Revamping Your DEI Playbook with Effective Employee Communications
Many companies have made commitments to increase the diversity of their employee populations and build pipelines of diverse talent . How this message is communicated to various audiences and channels, however, can either boost engagement or diminish support. Learn proven communication tips and tools that resonate across stakeholder groups and support inclusive cultures.
Learning Objectives:
- Speak to various stakeholder groups in language that resonates with them.
- Counter employee resistance to your diversity efforts.
- Incorporate culture-building principles when developing DEI strategy.
- Effectively engage executives as DEI ambassadors.
- Build empathy across audiences for underrepresented employee groups.
- Use technology to amplify your DEI message.
In-person session offerings are on a first-come, first-served basis.
Judy Ellis
As a DEI practitioner and organizational consultant, Judy leads strategic culture and diversity, equity, and inclusion transformations to build organizations where all employees thrive. For over 20 years, she has designed and delivered solutions for corporate, nonprofit and educational clients.
Judy leads the global DEI consulting practice of AMS (Alexander Mann Solutions), a Talent Acquisition and Workforce Solutions firm. She has designed diagnostic tools of end-to-end recruitment processes to foster inclusivity that she’s delivered for organizations including Barclays and Bristol Myers Squibb. She’s also developed DEI strategy, communication plans, career development frameworks and global training initiatives on Inclusive Leadership, Conscious Inclusion in Hiring, and Unconscious Bias for companies including Delta Airlines and MUFG. Prior to joining AMS, Judy led a certified Woman- and Minority-owned DEI consulting firm, Think People.
Judy serves as an Adjunct Instructor in Workforce Diversity at the University of Cincinnati ‘s Master’s in Applied Psychology Program. She has a B.S. in Management & Organizations from Indiana University's Kelly School of Business. She holds certificates in Diversity & Inclusion from Cornell University, and Coaching with the International Coaching Federation; she is a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory®. She has been named a “Top Diversity Officer” by the National Diversity Council. Her expertise in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has been featured in Forbes, DiversityQ magazine, the Recruiting Daily podcast and on numerous conference platforms, including SHRM’s Inclusion Conference.