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Summary

With the ever-changing business environment, business owners are adapting diversity policies and strategies
that appeal to their employees, clients, vendors and suppliers. Diversity in the workplace brings with it a host of potential benefits, as well as potential conflicts for business owners to manage. Promoting workplace diversity has many bottom line benefits. But you need to approach the hiring process holistically — retaining employees can be more difficult than recruitment. This is especially true for companies in less diverse regions where relocated minority employees may feel disconnected. You may need to take a more active role in helping them adjust to the culture at work as well as in their new communities.

Promoting and supporting diversity in the workplace is an important aspect of good people management - it’s about valuing everyone in the organisation as an individual. However, to reap the benefits of a diverse workforce it’s vital to have an inclusive environment where everyone feels able to participate and achieve their potential.

In this LIVE online session, Vincent Suppa, discusses why organizations are focusing on social impact issues, and why they are giving attention to programs connected with corporate responsibility, diversity and sustainability. He talks about how to build a culture of diversity, inclusion and sustainability; how to measure the success of programs around diversity, inclusion, social responsibility, and sustainability; how leaders can identify and deal with unconscious bias; and why leaders must understand talent needs and their own biases and much more.

Learning Objectives

• What does diversity mean?
  
• Why is diversity necessary for organizations?
  
• Understanding Unconscious Bias
  
• Understanding Gender Diversity, beyond hiring
  
• Benefits - Diversity As A Strength for organizations
  
• Challenges- What are the implementation challenges faced by leaders?
  
• Solutions
  
  • Ways to encourage workplace diversity and build the right culture
    
  • Tips to manage workplace diversity

Speaker Bio:

Vincent Suppa is a Global HR Executive with business literacy in finance, strategy & technology transforming the HR profession one manager at a time. Operational experience in Hi-Tech, Telecom, Health Care, Non-Profit & Government sectors. Change Agent with track record of repositioning HR from cost to profit center. Efficiency expert, SPHR certified, graduate professor & former founding SHRM chapter President. Currently Vicent holds a President position at HR Avant-Garde and is an Adjunct Instructor in Human Resources Graduate Masters Business Degree program at NYU.