Breaking the Silence: Nyle DiMarco’s Vision for an Inclusive Future
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Opening remarks with Jim Link.
Join us in a world where communication transcends barriers, and inclusivity forms the cornerstone of progress. In this compelling closing keynote, Nyle DiMarco, a pioneering advocate for the Deaf community, will take you on a transformative journey toward a future where language and accessibility are woven into the fabric of our workplaces and society. As a visionary deaf leader who has broken through stereotypes and overcome obstacles, Nyle will inspire you to reimagine how we connect, communicate, and collaborate. Through powerful personal narratives and profound insights, Nyle will challenge you to examine your assumptions, embrace diverse viewpoints, and take actionable steps toward building a genuinely inclusive future.
Learning Outcomes:
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Discover how inclusive communication strategies can ignite creativity and drive collaboration within your organization.
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Acquire actionable techniques for enhancing workplace accessibility, ensuring everyone can thrive and contribute their best regardless of ability.
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Leave with a renewed commitment to championing inclusion and diversity, equipped with practical tools and strategies to spearhead meaningful change within your organization and beyond.
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Jim Link, Chief Human Resources Officer, SHRM-SCP
Jim Link is the CHRO for SHRM. With more than 340,000 members worldwide, SHRM is the largest HR professional association in the world and the leading voice for matters related to workers and the workplace.
Jim’s career includes roles of increasing responsibility across various industries and companies, including General Electric, the Pillsbury Company, Porsche Cars, and Randstad. In his most recent role as CHRO for Randstad North America, he led a global team of 150 HR professionals who were instrumental in transforming the company into an award-winning, inclusive, and sustainable global leader.
Jim has served as a volunteer leader in several organizations including the SHRM Foundation Board, the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank Human Capital Advisory Board, and the Human Resources Leadership Forum.
Jim holds undergraduate and master’s degree from Murray State University. Born and raised on a working family farm in western Kentucky, he currently resides in Atlanta and Alexandria, VA.
Jim is an adjunct instructor in the Executive MBA program at the University of Poznan (Poland) School of Economics and Business and the University of Liège (Belgium) Asia-Pacific campus in Taipei, Taiwan.
Nyle DiMarco
Nyle DiMarco, winner of Dancing with the Stars and America’s Next Top Model, empowers audiences to believe they can do and be anything they want in life, no matter the obstacle.
He won the mirror ball trophy on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars (season 22) and was the last model standing on The CW’s America’s Next Top Model (cycle 22), now Nyle is winning over audiences as an influential leader and ambassador for the deaf community.
Born into a multigenerational deaf family, he is an honorary spokesperson for Language Equality and Acquisition for Deaf Kids (LEAD-K) and founder of the Nyle DiMarco Foundation, which works to improve the lives of deaf people around the world. Nyle has produced the 2018 return to Broadway of Children of a Lesser God starring Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff. Nyle was also a creative collaborator on The ASL App, created by native deaf signers to teach conversational American Sign Language.
His debut book, Deaf Utopia: A Memoir and a Love Letter to a Way of Life (April 2022), tells of his upbringing and how it was utopian in that he was born into a fourth-generation deaf family. DiMarco was an executive producer on Netflix's Oscar-nominated short documentary, Audible (2021).
With a passion for language, literacy and advocacy within the deaf community and beyond, Nyle shares his barrier-breaking story as a deaf man who has risen above stereotypes to take the world by storm. Believing that his deafness is “an asset rather than a limitation,” he builds a bridge between the deaf and hearing by shining a light on not only the struggles, but also the triumphs of the deaf culture. Above all, Nyle shows audiences that with a sense of community, commitment to your goals, and belief in yourself, you can accomplish anything.