Zip Code of Empowerment
REPEATED FROM MONDAY AT 1:30pm
Join leadership & empowerment expert Ashley T Brundage and Class Bias & DEI Expert CJ Gross for a one of a kind team presentation connecting our research called The Zip Code of Empowerment. This session will help your organization expand DEI to address more than just race but deeper understanding of class bias structure for all of your HR service functions. Together both award winning authors will loop the deep dive on how to drive empowerment faster through differences like socioeconomic class while teasing other effective ways to transform your organization.
Learning Objectives:
- Cultivate an inclusive workplace culture for all zip code stories.
- The business case for all kinds of difference of people with zip code stories.
- Strategies for hiring the first zip code story.
- Process of empowerment for address class bias.
- Strategic leadership actions to drive empowerment faster for socioeconomic class differences.
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Ashley T. Brundage
Ashley T. Brundage is the President and CEO of Empowering Differences. While seeking employment at PNC Bank in the United States, she identified openly during the interview process as a woman of transgender experiance and subsequently was hired after facing years of harassment, discrimination, and homelessness. These factors led her to start her second career as a means of survival while doing research on empowerment & differences. She took a role in the bank as a part time teller and then rose to national Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion in less than 5 years. She captured her research as a 4-Step process of empowerment to cultivate change in her new book and online leadership course. Ashley credits her success to those closest to her for providing actionable allyship including her 2 teenage sons, Bryce and Blake. She also volunteers her time serving numerous nonprofit organizations including serving as the vice chair for the national board of directors for GLAAD who works to accelerate acceptance across all forms of media for the LGBTQ+ community.
Christopher CJ Gross
Christopher “CJ” Gross is the author of the best-selling book What's Your Zip Code Story? Understanding and Overcoming Class Bias in the Workplace and the highly acclaimed Harvard Business Review article, A Better Approach to Mentorship. He is a TEDx Speaker and founder of Ascension Worldwide, a firm dedicated to DEI and cultural transformation consulting based in the Washington, D.C. area. CJ has 20-years of experience as an international organizational development consultant specializing in leadership development, and DEI transformation. CJ is a certified Social + Emotional Intelligence coach, trainer, Keirsey Temperament professional, and Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) Administrator.