Embracing Change: Four Assets of Inclusive Leadership in the Hybrid Environment
Embracing Change1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
Change is the only constant in life. The workplace is not immune. Leaders at all levels need to enable their organization to develop a culture that embraces change as a dynamic force of innovation creating the ultimate business advantage. In this workshop, you will discover your potential for becoming an “embracer of change.” We will explore the four change assets that you already possess, which are necessary to lead an inclusive and engaging team to realizing massive achievements. With the Change Response Measure™ (CRM™) benchmarks, you will assess your change potential and identify a roadmap to becoming an active participant and a dynamic force for growth. Participants will: ● Understand the four ways people respond to change and which one is your default response. ● Explore the connection between inclusivity and change as a leader. ● Build new perspectives and awareness about self in relation to change concepts and how this impacts leadership capabilities. ● Implement immediate action steps as an inclusive leader through transformational change initiatives.
Participants will:
- Understand the four ways people respond to change and which one is your default response.
- Explore the connection between inclusivity and change as a leader.
- Build new perspectives and awareness about self in relation to change concepts and how this impacts leadership capabilities.
- Implement immediate action steps as an inclusive leader through transformational change initiatives.
Non-Partner (Non-Profit): $569
Partner: $449 to $539


Facilitator
Karen Keller, Ph.D.
CEO and Founder
Keller Institute
Wellness in the Workplace: Post-Pandemic Management of Mental Health
Wellness in the Workplace1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
During the height of the pandemic, grief, loss, and fear were the predominate feelings that for many are still unresolved. Despite the nation’s efforts to reintroduce normalcy, the way we live and do business has forever been changed. As the nation rebuilds and recovers, the need for employers to develop trauma-informed policies and procedures will be imperative to the success of their wellness, productivity, and engagement. This workshop will focus on post-pandemic management of mental health and policy-driven responses to support employees experiencing post-COVID stress. Participants will: ● Understand the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on employees and organizational leaders. ● Explore the role of wellness and how this impacts workplace performance. ● Learn to identify trauma-informed policies and procedures within their organization. ● Develop a plan of support to assist employees returning to the work environment post-pandemic.
Participants will:
- Understand the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on America’s mental health.
- Explore how mental illness impacts one’s ability to function.
- Learn to identify signs of mental health issues in employees and how to intervene.
- Develop a plan of support to assist employees returning to the work environment post-pandemic.
Non-Partner (Non-Profit): $569
Partner: $449 to $539


Facilitator
Stacy Speedlin Gonzalez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Practice, Department of Counseling
The University of Texas at San Antonio
The Influence Mindset: The Need for Influential Women in Every Organization
The Influence Mindset1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
Women have an extraordinary capacity to impact or influence themselves, others, and their environment. They understand the importance of influence in leading, overcoming challenges, and creating a high performing workspace. This workshop will take a deep dive into how women can utilize their natural influence traits when building strong companies, exceptional leadership capabilities, and teams that are highly productive. You will learn how influence can be a game-changer at work. Participants will: ● Benchmark the Seven Influence Traits® that are critical for becoming influential. ● Understand how the Seven Influence Traits® impact how you show up in the Five Organizational Competencies™. ● Gain valuable insights into being an influential woman at work and in all aspects of life while identifying the difference between influence, persuasion, manipulation, and negotiation. ● Implement a mini-influence action plan designed to get you started quickly.
Participants will:
- Benchmark the Seven Influence Traits® that are critical for becoming influential.
- Understand how the Seven Influence Traits® impact how you show up in the Five Organizational Competencies™.
- Gain valuable insights into being an influential woman at work and in all aspects of life while identifying the difference between influence, persuasion, manipulation, and negotiation.
- Implement a mini-influence action plan designed to get you started quickly.
Non-Partner (Non-Profit): $569
Partner: $449 to $539


Facilitator
Karen Keller, Ph.D.
CEO and Founder
Keller Institute
Interrupting Unconscious Bias: Raising Social Awareness and Fostering Inclusive Workplaces
Interrupting Unconscious Bias1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
We all have unconscious biases. They help us establish a sense of security, but they can also exclude, isolate, and marginalize others, damaging workplace relations and everyday business. This workshop helps us identify our own and others’ harmful biases, situate them within a greater social and cultural understanding of systemic inequality, and foster strategies for interrupting them to better ourselves, our workplace, and our society. Participants will: ● Define unconscious bias, its relationship to broader systemic inequities and impact in the workplace. ● Raise awareness of how our background and identity shape our biases. ● Identify strategies to address microaggressions at work and create inclusive cultural change. ● Identify strategies to reduce harmful biases in hiring, career development, and team dynamics.
Participants will:
- Define unconscious bias, its relationship to broader systemic inequities and impact in the workplace.
- Raise awareness of how our background and identity shape our biases.
- Identify strategies to address microaggressions at work and create inclusive cultural change.
- Identify strategies to reduce harmful biases in hiring, career development, and team dynamics.
Non-Partner (Non-Profit): $569
Partner: $449 to $539


