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