2022 DEI Continuing Education Webinars

December 14, 2022

Everyday Resilience for DEAIB Practitioners and Those in Need of Renewed Energy!

Speaker: Anne Hilb, MSOD, CDP®, ICF-ACC

Come learn practical tools for when you are feeling depleted, recenter your heart, reconnect with your purpose, and leave with a mini plan for resilience. 

November 9, 2022

Inclusive Language Workshop

Speaker: Tiffany Sturdivant

Words matter. Ever been on the receiving end of something that didn’t feel good? Or, said something you wish you could have said differently? In this course, you’ll have an opportunity to review and understand what it means to use inclusive language and how it contributes to an environment of belonging. 

• Understand why words matter and the impact they have
• Discuss examples of non-inclusive language and how to reframe or rephrase
• Practice how to address non-inclusive language when you hear it (or use it)
  

October 26, 2022 

What Drives DEI Work NOW

Speaker: Lydia Thacker

Forward Motion! Steer your company towards a path where the DEI work is critical to success and growth. 

Let’s talk about the Browning and Aging of our population as drivers for the DEI work along with recent events in our nation. Together we will look at a few steps we can take to help steer our work environments to be more diverse and equitable with teams looking at an inclusive future. 

October 13, 2022

Being Your Authentic Self as a BIPOC Professional

Speaker: Iris Drayton-Spann, MA, PHR, CDE®, SHRM-CP

• What does it mean to be authentic?
• Letting go of code-switching, free your mind!
• Setting boundaries, so you can flourish.
• Listening to your inner voice (Be yourself; everybody else is already taken – Oscar Wilde)
• Being ok with moving on (I don’t like the business I’m in. I’m not passionate about that but most importantly I don’t like myself)
• Your mental health means everything (period)

Takeaways, strategies, and tips:

• Benefits of being authentic as a BIPOC professional
• Pursuing your passion
• Having happiness and well-being, through self-care and self-confidence
• No need to promote “the lie” in order “to get ahead”
  

September 14, 2022

Hispanics in the Workforce: Best Practices for Inclusion and Equity

Speakers: Julia Mendez Achée, CDP® and Brian Marentette, PhD

1. Differentiate between the terms Hispanic, Latino/a, Spanish, Latinx
2. Learn the latest census information regarding Hispanics in the United States and projected population
3. Understand which jobs have a concentration or underrepresentation of Hispanics
4. Discuss the pay gap issue and evaluate the extent of the pay gap problem
5. Learn ways to close the pay gap and increase the qualified talent pool
   

August 31, 2022

Historic, Current, and Further Bias – The Impact of Science on Minorities

Speaker: Willie Cobb MDIV D.MIN CDP®

In this workshop for DEI Trainers and Practitioners Dr. Cobb will explore why lifesaving
and life impacting technologies have been and for the foreseeable future are racist --
through a review of the historic and current systemic and systematic bias in healthcare,
education, media, and psychological fields.

August 24, 2022

LEQ + Lived Experience Intelligence

Speaker: Jenn Tardy, CDE®

In this 75-minute webinar, Jenn Tardy, Diversity Recruiting Trainer and Coach, will introduce and discuss LEQ + Lived Experience Intelligence™. Recognizing and valuing LEQ + Lived Experience Intelligence:

• Offers considerable potential to sustainably enhance diversity within recruitment,
• Is the missing link in building a more inclusive and equitable system of hiring and retention, and
• Is the “it factor” that makes increased diversity so profitable.

Q&A will be available at the end.

August 10, 2022 

Designing for Better Outcomes: How to Prevent Algorithmic Bias

Speaker: Leah Smiley, CDE®

Artificial algorithms are increasingly being deployed to inform, endorse, and govern various aspects of today’s society. Their reach includes the domains of hiring, lending, medicine, criminal justice, insurance, allocation of public services, social and business interactions, and the dissemination of information and news. Through a synthesis of computational and statistical models for representing concepts, human-generated datasets that provide examples for training, and powerful optimization algorithms that can efficiently navigate through vast and complex landscapes to infer concepts that explain data, such algorithms have taken big strides towards mimicking various aspects of natural intelligence.
These algorithms have led to tremendous economic and social impact but have also been shown to be biased – they can discriminate, reinforce prejudices, polarize opinions, and influence political processes. How can subjective human or societal biases emerge in the objective world of artificial algorithms? And how can we design algorithms free from these limitations?

The search for answers to these questions also leads us to some understanding of the bias in human decision-making algorithms.

July 27, 2022

Inclusalytics [in•CLU•sa•li•tics]: How Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leaders Use Data to Drive Their Work

Speaker: Victoria Mattingly

This webinar will reference the newly released book, Inclusalytics [in•CLU•sa•li•tics]. Based on interviews with DEI leaders across industries (ranging from Fortune 500 companies to startups, academia, and nonprofits), Dr. V along with co-authors Sertrice Grice and Allison Goldstein discovered how modern businesses use data to unlock DEI success. Employing a combination of case studies, practical examples, and step-by-step instructions, the book guides DEI leaders through developing a robust, data-centric approach to their work.

July 13, 2022

The Defenseless Disruptor: Supercharge Your Influence in the Face of Resistance

Speaker: Sonia David, CDE®

In this webinar, join Sonia M. David MDiv, CDE®, in exploring how a strategy of defenseless disruption might help DEI professionals address institutional resistance without losing heart. We'll review some best practices and investigate Sonia's thoughts on a promising next practice to amplify our efforts and keep DEI practitioners energized, engaged, and encouraged.

