Ameren offers a free video series, The Courage to Evolve and Grow, designed to make dialogue about diversity, equity and inclusion easier and more comfortable. Conversations like this take courage—the courage to evolve and grow. We want community organizations, businesses and other groups to use these tools to engage their teams in conversations about how leading with courage makes a difference for yourself and others.
These videos showcase personal stories from Ameren co-workers who speak about gathering the courage to grow as individuals despite challenges, and how this approach impacted their lives both inside and outside of work.
Focus: Focuses on the experiences of two co-workers who are sharing experiences that demonstrate how we can learn to create extraordinary moments in our life and work.
Focus: Focuses on how words and actions have impacted a person with a disability and how to prevail and push through in order to move forward.
Focus: Focuses on two co-workers, who after going through life changing experiences, demonstrate the courage to evolve and grow by sharing their stories as gathering points to help spread awareness about PTSD and to break misconceptions and misunderstandings that arise from time-to-time related to PTSD.
Focus: Focuses on the experience of one co-worker who reexamines life through a clearer lens by overcoming blind spots and embracing his present situation.
Review the video series Ameren introduced in 2021 to increase the comfort level of being involved in sometimes difficult dialogues involving diversity and inclusion. The video topics include: The Essence of Who You are, Real-Life for Caregivers, Following my Dream, Modeling our Behavior, Unity is Full of Diversity, Heart to Serve our Community, Time to Understand, Personal Power and Possibilities.
Review the video series Ameren introduced in 2020 to increase the comfort level of being involved in sometimes difficult dialogues involving diversity and inclusion. The video topics include: Women in the Workplace, Shifting the Conversation, Everyone's Walk is Different, I Just Smiled and Said Hello.
Review the video series Ameren introduced in 2019 to increase the comfort level of being involved in sometimes difficult dialogues involving diversity and inclusion. The video topics include: Stepping Forward for Understanding, Courage to Let Go of the Familiar, and Caring Comes From Courage.
Review the video series Ameren introduced in 2018 to increase the comfort level of being involved in sometimes difficult dialogues involving diversity and inclusion. The video topics include: Stepping Out of Our Comfort Zone and The Courage to Say the First Word
Review the video series Ameren introduced in 2017 to increase the comfort level of being involved in sometimes difficult dialogues involving diversity and inclusion. The video topics include: Courage Beyond What We See, 100 Years of Courage, The Courage to Soar, and The Courage to Win Together.
Review the video series Ameren introduced in 2017 to increase the comfort level of being involved in sometimes difficult dialogues involving diversity and inclusion. The video topics include: Reading Between the Lines, Teaching for Inclusion, What Respect Looks Like, The Psychology of Race, and What is Possible.
Incidents involving racial injustices have drawn widespread national and local attention. These videos focus on equipping leaders with tools and techniques to have positive, open and respectful dialogue with teams and co-workers about what could be very sensitive issues.
This video focuses on equipping leaders with tools and techniques to help navigate conversations involving culturally sensitive topics.
In this video one leader shares his perspective about the importance of starting the dialogue and how he did it with his team.
The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) Leaders Academy program is designed to inspire and develop DE&I Leaders. The program provides a significant developmental experience that fully engages our DE&I Leaders to further their leadership skills at Ameren.
Leaders Academy Overview (PDF)
License Application Form (PDF)
Ameren is introducing a free computer-based training (CBT) tool. Inclusive Leadership: Creating a Culture of Respect and Creative Solutions provides line of sight to what skills and behaviors are important to demonstrate in order to foster inclusion within teams. This developmental tool provides participants the opportunity to gain a better understanding of how to promote an environment where all team members feel valued and appreciated.
We encourage community organizations, businesses and other groups to use this CBT to effectively model core behaviors linked to inclusion and encourage collaboration within teams. This developmental opportunity will help participants maneuver their career more effectively and engage in meaningful interactions within the workplace and in the community.