Facilitator
Luzilda Carrillo Arciniega, Ph.D.
Director, Diversity Strategies & Implementation
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
LGBTQ Diversity in the Workplace and Marketplace: Strategy and Execution
LGBTQ Diversity1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
As the acceptance of LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) people and their economic power continues to climb, fully understanding and embracing LGBTQ diversity is truly a critical business and organizational imperative. This workshop outlines the compelling rationale for all organizations to fully embrace LGBTQ inclusion and to build the business case. It explores the many policies and programs to implement, including a deep dive into the transgender and gender transition areas. Participants will: ● Articulate the compelling business rationale for fully supporting LGBTQ+ diversity. ● Understand the wide range of policies and procedures to support an LGBTQ+ diversity and inclusion strategy. ● Gain a deeper understanding of transgender people and the process of gender transitioning. ● Leave with practical ideas of how to address various LGBTQ situations that may arise in the workplace.
Participants will:
- Articulate the compelling business rationale for fully supporting LGBTQ+ diversity.
- Understand the wide range of policies and procedures to support an LGBTQ+ diversity and inclusion strategy.
- Gain a deeper understanding of transgender people and the process of gender transitioning.
- Leave with practical ideas of how to address various LGBTQ situations that may arise in the workplace.
Non-Partner (Non-Profit): $569
Partner: $449 to $539


Facilitator
Stan Kimer
President and Owner
Total Engagement Consulting
The Power of BIPOC: Creating Your Pathway to Belonging at Work
The Power of BIPOC1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
The burden of feeling misunderstood, and in some cases unappreciated, prevents people from bringing their whole self to work. This has a direct effect on engagement, productivity, innovation, and self-esteem. In this workshop, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) will revitalize their feeling of belonging. We will explore the mindset and actions needed to change one’s own situation at work and turn it into a more positive experience to be part of organizational change. We will go through a journey of empowerment and inspiration while creating a pathway to discovery. This is resilience in action. Participants will: ● Feel inspired to bring their whole authentic self to work and be confident about the value they bring to their organization. ● Identify actions that can help them transform painful experiences into powerful discoveries. ● Get in touch with the power within to change situations or start important conversations that render the workplace experience more fulfilling and complete. ● Define actionable items at the personal, team, and organizational level.
Participants will:
- Feel inspired to bring their whole authentic self to work and be confident about the value they bring to their organization.
- Identify actions that can help them transform painful experiences into powerful discoveries.
- Get in touch with the power within to change situations or start important conversations that render the workplace experience more fulfilling and complete.
- Define actionable items at the personal, team, and organizational level.
Non-Partner (Non-Profit): $569
Partner: $449 to $539


Facilitator
Hanadi Chehabeddine
Inclusion Coach
Hanadi SBC
Inclusive Recruiting: The Why and the How
Inclusive Recruiting1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
The key to leveraging diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace is to start at the beginning – attracting and hiring diverse talent. As the talent pool both domestically and globally becomes more diverse, it is critical that all organizations across all sectors step up their inclusive recruiting. This workshop will start with understanding the compelling business case for focusing on inclusive recruiting, then moving to building a strategy with a logical approach to implementation of inclusive recruiting techniques. A deep dive on how unconscious bias directly impacts inclusive recruiting will be covered as well as techniques to mitigate unconscious bias in recruiting. Participants will: ● Be able to articulate the compelling business rationale for investing in inclusive recruiting. ● Understand the key components of an inclusive recruiting strategy. ● Explore unconscious bias as the major roadblock to inclusive recruiting and how to mitigate it. ● Gain the tools to build a cohesive strategy – including practical, innovative, and impactful best practices – leading to effective execution of inclusive recruiting.
Participants will:
- Be able to articulate the compelling business rationale for investing in inclusive recruiting.
- Understand the key components of an inclusive recruiting strategy.
- Explore unconscious bias as the major roadblock to inclusive recruiting and how to mitigate it.
- Gain the tools to build a cohesive strategy – including practical, innovative, and impactful best practices – leading to effective execution of inclusive recruiting.
Non-Partner (Non-Profit): $569
Partner: $449 to $539


