01 April, 2013  — Workshop I: Channeling Cultural Competency and Sensitivity
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02 April, 2013  — Workshop II: Aligning & Assessing Communication Styles for Improved Management Development
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01 April, 2013

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Hosted by Pacific Gas & Electric Headquarters

For a workplace to be inclusive, it must also be culturally competent, sensitive, & responsive to all the challenges shifting demographics brings, leaders & managers require development about their own diverse & inclusive cultural norms & practices. Multicultural competency requires that all members of any workplace community learn how to become competent to realize full engagement and sustainable performance management.

These unique and targeted seminars will enable you to:

  • Redefine your own and your organization's cultural development needs & organizational competence
  • Review your current approach to mining & using cultural competency data about the culture, strategy and workforce needs to revise your D&I strategic planning for supporting the business
  • Enable culturally competent leadership using tools to identify and address disparities among underrepresented groups
  • Examine cultural communication similarities and differences, styles and their impact on self development, risk taking, & advancement
  • Analyze gaps between current and future capital needs for closing such gaps among evidence based emerging majority populations
  • Identify intra- and inter-cultural, multicultural differences and perceptions across emerging majorities
  • Successfully link D&I’s impact to such factors as engagement and other relevant factors for assessing relationships and effectiveness among all stakeholders

Who should attend

Diversity practitioners, CDOs, HR professionals, EEO leaders, Workforce Planning Professionals, Operational Managers, Organization Development Specialists, and all interested in Inclusive Practices & Cultural Competency

Monday, April 1, 2013 – Day One

REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 8–9 AM

GENERAL SESSION A 9:15–10:45 AM

Inclusion as a Business Strategy

Maria Hernandez, Ph.D., Executive Adjunct Consultant, InclusionINC
Robin Terrell, Executive Adjunct Consultant, InclusionINC

GENERAL SESSION B 11 AM–12:15 PM

Multicultural Data for Gaps and Strategic Impact

Aida Sabo, Vice President, Diversity/Inclusion, Cardinal Health
Barbara Hess, Senior Consultant HR, Cardinal Health

GENERAL SESSION C 1:30–2:30 PM

Hidden Disabilities in the Workplace: A Multicultural Challenge

Michael John Carley, Executive Director, ASTEP

GENERAL SESSION D 2:30–3:30 PM

Positive Organizational Climate: A Successful Approach to Revealing, Accepting and Addressing Realities

Matt Keys, Cultural Competence and Diversity Leader, Florida Blue

GENERAL SESSION E 3:30–5 PM

Introvert/Extrovert: How Communication Styles Affect Inclusion

Pearl J. Alexander, Esquire, Senior Director, People Strategies, Georgia Institute of Technology
Cheryl O. Cofield, Esquire, Director, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Georgia Institute of Technology

Day Two Agenda (click here)

  

For speaking and sponsorship opportunities, please contact Denise Sinuk at denise.sinuk@conferenceboard.org.

Sponsored by

Pacific, Gas & Electric Company

Session sponsor

InclusionINC
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