Transform Your Workplace
Ignite your next event with an extraordinary facilitator who delivers impact, inspiration, and transformation. Sejal Thakkar stands ready to captivate your audience, leaving a lasting imprint on their hearts and minds.
With an unwavering passion for empowering others, Sejal brings an unparalleled level of energy, authenticity, and relatability to the stage. Her magnetic presence and engaging storytelling effortlessly connect with diverse audiences, showcasing her unique ability to tailor her message to resonate deeply with your attendees.
TrainXtra Courses
Cultivating and Fostering a Workplace of Civility
Civil treatment is an important driver of overall company performance including long-term profits. Fostering a fair and professional workplace culture enables your company to lever the power of diverse views to make better decisions, improve engagement, attract top talent and sustain performance.
Everyone deserves to feel welcome, supported, and valued at work.
Civility in an essential aspect of every work environment. Civility is important to create and maintain a fair and professional workplace culture.
Cultural change within a company is typically an evolutionary process. A series of daily decisions and behaviors exhibited by each person within a company indirectly shapes that culture. Everyone has a responsibility to monitor their own behavior to ensure that it is appropriate and aligned with organizational values and policies.
Diversity and globalization bring people from different cultures into contact with one another. These differences can cause friction between people if we react negatively to those differences. If not properly managed, the friction can turn into conflict quickly.
I will teach your team the norms of acceptable workplace conduct and how to identify, prevent and respond professionally to any workplace incivility situations.
The goal is to create a workplace built on respect and courtesy and an appreciation of our differences.
This highly interactive training utilizes storytelling, facilitated discussion, and scenarios to help employees and managers build skills to proactively identify their own unconscious biases and mitigate subtle acts of exclusion to foster a more civil, unified, and connected workforce.
Fostering Diversity and Inclusion at Work
Building an inclusive and diverse culture enables better decisions, fosters creativity, improves productivity and drives better overall performance.
Everyone deserves to feel welcome, supported, and valued at work. When employees feel welcomed, accepted and feel their voices are heard, they are more satisfied and productive at work. Creating an inclusive environment starts with the cornerstones of openness, clear communications, diversity and respect.
This training focuses one helping employees and managers achieve an inclusive environment by raising awareness of the importance of seeing the world through the eyes of someone of a different age, race, gender, or other characteristics.
The goal is to create a workplace built on respect and courtesy and an appreciation of our differences.
This highly interactive training utilizes storytelling, facilitated discussion, and scenarios to help employees and managers build skills such as communicating more effectively with people from diverse backgrounds and modeling inclusive behavior.
The training also highlights how to avoid micro-aggressions and reduce levels of unconscious and implicit bias in decision-making and interactions.
Best Practices to Mitigating Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
Enable better, more objective decisions by understanding how to manage the distorted social stereotypes about certain groups of people. By addressing this unconscious bias, several benefits being to bear fruit including higher engagement, productivity, diverse thinking and attracting/retaining top talent.
Unconscious bias occurs when you make spontaneous judgments about people or situations based on your past experiences, culture, background, or exposure to media. It often manifests itself as an impression or gut feeling that shapes your perception, often in ways that are hard to articulate.
These hidden preferences or prejudices can affect nearly every decision you make. The real danger of unconscious bias is that it divides people into an us vs. them mentality.
The goal is to create a workplace built on respect and courtesy and an appreciation of our differences.
This highly interactive training utilizes storytelling, facilitated discussion, and scenarios to help employees and managers understand how unconscious bias can negatively influence their decision-making. Primary objective to raise consciousness about personal bias and how we all play a role in either perpetuating or dismantling biases at work.
Working to address specific areas around unconscious bias will lead to a more diverse, unified, and connected workforce that operates at its full potential.
Preventing Harassment and other Inappropriate Behavior at Work
Creating a safe environment for all employees is basic hygiene for any business and in many places, it’s the law. It is vital that all leaders be tooled up to foster a culture that does not tolerate sexual harassment and as part of that, they must understand how to detect, respond and handle instances of inappropriate behavior in the workplace.
