Conference Sessions By Track
Track: I&D Strategy
The Illusion of Inclusion: Disability in Your Workforce, Workplace and Marketplace This session will help participants understand how to successfully and sustainably mainstream individuals with disabilities in their workplace. Monday, October 30, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT | |
The Three Big Chasms of New Diverse Leadership Discover how to work on the three key areas in today's leadership to make organizations grow and operate with success fully embracing DEI. Monday, October 30, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT | |
Inclusion in Tech - Strategies to Ensure Equity in A High-Growth Sector In a world where every company is in need of tech talent, attendees will learn root causes of representation gaps & practical solutions for inclusion. Monday, October 30, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM EDT | |
Leadership for All: Navigating the Challenges of a Diverse and Multigenerational Workforce Learn practical strategies for managing a diverse workforce, promoting inclusivity, and becoming a more effective leader. Monday, October 30, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM EDT | |
The Future of Work and Your Early Talent Pipeline Participants will learn how to build and cultivate the early talent pipeline and drive company-wide DEI outcomes through the power of belonging. Monday, October 30, 2023 | 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM EDT | |
Muddy Waters: Dissecting Equity, Compensation, and Performance Management in Nonprofits Understand where performance management, equity and compensation intersect and how to better align them within your talent management strategy. Monday, October 30, 2023 | 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM EDT | |
Second Chance Business Coalition Lessons, Best Practices and Resources for Your Workplace Gain firsthand knowledge of how to implement second chance hiring programs including resources for your workplace. Monday, October 30, 2023 | 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM EDT | |
Seven Proven Methods of Overcoming DEI Opposition This interactive session will help attendees to deliver seven proven methods for overcoming Diversity, Equity & Inclusion opposition. Monday, October 30, 2023 | 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM EDT | |
DEIB Is About More Than Talent: Expanding Into Total Reward Design How to design and implement a total rewards program with a diversity, equity, and inclusion framework. Monday, October 30, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM EDT | |
Does Your Company Have Ethical Agility? Do you? HR professionals know that ethics is foundational for good human resource management practices. Learn why. Monday, October 30, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM EDT | |
Attendees will learn to develop an inclusive talent management strategy, incorporating best practices to drive hiring & progression of diverse talent. Monday, October 30, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM EDT | |
Inclusive vs Exclusive Leadership: What Are You? Inclusive leadership is essential for creating a culture where employees feel valued that will take your team to the next level of performance. Monday, October 30, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM EDT | |
Keeping DEI Strong During Volatile Times Participants will learn 2-3 strategies to navigate turbulent times and make the case to keep DEI a valuable part of their organization. Monday, October 30, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM EDT | |
Redesigning Inclusion: The Three Critical Levers That Research Shows Drive Inclusion Learn the three critical attributes of a more inclusive culture and how to implement them at your organization. Monday, October 30, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM EDT | |
SPEAKER CANCELLED: Embedding Racial Equity into Your Business Strategy Learn how to engage and influence other partners in your organization to embed racial equity into your core business strategy, policies, and practices. Monday, October 30, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM EDT | |
Breaking Down the Numbers: The Cost of the Closet (The Business Case for LGBTQplus Inclusion) Attendees will come away with a better understanding of how NOT providing inclusive spaces for LGBTQ+ can be costing them significantly. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM EDT | |
Creating a High-Performance Culture: The Role of Company Culture in Driving Success Participants will learn the components of a successful company culture and what all high-performing teams have in common. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM EDT | |
The Inclusion Equation - Developing and Maintaining a Gender Identity Inclusive Workplace This session educates practitioners in actualization of a gender identity inclusive workplace and culture, marrying policy to cultural sensitivity. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM EDT | |
Know Thy Self - Empowering You to Assess Your Own Level of Inclusivity Take a self-assessment to learn your level of inclusion and about the behaviors of the most impactful leaders, based on our 30+ years of data. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 8:00 AM - 8:20 AM EDT | |
Diversity and Inclusion - Getting to BE CLEAR Attendees will learn the acronym to BE CLEAR in strategic efforts to successfully manage diversity and inclusion in their organizations. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM EDT | |
How to Foster Greater Synergy Between DEI and HR This program is to support building a stronger bridge between the HR and DEI functions within an organization. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT | |
It’s Not What You Think: Understanding Microaggressions as Identity-Based Trauma This session provides a new way to understand the important topic of microaggressions from the sender and receiver's point of view. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT | |
