Empowering Differences
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Empowering Differences is the intentional action of using power and authority for yourself or others while positioning ways in which you are not the same as the people around you. Leveraging differences, what makes you unique, to empower yourself and others to make real change happen. Founded as a 4-Step Process of Empowerment, Ashley T. Brundage will cover how to use these steps as well as preview how to create Empowering Actions within your organization as the final step. Connecting Ashley's 8 years of research on the 10 most common differences aligned to the 10 Empowering Actions will create a domino effect for all of your teams to seek out empowerment.
Ashley also will interweave a portion of her personal story in overcoming harassment, discrimination and homelessness as an out trans woman to gain employment as part time associate then to VP of DEI at PNC bank in 4 years.
Learning Objectives:
- Navigation and distinction of Authority & Power Items of Empowerment.
- Connection of DEI through empowerment of people without leading with DEI branding problem.
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.