Facilitator
Stan Kimer
President and Owner
Total Engagement Consulting
Inclusive Leadership: What Happens at the Intersection of Self-Awareness, Trust, and Performance
Inclusive Leadership1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
This workshop takes participants into a guided journey to inclusive leadership by having a greater understanding of self-awareness while leveraging specific competencies to intentionally create and maintain an inclusive team. It highlights the power of influence and trust as leaders match inclusive words that are confirmed with inclusive behaviors. It offers guidance to vision opportunities to inspire creativity, instill trust, and strategically focus on team inclusion and performance. Participants will: ● Become aware of ways to mitigate personal and organizational biases. ● Understand the importance of emotional intelligence in creating and maintaining inclusive teams. ● Identify strategies to implement inclusive language and action to form a high-performing team. ● Recognize key leadership characteristics to promote inclusive workplaces, even in the face of opposition.
Participants will:
- Become aware of ways to mitigate personal and organizational biases.
- Understand the importance of emotional intelligence in creating and maintaining inclusive teams.
- Identify strategies to implement inclusive language and action to form a high-performing team.
- Recognize key leadership characteristics to promote inclusive workplaces, even in the face of opposition.
Non-Partner (Non-Profit): $569
Partner: $449 to $539


Facilitator
Sandy Harvey
Founder and President
Exodus Consulting Group
Generations in the Workplace: Understanding Differences and Achieving Common Ground
Generations in the Workplace1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
Our environment shapes us as individuals but does not determine who we are. In this workshop, participants will learn the common explanations for generational differences and how to leverage this understanding for creating inclusive workplaces. We will situate differences across Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z in historic social norms and political and economic contexts. We will also explore the dangers of creating stereotypes along age and the complexities generated by differences across other diversity dimensions including race, gender, class, and sexuality. This workshop will inevitably ask: Are there more differences or similarities across age? How can we use this awareness to foster inclusive workplaces? Participants will: ● Examine the structural economic, political, and social reasons attributed to generational differences. ● Understand how generational stereotypes harm attempts to create inclusive workplaces. ● Identify ways to encourage productive and inclusive intergenerational collaboration at work. ● Design workplace practices, processes, and norms that are inclusive of various dimensions of diversity including age, race, gender, sexuality, and class.
Participants will:
- Examine the structural economic, political, and social reasons attributed to generational differences.
- Understand how generational stereotypes harm attempts to create inclusive workplaces.
- Identify ways to encourage productive and inclusive intergenerational collaboration at work.
- Design workplace practices, processes, and norms that are inclusive of various dimensions of diversity including age, race, gender, sexuality, and class.
Non-Partner (Non-Profit): $569
Partner: $449 to $539


Facilitator
Luzilda Carrillo Arciniega, Ph.D.
Director, Diversity Strategies & Implementation
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Allyship: Lifting all Voices in the Organization
DEI Allyship1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)
DEI allyship in the workplace conjoins social justice, inclusion, and human rights to raise awareness of privilege and the lived experiences of underrepresented groups and individuals. The intended purpose of allyship work is to increase awareness for informed DEI support and action. Effective allies practice intuitive listening to effectively connect and collaborate with people who feel invisible or silenced. They also actively work to see and replace systemic oppressive organizational artifacts with diversity, equity, and inclusion practices that recognize and lift all voices to be their highest and best. Participants will: ● Learn the principles and skills of intuitive listening while gaining deeper clarity and understanding of key DEI and allyship terminology. ● Learn and practice how to give and receive hard to hear feedback with people of difference. ● Gain insight on how to increase awareness of systems of exclusion and oppression while developing strategies to create equitable systems for all to thrive. ● Become more aware and effective on how to use yourself as the instrument of systemic change.
Participants will:
- Learn the principles and skills of intuitive listening while gaining deeper clarity and understanding of key DEI and allyship terminology.
- Learn and practice how to give and receive hard to hear feedback with people of difference.
- Gain insight on how to increase awareness of systems of exclusion and oppression while developing strategies to create equitable systems for all to thrive.
- Become more aware and effective on how to use yourself as the instrument of systemic change.
Non-Partner (Non-Profit): $569
Partner: $449 to $539


Facilitator
Al Sullivan
President
Inspirus Consulting