Broadcast Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2023
from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm (ET)
Overview:
More and more companies today recognize the importance of a diverse and inclusive workplace in achieving organizational success. By embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), businesses can attract and retain the best talent, drive innovation, and strengthen their brand. However, some organizations still struggle to establish concrete diversity goals and implement transformative strategies that effectively promote DEI.
Thus, to thrive in this modern business landscape, companies must take decisive and proactive steps in creating a positive and progressive work environment.
In this CLE Webcast, a panel of thought leaders and practitioners will discuss the importance of DEI in the workplace and provide practical advice on how firms can develop actionable objectives. Speakers, among other things, will also share some of the challenges and opportunities companies face in implementing DEI initiatives.
Key topics include:
- Understanding the Benefits of DEI: An Overview
- Common Challenges Organizations Face
- Practical Steps in Developing Actionable DEI Objectives
- Best Practices for Setting Measurable Goals and Tracking Progress
Credit:
Course Level:
Basic
Advance Preparation:
Print and review course materials
Method of Presentation:
On-Demand Webcast
Prerequisite:
None
Course Code:
1410661
NY Category of CLE Credit:
Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias
Total Credits:
2.0 CLE
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Speaker Panel:
Kathleen Nalty, DEI Expert & Consultant
Kathleen Nalty Consulting, LLC
Kathleen Nalty is a lawyer, author, and expert in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). She own her own consulting firm and has educated thousands of lawyers and legal professionals across the U.S. and Canada on DEI principles. In 2015, she published a “how to” book for law firm leaders entitled Going “All-In” on Diversity and Inclusion: The Law Firm Leader’s Playbook that includes several tools for advancing DEI. In April 2017, Kathleen was invited to give a TEDx talk – Diversity Makes You Smarter – at the University of Colorado. Kathleen founded the Center for Legal Inclusiveness (CLI) in Denver, Colorado in 2007 and led the nonprofit as its Executive Director through January 2013. She started her career as a law clerk to a federal district court judge in Denver. Kathleen was then selected to participate in the Attorney General’s Honors Program at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. As a federal civil rights prosecutor in the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division, Kathleen worked on cases involving hate crimes, police brutality, and slavery. Kathleen has received 12 awards over the course of her career for her ground-breaking work in diversity, equity, and inclusion from several organizations.
Ann Thomas, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer
Stinson LLP
Ann guides Stinson’s diversity and inclusion initiatives and collaborates with firm leadership to incorporate strategies to achieve the firm’s goals when it comes to hiring, retaining and advancing diverse attorneys and staff and supporting their client’s diversity and inclusion efforts. She focuses her work on equipping people with the knowledge, skills and tools needed to create an inclusive environment and eradicating the effects of bias through systems and process. She is an accomplished speaker, a best-selling author and the creator of a podcast that provides diverse and first-generation law students guidance on thriving in the legal profession.
Edward E. Hubbard, Ph.D. , President & CEO
Hubbard & Hubbard, Inc.
Dr. Edward E. Hubbard is President & CEO, Hubbard & Hubbard, Inc., Diversity ROI/Analytics award winning author of 60+ Books/Executive Consultant/Ph.D. with Honors, Business Administration.
Dr. Hubbard received the “Living Legends of Diversity Award” creating “Diversity ROI Analytics” and “Diversity Measurement Fields, Distinguished Alumni Award from The Ohio State University, and “Sentry Award” from the U.S. Pentagon, and briefed the “President’s Military Diversity Leadership Committee” on Diversity ROI. Dr. Hubbard serves on Harvard Business Review and Diversity Executive Magazine Editorial Advisory Boards.
Agenda:
Kathleen Nalty, DEI Expert & Consultant
Kathleen Nalty Consulting, LLC
- Understanding the Benefits of DEI: An Overview
- Talent Imperative
- 75% of millennial lawyers surveyed expect their organizations to make DEI a priority
- 74% of US workers say DEI is important when job hunting
- Client Imperative
- Increasing numbers of clients expect outside counsel to provide diverse teams, which make better decisions compared to homogenous teams
- Business Benefits
- Organizations more advanced in DEI enjoy higher rates of employee engagement, discretionary effort, retention, innovation, ability to change, and more.
- Common Challenges Organizations Face
- Traditional diversity efforts focused on recruiting and programs have not worked and never will
- Lack of awareness of how to establish a modern-day DEI initiative; most law firm leaders do not know how to lead their organizations in these areas
- Transformational DEI requires changes to structures, behaviors and culture, and these deeper level changes are hard to make
- Practical Steps in Developing Actionable DEI Objectives
- Auditing firm practices regarding 10 hidden barriers and creating action plans
- Implementing 10 key strategies to advance DEI
- Best Practices for Setting Measurable Goals and Tracking Progress
- Benchmark progress using a DEI Maturity Model
Ann Thomas, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer
Stinson LLP
- Systemic Adjustments
- Policies
- Practices/Procedures
- De-bias Practices & Procedures
- Norms
- De-bias Practices & Procedures
- Common Areas for Systemic Bias
- How to ID Systemic Barriers
- Changes to DEI Post SCOTUS Affirmative Action Decisions
- DE&I Efforts Post-SFFA Decision
- Best Practice Guidelines
Edward E. Hubbard, Ph.D. , President & CEO
Hubbard & Hubbard, Inc.
Importance of DEI Metrics & Analytics
- Three Types of Metrics for Measuring DEIBA Impact on the Bottom-line
- Strategies and Tools to Report Your Diversity Initiative’s Impact
- Building Inclusion ROI Metrics
- A Brief Introduction to the Hubbard Diversity ROI Methodology and Associated Sciences
Date & Time:
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm (ET)
Who Should Attend:
- Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officers
- Chief Compliance Officers
- Diversity & Inclusion Officers
- Human Resource Executives
- Human Resource Managers
- Chief Human Resources Officers
- Legal Managing Partners
- Labor and Employment Law Attorneys & Consultants
- Employee Relations Professionals
- Top Level Management
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