TrainXtra’s sexual harassment prevention training helps managers develop the necessary skills to prevent sexual harassment, communicate the organization’s expectations about workplace conduct, recognize and respond to problematic behavior, and maintain an environment where employees are comfortable bringing forward concerns.
The goal is to create a workplace built on respect and courtesy and an appreciation of our differences.
TrainXtra offers courses for supervisor and nonsupervisory employees that meets all requirements of sexual harassment training laws set forth by California.
This highly interactive training utilizes storytelling, facilitated discussion, and scenarios to help employees and managers understand their role in preventing harassment, abusive conduct, and other inappropriate behavior at work.
The training includes information and practical guidance regarding federal and state laws concerning the prohibition against, and the prevention and correction of, sexual harassment and the remedies available to victims of sexual harassment.
The training also includes practical examples of harassment, discrimination, and retaliation, as well as information about preventing abusive conduct and harassment based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.
How to Effectively Interrupt Subtle Acts of Exclusion at Work
Fostering a customer-centric culture that drives long-term profits is dependent on tooling up employees to see the world through the eyes of people with a different age, race, gender, and other characteristics. Once employees are able to better connect with their customers, respect, courtesy and an appreciation of differences drives better, more sustainable performance.
Creating an inclusive environment starts with the cornerstones of openness, clear communications, diversity and respect. The training focuses on how to avoid subtle acts of exclusion/micro-aggressions and create workplace built on respect and courtesy and an appreciation of our differences.
This training focuses one helping participants achieve an inclusive environment by raising awareness of the importance of seeing the world through the eyes of someone of a different age, race, gender, or other characteristics.
This is a potentially divisive topic, and an effective training program that teaches your team how to address these issues through communication will go a long way in creating a healthy, productive, and civil workplace.
This highly interactive training utilizes storytelling, facilitated discussion, and scenarios to help employees and managers build skills such as communicating more effectively with people from diverse backgrounds and modeling inclusive behavior.
Ally Skills Training
The benefits of a culture that is welcoming, accepting, respecting and engaging is better company performance across the spectrum. Higher collaboration with and advocacy for minority and marginalized groups inside and outside of the workplace enables a better tooled workforce that can easily connect with customers and other stakeholders to drive long-term value.
Ally skills training prepares employees to better support, collaborate with and advocate for people from minority and marginalized groups inside and outside of the workplace. When employees feel welcomed, accepted and feel their voices are heard, they are more satisfied and productive at work. Creating an inclusive environment starts with the cornerstones of openness, clear communications, diversity and respect.
When most employees are confronted with the problems of discrimination, harassment, and other bad behavior at work, they assume that their job is limited to their own behavior. Allies take it a step further and see it as their responsibility to keep these behaviors from happening to anyone.
The goal is to create a workplace built on respect and courtesy and an appreciation of our differences.
This highly interactive training utilizes storytelling, facilitated discussion, and scenarios to help employees and managers build skills such as communicating more effectively with people from diverse backgrounds and modeling inclusive behavior.
The training provides concrete, actionable tools to empower employees and leaders to advocate for themselves and others.
The training provides practical tools to position people of all backgrounds, identities, and genders to successfully undertake allyship at work to foster healthy workplaces for all.
How to Handle Having Difficult Conversations at Work
Build synergy with different personality types to yield better balanced outcomes with customers, employees and other stakeholders. Once the dots are connected, your workforce can lever its strengths to better engage with each other and your diverse customer base.
Effective face-to-face communication can be challenging especially during these unprecedented times. There are certain conversations we all dread: the ones in which we must deliver bad news, discuss a sensitive topic, or talk about a something that’s gone wrong. Perhaps we cannot eliminate the stress entirely, but we can reduce it and approach the difficult conversation with more confidence.
This highly interactive training utilizes storytelling, facilitated discussion, and scenarios to help employees and managers build skills such as communicating more effectively with people from diverse backgrounds and modeling inclusive behavior.
In this course, you team will learn how to have difficult conversations, build their communication skills, and improve your relationships, teamwork, and business performance.
I’ll teach your team how to address these issues through communication will go a long way in creating a healthy, productive, and civil workplace.
