Executive Diversity Education Session
Do you really want them to stay? Building Cultures of Inclusion: Sustaining and Retaining Talent
—You can build sustainable talent pipelines, but if you can't keep people once they've arrived, what have you gained?—
Date: Thursday, June 7, 2007
Time: Morning session: 7:30 am to 11:30 am with continental breakfast
Location: Hilton Seattle Airport & Conference Center, Crystal
Ballroom in the Conference Center,
17620 International Boulevard, Seattle, Washington, 98188 (map)
Presenters:
Jorge Farías, Managing Partner, Novations Group, Boston, Massachusetts with Steve Bucherati, Group Director, Diversity and Fairness, The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia
Who should attend this session:
Presidents, CEOs, COOs, Vice Presidents, Senior Directors and Directors along with their senior HR officers and diversity leaders. Read comments from 2006 session attendees.
Session goal:
Focusing on recruiting diverse talent is only half the story of inclusion. The other half is building cultures that welcome and sustain diverse recruits. This session will identify how executives build Cultures of Inclusion, a process achieved through organizational culture and systems change, as well as executive behavior. The outcome is not only representation but also the leveraging of diversity at all levels.
Format:
A workshop format that mixes lectures with small group discussions of the content and hands-on experiences. In past sessions, executives have identified the opportunity to talk with peers from other companies and to work on actual strategies and tools as very valuable and worth their time.
Content:
- How do diverse people experience corporate environments?
- What does a "culture of inclusion" look like?
- How do you build it? What's the strategy?
- What are the barriers that undermine inclusion (and therefore recruitment and retention), such as "micro-inequities," "glass/concrete/bamboo ceilings", etc.)?
- What is the executive's role in removing these barriers and building an inclusive culture that retains top talent and improves organizational performance?
Outcomes: Executives will walk away knowing:
- How to distinguish an inclusion strategy from a recruitment strategy
- How to recognize the benefits of an inclusion strategy
- How an inclusive culture connects recruitment to retention
- How to lead the inclusion strategy and build an inclusive culture
- What you can do personally to remove barriers to inclusion that adversely impact the talent of your employees
About the presenters:
- Jorge Farías, Managing Partner, Novations Group, Boston, Massachusetts.
Jorge brings 20 years of experience in management consulting, executive coaching, client services and training delivery. He began his career with J. Howard & Associates, now the Diversity & Inclusion Practice of Novations Group 14 years ago. Novations is one of the leading diversity and inclusion consulting firms in the United States. He has done extensive work with executives and managers in Fortune 500 companies and has also worked in Europe, Central and South America. Prior to joining Novations in 1993, Dr. Farías taught graduate-level courses in the area of ethics. - Steve Bucherati, Group Director, Diversity and Fairness, The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia
As chief diversity officer, Steve created and has led the company's Workplace Fairness function since February 2001. He oversaw the seven-person diversity Task Force created as a result of the racial discrimination lawsuit settled by Coca-Cola in December 2000. He led the effort that moved Coca-Cola from that litigation settlement to a Top 5 ranking on DiversityInc.'s "Top 50 Companies for Diversity" list for both the 2006 and 2007 survey years. Steve will speak directly about the challenges and successes of building a culture of inclusion at Coca-Cola working with the highest levels of senior management.
Registration fee per person:
Early bird, $395 by May 8
After May 8, $495
How to register:
- DOWNLOAD the attached Registration Form (89k Adobe® Acrobat™ .pdf)
- PRINT and COMPLETE the registration form
- FAX the completed form to The GilDeane Group, Inc. 206-363-5028
Organizers of the 2007 Executive Session and the NW Diversity Learning Series
Phone: 206-362-0336
Email: orders@diversitycentral.com
Results of our Survey of Executives conducted in early 2007:
Executives who attended last year's session, identified the following three topics that they were most interested in:
- Exploring the barriers that undermine inclusion*;
- Candidate recruitment efforts that attract diverse qualified candidates;
- Understanding and engaging a multigenerational workforce.
*Two write-in responses suggested "micro-inequities" as one of the barriers. One person wrote: "All of these topics are important, but I think the toughest ones to tackle are the subtle things we all do to undermine diversity and inclusion on a daily basis, intentionally or unintentionally." These topics informed the focus for the upcoming session.
