to 36% higher profitability
Delivered in three focused modules, this program fits seamlessly into your schedule while delivering measurable results for your team and your career.
Investment: $1,485 (ex. GST)
Format: 100% Online
BE Ready to Lead: Solving the Mid-Manager Challenge
The modules have been deeply transformative. Moving from awareness to action really challenged me to look critically at how inclusion is practiced not just spoken about. I’ve learned that real progress requires addressing structural barriers, rethinking how we gather and interpret data, and creating systems where every voice can influence outcomes.
Who attended 2025?
Ground Probe – Software Team Lead
Fujitsu – Senior Consultant
Woolworths Group – Group Product Manager
Starwood Industries L.L.C LLC – IT Manager
Hay-IT IT Service Solutions Ltd – CEO & Owner
APA – Manager Information Services
Kinetic IT – Account Director
Epsilon Retail – Media Senior Engineering Manager
KPMG – Assistant Manager
UnitedHealth Group (Optum) – Cybersecurity
Before you commit, take a moment to explore if this is for you.
Course Duration and Structure
- Delivered 100% online.
- Each module is designed to take between 50 to 75 minutes to complete, with each module recommended to be completed within a week.
- The full course duration is spread over three modules.
- The academy will be open from September to November, allowing flexibility for participants to complete the modules at their own pace.
Key Take Homes
- Data-driven leadership insights
- Practical tools for daily use
- Strategies that boost performance
- Evidence-based approaches
- Measurable impact methods
- Skills that create lasting change
Tools and Resources
- The course will include various tools and resources such as downloadable PDFs, self-assessment surveys, and interactive questions.
- Participants will have access to practical applications and discussion questions to enhance their learning experience.
Facilitator and Monitoring
- At the end of each week, the facilitator will write a summary of the most common questions and provide responses to ensure participants receive comprehensive feedback.
Value of the Academy
- The academy offers a transformative learning journey.
- Participants will receive a digital certificate and badge endorsed by ACS, adding credibility and recognition to their professional development.
- The course is designed to be self-paced, allowing participants to integrate learning into their schedules without overwhelming them.
TechDiversity Academy Modules
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Module 1 | Leadership Fundamentals:
Inclusive Leadership Through Data
Build your foundation for high-performance leadership.
Overview
Discover how diverse perspectives fuel innovation, enhance employee wellbeing, and lead to measurable business results. Grounded in real-world insights from Tech Reflects — Australia’s leading tech workforce study — this program helps leaders understand the “why” and “how” behind inclusive, high-performing teams.
What You’ll Gain
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✅ Articulate the business case for high-performance, inclusive teams
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✅ Understand the impact of leadership decisions on engagement and retention
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✅ Use data to lead intentionally, not just intuitively
This is more than an introduction — it’s your starting point for driving real, measurable change.
Course Format
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Duration: 15–20 minutes per day for one week
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Schedule: Available September to November
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Delivery: Self-paced or facilitated with a virtual check-in
Welcome to Your Starting Point for Meaningful Change
Sharpen your understanding of what makes inclusive leadership work. This foundational session offers clarity, strategy, and actionable insight to shift workplace culture and team performance.
Module 1: What You’ll Learn
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
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Define diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DE+I) in a workplace context — and explain how they work together
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Articulate the business case for DE+I, including its impact on culture, innovation, and performance
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Recognise how DE+I drives decision-making, retention, and engagement
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Understand how data deepens inclusion, moving beyond surface-level identity to intentional team-building
Module 2 | Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities
Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities
From Awareness to Action: Bridging the Gaps That Matter
Overview
Navigate the complexity of modern workplaces with clarity and confidence. This module tackles the real-world challenges leaders face — from communication barriers and unconscious bias to generational dynamics and underrepresentation.
Through insights grounded in the Tech Reflects dataset, you’ll learn to identify the invisible systems and behaviors that can undermine inclusion — even when intentions are positive. This is where DE+I becomes real: nuanced, challenging, and rich with opportunity.
