Join us to celebrate Black History Month at work!
HELM Life's Black History Month programming is innovative, interesting and fun - whether you're hosting remote or hybrid teams - we've likely got some programming that your teams will love.
New for 2025 - The Intersection of AI and DEI
Black Labor at the Dawn of New Eras
Love it or hate it, AI is here. Speaking to the 2025 Black History Month theme "African Americans and Labor", this 1-hour Interactive Learning Event brings your teams together to consider technological leaps through the ages, the Black technologists at the forefront of those changes and looks into the future to discuss the potential impacts of AI on people, the environment, careers and industries. An inclusive conversation geared to general audiences helps us to explore the changes that AI may bring and how to best prepare for them.
Play an Organization-wide MicroLearning Challenge
Launch the challenge by sharing a link - participants find the hidden words, learn new things and test their new knowledge against their teammates on the Leaderboard!
Celebrate Black History Month with a Professional Development Program
ERG-led Professional Development
The world, workplaces, jobs and industries will all see big changes with the introduction of broadly-applicable AI Tools - including Co-Pilot, Gemini and ChatGPT - and the integration of AI into many new products and services that we use. Getting familiar with these new technologies will be crucial to the next stage of career growth. Let's work together on ERG-led professional development to grow our expertise wth AI Tools in the workplace.
Celebrate Black Art and Culture with a MicroLearning Challenge
Launch the challenge by sharing a link - participants find the hidden words, learn new things and test their new knowledge against their teammates on the Leaderboard!
Host an event to Learn about History or Pop Culture:
HELM Life works with experts to bring their knowledge & research to the corporate setting - in a fun and engaging way!
Black Americans through History
Brush up on your knowledge of Robert Abbott and the Chicago Defender, Dr.
Mary McLeod Bethune, Booker T. Washington and Dr. Mae Jemison, and dive deeper into the history of
HBCUs, while solving puzzles and researching with your team!
BHM: Pop Culture Edition
Ready to go?! You're off on a cross-country road trip with a car-full of
friends. Will you hit up Altanta or Houston ? The early rap-scene in NYC? Williams-sister sports and
fashion in LA? The history of Motown in Detroit? This Choose-your-own Road Trip is a carload of fun!
Movies, Music, Media!
This gameshow-style event runs for an hour and hosts up to 80 participants! A little bit of gameshow and a little bit of group chat, it brings your teams together socially to get to know each other and reminisce about their fave shows and music of the 80's, 90's and 2000's!
What's an Interactive Learning Event?
They're part research, part puzzle, part learning and part fun! In partnership with Turner Consulting Group in Canada and The Equity Equation in the United States, HELM Life is proud to be helping teams learn together.
HELM Life's MicroLearning Programming is easy to set up.
We've cracked the code to memorable, interesting and fun DEI Learning. Here's how to set it up:
Do the quick set up
Once you request an event, HELM Life Life provides a link to the game page and all of the content that you'll need to advertise the game. It even comes with a countdown clock until the event starts!
Sample Landing Page
Create some hype
Use HELM Life's pre-written share assets, images and blurbs to tell people about the event. These assets double as heritage month Internal Communications posts for Slack, Sharepoint and newsletters.
Sample Comms Assets
Play the Game!
MicroLearnings only take 10 minutes to play, include interesting and accessible content. The word search teaches new infomation and the quiz asks about what they just learned. There's also a Top Scores page!
Sample Top ScoresHow do you run a MicroLearning Challenge? Good question!
Great question - here's what it looks like! Teams run MicroLearning Challenges for a day, a week or a month and often give prizes to the winners at the end!
Invite Colleagues to an Infosession!
Thinking about booking a speaker? We work with some amazing people!
We work with amazing speakers! Academics, historians, entrepreneurs and people with amazing personal journeys! Our emcee hosts the call for a 30-minute talk + a 15 minute Q&A that you won't forget!
Genesis Rivera
We are excited to welcome Genesis Rivera in a talk called Black Labor in Focus: Innovation, Equity, and Collective Empowerment. Drawing from the rich legacy of those who have put in the work, Genesis will discuss the potential for hope to spark innovation as well as reinventing ourselves and our strategies in the face of challenges.
Dr. Xach Williams
We are excited to welcome Dr. R. Xach Williams in a talk about Democracy & Voting Rights (then & now). Dr. Xach sets the scene by discussing Carter G. Woodson and the founding of Black history month, then touches on Black resistance to the anti-democractic practices of racism and segregation and includes information about James Meredith, Septima P. Clark, & Rosa Parks.
Masika Mahabir
Immerse your organization in Shades of Black Identity — a transformative Black History Month event that explores the complexities of the Black experience in the workplace and beyond. This talk delves into often-unspoken topics, such as colorism, featurism, code-switching, and the question of who is Black. It's an opportunity to spark meaningful conversations, challenge assumptions, and celebrate the diversity within Black identity.
Here's why teams choose HELM Life programming:
We work with Amazing Hosts!
Although HELM Life can host up to 200 participants per event - all of the fun learning is done in breakout rooms of 6-8. Each group is hosted by one of our talented facilitators, to support teams in their learning and to make sure that everyone has a great time!
Easy to Organize
All HELM Life Learning Events fit within a 1-hour calendar block. They're led by our event emcees and are easy to plan, well-researched and fun to do - organizers simply need to get teams to their link, and we'll take over from there! We'll also set you up with: share images, a blurb to share, a calendar invite and a registration page to share with your teams!
Donation Included
All HELM Life Learning Events include a donation to an organization working to address the systemic inequalities we'll be learning about and working towards change supporting the community.
Partners
We're proud to have partnered with experts in the diversity, equity and inclusion space - leaders with over 20 years experience in bringing about the change that we need to see in the world.
Tana Turner, B.A. (Psych), B.A. (Soc), M.A. (Soc)
