DEI Micro-Climates – Developing Work Teams with Inclusive Cultures
As a people manager, building an inclusive team culture is key. More important for employee engagement than firmwide DEI Vision or Strategy is the micro-climate on individual teams. Manager behavior is the #1 predictor of employees’ sense of inclusion—and the #1 factor in attrition. While you may be confident in your delivery against business goals, creating a cohesive team where everyone flourishes and contributes their best can be challenging, especially when teams are increasingly geographically dispersed.
Learning Objectives:
- Insights from latest research to combat employee attrition.
- Team-based practices to build an inclusive climate
- “Leading outward’ to ensure team members are treated fairly, empowered and can flourish
- “Leading inward’ to evaluate your inner ability to lead, act courageously, and self-reflect
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.