How to Accelerate Diversity and Inclusion in Your Learning and Development Strategy
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Diversity, inclusion and belonging has become a global business imperative. Yet the topic and its solutions are significantly nuanced based on systemic challenges, outdated workplace cultures, and a historical lack of representation and advancement for members of underrepresented groups.
Research shows that companies with inclusive cultures are 8x more likely to achieve better outcomes. How can organizations accelerate their diversity objectives while the culture is undergoing inclusive transformation? This session will explore strategic approaches for the learning and development ecosystem.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the strategic ways learning and development can help drive diversity and inclusion.
- Discover tangile methods to increase growth and engagement across all employee populations.
- Gain insight into 1 or 2 case studies and examples of success.
Sponsored by CoachHub
Lisa J. Tomlin
Lisa's professional energy and passion is driven by a desire and commitment to help leaders-at-all levels, teams, and organizations perform at their highest level in order to remain competitive and relevant in an ever-changing, and challenging, global business ecosystem.
As a Senior Behavioral Scientist at CoachHub, Lisa leads research initiatives, solutions development, and client partnerships in the diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging practice area. Her goal is to help companies drive change and transform by building, and sustaining, inclusive cultures while creating a diverse workplace.
Lisa's career has included leadership roles in every aspect of talent development: career development, talent acquisition, employee engagement, leadership development, and executive coaching. She has worked for notable organizations such as Carnegie Mellon University, Barclays, and Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH). At CoachHub she is focused on the design of global coaching solutions, deployed at scale, which accelerates the career advancement and promotion of underrepresented groups through inclusion and belonging strategies. She enjoys this work. Lisa thrives from providing her clients with insights and metrics which allows them to integrate her solutions into their broader learning and development strategy.
She is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and a graduate of Oberlin College. She obtained her Master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Rutgers University. She loves to hike, kayak and volunteer at the animal shelter. Lisa is also an advocate for adults with disabilities.