What You’ll Gain
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✅ Interpret workforce data to uncover team performance gaps
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✅ Recognise how unconscious bias shapes decision-making and culture
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✅ Handle difficult conversations with skill and confidence
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✅ Understand how intersectionality, neurodivergence, cultural and generational shifts affect team dynamics
You’ll explore the subtle but powerful forces like microaggressions, implicit bias, and structural inequity — and how to respond with clarity, compassion, and courage.
Course Format
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Duration: 15–20 minutes per day for one week
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Schedule: Available September to November
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Delivery: Self-paced or facilitator-led with virtual check-in
Module 2| What You Will Learn
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Interpret key TechReflects data to uncover representation gaps across sectors and identities
- Understand how implicit and systemic biases shape culture and decision-making
- Identify the presence and impact of neurodivergence, intersectionality, and underrepresentation in your workplace
- Reflect on everyday behaviors — like microaggressions — that either reinforce or challenge inequity
Module 3 | Using Data to Drive Inclusion
Using Data to Drive Inclusion
Turn insights into action and create lasting change.
Overview
This final module equips you with the frameworks and tools to embed inclusion into the very fabric of your organisation. Go beyond intention, learn how to make inclusion part of how your teams hire, communicate, collaborate, and lead.
With insights from the Tech Reflects dataset, you’ll gain the structure and evidence needed to turn values into measurable outcomes. Build a culture where equity is not just a statement, but a sustained practice that drives trust, innovation, and performance.
Course Format
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Duration: 15–20 minutes per day for one week
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Schedule: Available September to November
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Delivery: Self-paced or facilitator-led with virtual check-in
What You’ll Learn
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
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Translate DE+I principles into policies, systems, and daily practices
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Create and sustain psychological safety in teams and leadership environments
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Use DE+I data (such as Tech Reflects) to design continuous improvement cycles
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Implement inclusive communication strategies to lead with cultural intelligence, authenticity, and openness
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Build accountability structures that ensure DE+I is a core driver of innovation and organisational trust
Meet the TechDiversity Academy Facilitator:
Dr Nandi Spry
Dr Nandi Spry has been been featured in the Australian Journal of Adult Learning: Spry N & Marchant T (2014) ‘How a personal development program enhances social connection and mobilises women in the community, Australian Journal of Adult Learning, July 54:2, pp. 32-53. https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/server/api/core/bitstreams/b12fea05-8356-5031-8914-966ed2204324/content
Nandi earned a BA at the University of Technology, Sydney and an Msd at the University of NSW before completing a DBA at Southern Cross University. She is a Director of the Board of ONE80TC, a charity organisation that rehabilitates men and women with drug and alcohol addictions.
Nandi has lived in Sydney for over 20 years with her lovely husband and 3 children. Before this, Nandi attended International School in Lusaka, Zambia, and then moved to Outback Australia for high school. Her cultural background is a mix of Indigenous Zambian from the Lozi Tribe and Caucasian Australian.
Meet the Mind Behind the Modules:
Amna Ben Amara
Amna Ben Amara is the researcher and lecturer from Diversity Atlas shaping the core of TD Academy’s learning experience. With two master’s degrees in Intercultural Management and Cultural Studies, she brings both academic depth and real-world understanding to the Academy’s DEI-driven curriculum.
She has contributed to global MOOCs on diversity, including at Politecnico di Milano and through the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP).
Recognised as a young global leader, Amna was selected to speak at the prestigious International Conference on Cohesive Societies, sponsored by Singapore’s Ministry of Culture. Her expertise is further enriched by training through Erasmus+ and European Commission programs, focusing on intercultural dialogue and cultural competence.
Her work is a testament to the power of inclusive thinking and global perspective—foundational to everything we do at TD Academy.
Be the Change: Embed DE+I into your everyday leadership
Who Should Join?
