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Session—"Strategic Men’s Engagement: A New Lever for Cultural Change"

In male-dominated sectors, efforts to evolve workplace culture often stall when men feel excluded or unsure how to engage. This session introduces strategic men’s engagement as a systems-based approach to inclusion, accountability, and leadership.

Drawing on real-world examples, including a recent corporate men’s circle pilot, we’ll explore how honest dialogue can shift resistance into engagement. Participants will examine how norms of masculinity shape organizational dynamics and learn tools to activate men as bridge builders and culture carriers—especially in the high-intensity environments of the DMV region.

Presenter: Sean Harvey

Sean Harvey, MSOD, MSEd, is the Founder of Warrior Compassion Institute, where he supports organizations to engage men differently to strengthen leaders, bridge divides, and humanize systems.

With 25+ years of experience as an OD practitioner, Sean works at the intersection of men’s healing, leadership, and systems change across sectors including law enforcement, tech, energy, finance, healthcare, and education. He recently launched From Circles to Systems, a mastermind supporting facilitators, coaches, and internal change agents to scale men’s engagement across organizations.

Sean is the co-founder of Project Compassion, a national initiative to deepen compassion in police departments, and previously served as Head of Personal Transformation and Wellbeing at EILEEN FISHER. He has held faculty roles at Cornell, NYU, and Baruch College, and currently teaches at American University. He received the 2021 Saul A. Silverman Award from IODA and was named a Top 15 Coach in Philadelphia in 2024 and 2025.