SPEAKER CANCELLED: Inspiring Bold Leadership and Creating Engaged Employees Corporate culture is passed down; understanding and supporting the next generation with healthy connections and courageous leadership is imperative. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 - Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT | |
The Four Lenses of Representation Understand the growing implication for companies as current-day inequities will be amplified with the future projections for excluded groups. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT | |
Transformational HR Leadership Principles attendees will revolutionize the process of becoming a Transformational HR Leader through discussion of principles and insight, which people can use to refine their leadership skills no matter what profession they are working in. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT | |
The Empathy Advantage: Building Success in Today’s Competitive Talent Market Discover why empathy matters and how to measure and embed it in your organization. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM EDT | |
A New Kind of Diversity in HR: Making the Different Generations on Your Team an Advantage Attendees will leave with defined principles and practices they can with their organization immediately. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT | |
Embedding Equity, Inclusion & Belonging into the Core Business Strategy Attendees will learn about the importance of weaving EI&B into business objectives to drive systemic impact and fuel growth in their organizations. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT | |
Exclusion Through Inclusion: Unintended Consequences of DEIBA This session will challenge attendees to assess DEIBA initiatives for actual or perceived risk and craft proactive tips for enhancing inclusion. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT | |
Six Opportunities to Transform the Workplace Through Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging The attendees will learn about six major areas of opportunity for businesses looking to advance DEIB in their organizations. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM EDT | |
Authentic Conversations: Navigating Transgender Expansive (TGX) Inclusion in the Workplace Participants will leave this presentation with methods for creating an inclusive workplace for Transgender expansive (TGX) employees. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EDT | |
Building a Sustainable DEIB Strategy: Let's Get to Work! A (DEIB) strategy helps organizations attract/retain top talent and ignite performance by creating an inclusive, equitable, and sustainable culture. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EDT | |
Participants will be better able to describe ILO C190 and how it is being used by employers, workers and governments to improve efforts to prevent and address gender-based violence and harassment in the world of work, including sexual harassment and apply that knowledge in their own work. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EDT | |
Bringing One's Whole Self to Work: Faith in the Workplace Attendees will be able to create spaces at work where conversations among employees about faith are respectful, safe, and enlightening. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM EDT | |
Building an Inclusive Culture and Better Results from Concept to Continuity This interactive, strategic session addresses how to implement inclusion as an operational process to transform culture and improve results. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM EDT | |
Equity in Action: How to Operationalize Fairness in the Workplace Attendees will be able to utilize a framework and template to implement equity into their day-to-day operations. Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM EDT | |
Unlocking Growth: The ROI of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM EDT | |
Develop Tomorrow's Leaders: Maximizing the Performance of Today's Young Professionals Learn how to develop and retain your future leaders using research from today's young professionals. Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM EDT | |
Healing the Human Brain and Tolerance Attendees will learn how to get widespread support for your DEI initiative by showing everyone how devastating INTOLERANCE is to the brain. Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM EDT | |
Intergenerational Communications: How to Build Better Leaders and Ensure Strategic Success We will discuss what we have learned from previous leadership styles to prepare future leaders. Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM EDT | |
Is HR the Solution to DEI’s Problems? Attendees will learn to rethink and then reframe their role in HR as it relates to DEI. Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM EDT | |
What Gets Measured, Gets Done: Measuring Success in Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility Attendees will learn how to properly measure the diversity of their workforce, the inclusion of their workplace, and the ROI of their D&I investment. Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM EDT | |
How to Navigate Pay Equity and Maintain a Business Legacy to be Proud of Attendees will learn the most common pitfalls to avoid when addressing workplace pay gaps and pay inequity. Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT | |
Metrics that Matter: Using Data to Drive Your DEI Strategy This presentation will teach participants what data to collect, how to collect it, and how to analyze it effectively in preparation for the creation of an effective DEI strategy. Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT | |
Unleash the Power of a Multigenerational Workforce and Confront Ageism Confront ageism and create a work environment where all generations thrive! Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT |