Beyond Awareness: Actionable Strategies for Disability-Inclusive Recruitment
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Move beyond awareness and unlock your talent processes. This workshop equips talent professionals with actionable strategies, informed by leading practices gleaned from building disability-inclusive frameworks and training for global companies. Learn proven steps to create accessible application processes, understand digital accessibility best practices, and attract top talent from a diverse pool. Gain practical tools for a thriving, inclusive workplace.
Learning Objectives:
- Implement proven steps to create accessible application processes and understand digital accessibility best practices.
- Develop actionable strategies for building a disability-inclusive recruitment process from attraction through onboarding, informed by leading practices used by global companies.
- Utilize practical tools to overcome common challenges, including ableism, and foster a thriving, inclusive workplace.
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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.