Beyond the DEI Department: Integrating Inclusivity Across Your Organization
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Who Should Attend
Staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions industry owners, principals, chief executive officers, presidents, and branch managers; recruiting professionals
Highlights
True inclusivity requires more than a dedicated diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) department; inclusive practice needs to be woven into every aspect of a company. This session emphasizes the importance of embedding DEI principles in all organizational operations, from recruitment to customer engagement.
Participants will review interactive case studies demonstrating successful integration of DEI in various organizational aspects and engage in group activities to brainstorm ways that DEI objectives can be infused into different departments and functions.
During this webinar, attendees will learn:
- Group activities to brainstorm and map out how DEI can be infused into different departments and functions
- Why it’s not enough to make DEI the responsibility of a specific manager or team
- How to ensure that DEI principles are incorporated in all of a company’s operations
- Tools and frameworks that assist in auditing and enhancing DEI integration company-wide
Presenters
Yemi Akisanya
vice president—justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and people experience, Axon
Akisanya has a nearly 20-year career in business strategy, technology, and finance that has always paralleled his passion for people and culture. A people leader, his work and lived experience have greatly informed his practice, ensuring that humanity remains at the forefront of his initiatives and programs. By creating a space that empowers and accepts all, he believes we are much better suited to manifest the true prosperity of our institutions, communities, and world. Akisanya is a global strategist, expert communicator, and aspiring educator who craves optimal results. For the past half decade, he has held seats on advisory boards of both local and global for-profit and nonprofit firms.
This webinar qualifies for 1.0 hour of CE toward maintaining your ASA credential.
