ERG Leadership: Strategy, Structure, and Sustainability

ERG Leadership: Strategy, Structure, and Sustainability
Published 11/2025
Duration: 1h 58m | .MP4 1280×720 30fps(r) | AAC, 44100Hz, 2ch | 2.07 GB

Lead ERGs with confidence using practical tools, real examples, and strategies that connect belonging to business impact

What you’ll learn
– Design a clear ERG structure-roles, responsibilities and terms-that reduces burnout and supports sustainability.
– Plan and run a balanced ERG program calendar that serves community, culture, career and business impact.
– Create inclusive allyship practices that welcome allies while protecting psychological safety for members.
– Use ERG frameworks like the Four Cs and maturity models to assess your ERG and plan its growth.
– Implement long-term strategies-leader support, recognition and transitions-to sustain your ERG over time.

Requirements
– No prior experience is required

Description
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) have moved from “nice to have” to strategic business drivers. In many large organizations, over 90% now host ERGs that shape culture, support underrepresented employees, and influence hiring, retention, and innovation. At the same time, most ERG leaders are volunteers with little training, no roadmap, and limited time, which leads to burnout, inconsistent impact, and groups that quietly stall out instead of thriving.

That’s exactly what this course is designed to help you with.

In this course, you’ll learn how to:

Design a sustainable structure for your ERG, including roles, responsibilities, leadership terms, and succession planning.

Plan and run programs that matter, covering community, culture, career, and business (“commerce”) instead of one-off events.

Invite and manage allies in ways that protect psychological safety while expanding your impact and reach.

Use data, surveys, and feedback loops to make better decisions, advocate for resources, and tell a compelling impact story.

Anticipate and respond to emerging trends, like mental health and neurodiversity ERGs, paid ERG leadership, and global ERG structures.

Prevent burnout, support ERG leaders, and build systems that keep your group healthy and active year after year.

Who this course is for:
– Current ERG leaders (chairs, co-chairs, committee leads) in any industry
– HR, People, and Talent professionals who sponsor or support ERGs
– DEI leaders and program managers responsible for an ERG portfolio
– Executive sponsors who want to better understand how to support ERG leaders
– Managers of ERG leaders who need to balance performance expectations with ERG responsibilities
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