I had the chance to speak at a recent luncheon on diversity and inclusion. I was the featured speaker at Grand Rapids SHRM Lunch Meeting.
In this session I covered how to get started with assessing your organization, approaches for building a business case, and key strategies to use to get started.
Learning Objectives:
Understand key definitions: Diversity, Inclusion, & Equity
Understand unconscious or implicit bias and how it influences leadership and management behavior
Understand the four types of business cases for companies to advance diversity and inclusion
Review examples of business cases and form ideas for how these could apply to your company
Understand critical metrics to gather to understand representation within your company
Understand the community demographics and how to use these to benchmark diversity within your company
Understand the scope of diversity and inclusion best practices
Understand top 5 things to get started with a diversity initiative