One-on-One Sensitivity Training
One-on-one sensitivity training for managers is for those who have been accused of harassment or discriminatory remarks or have issues communicating with their staff. This training is to emphasize the role of workplace sensitivity and civility in promoting a respectful culture.
One-to-One customized training sessions offer an effective way to address unwelcome conduct which can lead to a hostile work environment.
The goal is to assist the employee in modifying behavior, provide tips and tools to improve credibility and to clarify what management expects of their conduct and their role in the Company.
I will customize a one-to-one sensitivity training session to directly address the circumstances which resulted in the need for training.
Active participation is encouraged to allow time for questions and to ensure participants understand the Company’s expectations moving forward to successfully achieve performance expectations.
Additional Courses available
ABUSIVE CONDUCT & BULLYING TRAINING
This training provides you with an overview on what constitutes workplace bullying, steps to identify and address workplace bullying behaviors, how to prevent it from happening, and how to correct if it happens again.
ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE WORKPLACE
This training teaches you to set expectations, improve employee performance, and ensure employee accountability. It encompasses job documentation, communicating expectations, and coaching employees to ensure success.
ANTI-DISCRIMINATION PREVENTION & EEO
This training examines the types of workplace conduct that are considered unlawful discrimination and harassment. It explains what employees should do to avoid or minimize incidents of employee discrimination and harassment in the workplace, including bullying.
HOW TO EFFECTIVELY CONDUCT WORKPLACE INVESTIGATIONS
Participants will learn step-by-step guidelines for investigating complaints and how to avoid legal pitfalls of investigations. They learn how to recognize workplace situations that require an investigation and how to develop an investigation plan. They learn how to collect and record evidence, the rights of the parties involved in an investigation, how to identify and interview the parties and witnesses, how to assemble statements, how to write a detailed and thorough report, and how to make recommendations about the next steps after investigations are complete.
MANAGING LEAVE OF ABSENCE & REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
This training will help your managers and supervisors understand compliance regulations and application. They will partner with HR in a timely fashion to effectively communicate the needs of employees’ medical leave and accommodations.
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
This training will teach managers how to identify performance problems and how to hold employees accountable to performance standards. It will give supervisors the tools and necessary practice on how to have difficult conversations and how to effectively coach employees in improving performance. Supervisors will also learn about the disciplinary process and proper documentation of performance details that will withstand legal scrutiny.
WORKPLACE VIOLENCE AND BULLYING PREVENTION
This course provides information for employees and supervisors. It focuses on recognizing behaviors that are considered workplace violence and how to prevent those behaviors from occurring and/or escalating.
Bias for Brilliance
Explore Bias for Brilliance, a three-part series with Matthew Cahill and Sejal Thakkar, to embark on a journey towards unlocking your startup’s full potential. This engaging 3-part learning experience that goes beyond theoretical concepts, providing actionable insights to shed light on the various biases that entrepreneurs may encounter on their journey and equip them with the knowledge to overcome these challenges.
Workshop Highlights:
• Interactive Sessions: The workshop incorporates interactive elements, encouraging participants to share their experiences and learn from one another.
• Real-world Case Studies: Matthew Cahill and I have curated real-world case studies that showcase how biases have impacted startup journeys. These stories serve as powerful lessons and inspire participants to proactively address biases within their own ventures.
• Practical Strategies: Beyond awareness, the workshop offers practical strategies for founders to mitigate bias. The goal is to equip participants with tools that can be directly applied to enhance the inclusivity of their entrepreneurial endeavors.
From Awareness to Action: Cultivating Neurodiversity with Katherine McCord
For too long, neurodivergent individuals have navigated a world that wasn’t built for them. They’ve been the square pegs trying to fit into round holes, often masking their true selves to blend into a neurotypical society.
Explore for From Awareness to Action: Cultivating Neurodiversity with Katherine McCord and Sejal Thakkar for an interactive workshop for leaders to empower them to create a more dynamic, innovative, and neuro-inclusive workplace that is well-equipped to meet the challenges of the modern business environment.