June 29, 2022

Authentic and Actionable Allyship

Speaker: Dr. Mary McConner, CDE®

Allyship is an active practice of centering and elevating those who are systemically disempowered. Whether you chose to serve as a sponsor, advocate, or amplifier, being an ally requires taking on others’ struggles as your own. Unlike performative allyship, actionable allyship involves the willingness and ability to take action to help drive systemic change. In this webinar we will discuss the seven types of allies; the importance of transferring the benefits of your privilege to support those who lack it; and how to leverage your time, resources, and talents to support others as an ally.

June 22, 2022

How Implicit Bias Really Works in the DEI Workplace

Speaker: Dr. Noel Rodriguez

In this workshop for DEI Trainers and Practitioners, Noel explains how our understanding of implicit biases has changed in the past 10 years and offers an overview of contemporary cognitive science and philosophical literatures on implicit bias. He then uses this to offer new explanations of how implicit biases function and why they have the effects they do, and how these new findings should inform our perspectives on which kinds of workplace interventions to mitigate the effects of implicit bias work, and why.

Whether you’ve given implicit bias trainings in the past or are new to the subject, there should be a lot here you haven’t heard elsewhere!

June 8, 2022

How to Form Advisory Councils to Enact Diversity Initiatives

Speaker: Theresa Fletcher-Brown, CDE®

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Does your organization want to start a youth council or strengthen the way youth voice is utilized in your institution? For-profit, non-profit, government, and educational settings are beginning to leverage youth advisory councils to ensure representation from all generations are heard. Based on over 30 years of experience and work with youth councils from around the world, participants will learn strategies to authentically engage youth in your work.

May 25, 2022

Resilience in Diversity: Focusing on Your Plan

Speaker: Willie Cobb MDIV D.MIN CDP®

This workshop will include, in part, identifying when DEI is being moved to the back burner, how to speak to organizational leadership about continuing DEI training, the importance of diversity professionals engaging in self-care to keep DEI at the forefront.

May 12, 2022

How to Create Equitable + Customized Performance Management Systems

Speaker: Viva and Michael

Have you considered the intersection of your DEI efforts and performance management systems? Most performance management systems are often sources of exclusion, stress, and inequity for employees—limiting the potential of your team. We'll show you ways to redesign coaching, feedback, evaluation, and calibration techniques through the lens of company values and equity. You’ll improve performance, build inclusive cultures and products, and unleash the greatest potential of every employee.

April 27, 2022

The Powerful Pairing of Mentorship and DEI

Speaker: Michelle Cantor, CDE®

One of the most underutilized methods to embed DEI in our professional lives is mentorship. This interactive webinar will provide practical knowledge and insights on how to leverage mentorship to optimize DEI and reap the collective benefits of this powerful pairing.

April 20, 2022

Major Global Gender Challenges with a Focus on Women

Speaker: Dr. Anita Nahal

Anita Nahal, Ph.D., CDP is an Indian American poet, flash fictionist, children's writer, and professor. She teaches at the University of the District of Columbia, Washington DC and has previously worked at Howard University, George Mason University, Chicago School of Professional Psychology-DC campus, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, India among other institutions. Nahal has authored thirteen books. Her third poetry book, What's wrong with us Kali women? (Kelsay, 2021) was nominated by Cyril Dabydeen, Guyanese Indian Canadian & Ottawa poet laureate emeritus & novelist as his choice for the best poetry book for 2021 for British, Ars Notoria. It’s also compulsory reading in an elective course on Multicultural Society, at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Anita is the daughter of Sahitya Akademi award winning Indian novelist, Chaman Nahal and educationist, Sudarshna Nahal. 

April 13, 2022

Neurodiversity in the Workplace

Speaker: Julia Mendez Achée, CDP®

Individuals who are neurodivergent often struggle with not receiving a fair opportunity for being hired or promoted. The cause for underutilizing this demographic is often due to a lack of understanding or misconceptions by employers. This webinar will give attendees insight into three common neurodiverse conditions: ADHD, dyslexia, and autism.

March 23, 2022

Ways to Engage Resource Groups

Speaker:  Hope LeNoir, CDE®

Hope Lenoir is the owner and founder of Rise and Fly LLC, with more than 20 years of industry experience. She serves as a global, expert career consultant, inspirational speaker, and the award-winning, internationally read, author of Workday Catalyst. All her books are filled with professional tips, inspiration, and real-life career stories that professionals use and see results. As an expert career and leadership coach, her clients include professionals across the globe including those in Bangalore, London, and the US with a focus on connecting professional + spiritual purpose to get the right people in the right places with advanced use of skills, resources, and satisfaction. Hope Lenoir has been a captivating speaker who empowers thousands of audience members to build their skills and disrupt their industry. She is also a Certified Diversity Executive and double International Stevie Award winner who views professional purpose as a customized way to transform the professional world by solving huge, core, career issues.

March 9, 2022

Authentic Leadership: Courage and Vulnerability

Speaker: Petr Zelenka

Belonging is about how you feel at work, which no one can afford to neglect. Being accepted and included as a part of a group has long been considered a basic human need. Do you feel valued, respected, and heard at work?

Let’s explore the best practices of letting everyone belong!

February 23, 2022

Fostering Belonging and Team Dynamics

Speaker: Petr Zelenka

Sharing experiences, skills, and resources to:

1. Assist SFD members and others in learning about ways to become a better advocate,
2. Inform people about concrete actions they may take to fight for DEI, and
3. Exchange ideas on practical and tangible DEI initiatives and resources that people could bring back to their departments.