Four Days to Change: 12 Radical Habits to Overcome Bias and Thrive in a Diverse World

Organizations that get diversity right reap tremendous benefits that ripple across the company culture and eventually lead to an indisputable impact on the bottom line. But robust, resilient diversity in the workplace thrives only when members of the majority group actively educate and challenge each other. Based on twenty years of pioneering workshops engaging white male leaders in transforming their own mindsets, building leadership skills, and creating powerful partnerships at work and at home, Four Days to Change follows a group of men embarking in a life-changing process to broaden their view of the world and lead them into more authentic relationships across race, gender, and sexual orientation. Witness the kinds of conversations that have opened the eyes of thousands of white male leaders, freeing them to benefit from more inclusive, authentic partnerships in the workplace and at home.

Michael Welp, Ph.D., is the co-founder of White Men As Full Diversity Partners. He is known for his authenticity, his trust-building style, and his success in using diversity as a source of transformation. In 1990, Michael spent a year in South Africa facilitating interracial team-building for over a dozen South African corporations. In 1996, he conducted groundbreaking research on how white men learn about diversity. This research highlighted the need for new ways to engage white men, leading Michael to cofound WMFDP the following year.

For thirty years, Michael has worked extensively with leadership teams in numerous organizations to grow leadership skills, transform conflict, and develop innovative approaches to diversity and inclusion. Michael has designed and taught graduate courses for a number of universities and is a blogger for Catalyst s Men Advocating Real Change (MARC), an online learning community for professionals committed to achieving equality in the workplace. He has also coauthored three field guides on skill-building for leadership and diversity partnerships. Earlier in his career, Michael learned to design and facilitate experiential learning as an Outward Bound Instructor while leading canoeing, backpacking, and dogsledding expeditions. Today he lives in the mountainous lake town of Sandpoint, Idaho, with his two daughters.