The Academy is built for professionals ready to lead with purpose, including:
- Team Leaders and Mid-Level Managers
- Heads of Product, Tech, Delivery & Transformation
- UX, Data, Design, Marketing, People & Culture professionals
- Sales, Legal, Finance, Ops & Comms leaders
Anyone ready to embed inclusive leadership into their everyday
Why It Works
TechReflects = Data + Trends + Awareness
TD Academy = Application + Action + Transformation
Together, they empower you to:
- Understand where your organisation stands
- Lead with clarity and confidence
- Drive inclusive growth in tech
Starts September 2025
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What others say
Dr. Nandi Spry shares her experience in the 2023 TD Academy Course.
Words from the TD Community
Luli Adeyemo
Executive Director of TD Foundation and Founder of Best Case Scenario
“The TD Academy community is made up of people who believe in the power of community and education to harness the DEI transformational process.”
Ali Wood
Senior Diversity and Inclusion Specialist at REA Group
“When I think about the value that the TD Academy will bring to me as a DEI practitioner, it’s really about tapping into the diverse thinking of a community of other practitioners who might be doing really innovative things.”
Will Wheeler
Founder/Director at Neurodiversity Academy
“At Neurodiversity Academy, we’re all about helping organisations to create Neuro-inclusive workplaces. We’re very excited to be partnering with TD Academy to become a part of the community.”
TechDiversity Academy Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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Why enrol in the course?
Many businesses or organisations don’t as yet understand the economic value of implementing DE+I in the workplace.
This course will give you the confidence to carry out sustainable organisational change and cultural economic and social transformation.
Research shows that organisations with diverse & inclusive cultures are:
6 x more likely to be innovative
87% better decision-making from diverse teams
35% more likely to perform better and have increased ROI
Should inclusive leadership be my priority now, given current challenges?
We acknowledge that many organisations are being forced to make difficult decisions around workforce planning. Common problems related to restructuring include employees needing to learn new things as part of their job and higher workloads and less engagement. Sustained employee engagement and well-being is business-critical and delivers demonstrable ROI.
So now isn’t the time to take the foot off the gas when it comes to inclusive leadership and the impact it has on technology workforces. Companies need to continue to lay down the seeds now to be ready for the future. More and more organisations are realising the value of inclusive leadership an an enabler to face these challenges and sharpen their competitive edge.
What is the investment?
Investment in the TechDiversity Academy’s modules vary
There are frameworks and activities that you can use in your workplace, this enables participants to put some of our DE+I modules into immediate action.
- Access frameworks
- Download posters to distribute to your team
- Receive free, personal advice from our expert DE+I faciliators
- Get involved in discussions with other DE+I and HR specialists on the same DEI journey
Why partner with ACS?
We partnered with the Australian Computer Society (ACS) because we are deeply aligned in purpose and mission. ACS exists to advance professional excellence in technology and to grow Australia’s tech workforce—goals that are impossible to achieve without addressing the systemic barriers to access, inclusion, and representation.
At TechDiversity, we believe that meaningful change in the tech workforce starts with education, awareness, and action. The TD Academy was created to equip professionals across all roles—not just in HR or leadership—with the tools and knowledge to become effective DEI champions within their organisations.
By joining forces with ACS, we’re combining our DEI expertise with their reach and influence across the Australian tech landscape. Through this partnership, ACS members gain exclusive access to the TD Academy program at a 15% discount, and ACS continues to support our Community Connect events—gatherings designed to foster open, inclusive dialogue and practical learning.
Together, we’re working toward a more representative, innovative tech industry and helping Australia meet its target of 1.2 million tech professionals by 2027. This partnership marks a pivotal step forward in creating a future where diversity, equity and inclusion are not just values—but industry standards.
What is Cultural Infusion Atlas?
Cultural Infusion Atlas is the creator of the only cultural diversity data-analysis platform that provides inclusive Self ID and actionable insight to create better workplaces.
It enables organisations to understand the diverse richness of its teams and to better measure, understand, acknowledge and act on its diversity, inclusion and development strategies with its platform and services.
Thank you to our TD Academy Partners
Without our partners, the TD Academy would not be possible. As a social enterprise, we appreciate their support in delivering inclusive leadership to our community of champions.
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