Topics to be Addressed April 15 – April 16, 2008

As businesses increasingly recognize that "Diversity as Business" is a sustainable strategy and vision, efforts are needed to delve deeper into executing what we have learned. New challenges provide the opportunities for new directions, new learning, and new initiatives to realize sustabinable advantages for all organizations, their people, processes, and operations.

In these practical conferences, you will learn with your peers from the following tracks:

• Strategic Planning: Examine strategies and models for reframing your diversity business goals
• Tools & Initiatives: Assess measurement tools to determine the effectiveness of your training, resource groups, mentoring, governance models, and partnerships
• Challenges & Issues: Apply best practices to your own organization for customization to your culture and global needs

Agenda Highlights Include

• Turning Thought Into Action: What Does It Require? Strategic Planning
• "Vectors": The Universal Language For Inclusion
• Addressing the Talent Shortage—Leveraging the Public Workforce System as a Diverse Recruiting Source
• Covance and Care Partner on Rwanda, Africa Early Childhood Development Initiative
• Jump Starting Your Diversity Efforts Through People, Work, Ideas, and Relationships
• Latino Perspectives: Reflections on Branding and Inclusion
• Get Coached: Igniting the Potential of Asian Talent
• Continuing the Journey: Diversity — Inclusion — Engagement
• Leadership Growth through Diversity, Inclusion, and Cultural Competence
• Disabilities: Inclusion or Illusion (The Business Case)
• After Maturity, What's Next?
• Integrating Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Within Your Workplace
• Faith at Work: Values, Virtues and Vices
• Developing Positive Images as an "Employer of Choice"
• Models of Higher Education & Diversity: Creating Pipelines of Talent — Challenges & Issues
• "Talent Management Redux: Creating a Diverse Leadership Pipeline from the Inside Out"
• Out and Equal? Best Practices in Managing LGBT Challenges/Issues
• Black Women: Balancing Multiple Identities In Corporate America: Challenges & Issues
• Being First: Employing White Men & White Women in Enabling Diversity: Challenges & Issues