Monday October 3, 2011 - Keynotes & Sessions
Welcome & Keynote - 8:00 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. - Robert Wendover - The Power of Inclusion Celebrating Age Diversity in Today’s Workplace
Concurrent Sessions - 9:05 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
- Edward Hubbard - Diversity Training ROI: how to measure the return on investment of training initiatives
- Gregg Ward - The Respect Factor: the key to the collaborative workplace
- Doug Harris - Moving the Pendulum on D&I Education
- Kelly Clark - Gay Days Daze - A Cultural Competency Case Study
- Joel Frater - Succession Planning for Diversity in Tough Economic Times
- Michele Atlas - Managing Through Nonstop Change in Diverse Organizational Cultures
Concurrent Sessions 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
- Robert Wendover - Common Sense by Friday: Introducing Critical Thinking to the Menu Driven Generation
- Joe Gerstandt - New Tools, New Rules: Putting Social Technology to Work for Diversity & Inclusion
- Denise McLean & Thomas Fagan - Embedding Diversity and Inclusion in Your organization
- Bill Shackelford, Brian Sumner - Getting to an Inclusive Culture: one company and Its Journey
- Mauricio Velasquez - Why Diversity training and Related efforts Have to Change
- Nadine Vogel- Successful Workplace Collaborations - Supporting Employees with Disabilities is Everybody's Business
Cultures with Good Humor: Identities and Laughter
Keynote & Lunch – 12:00 to 1:45 p.m. - Cathy Bao Bean: Bridging Cultures with Good Humor: Identities and Laughter
Senior Leadership Panel – 2:00 to 3:00
Concurrent Sessions - 3:10 p.m. - 4:25 p.m.
- Susan Woods - Moving Inclusion Forward: Diffusing Resistance and Conflict
- Scott Fearing - Understanding the Power of Bias
- Luis Martinez - The World is Flat- Implications for Business, Ethics and HR
- Deb Koen, Clay Osborne - To Affinity and Beyond: Strategic Career Management
- Julian Smith - Multi-Dimensional Mentoring
- Cathy Bao Bean - Bridging Cultures with Good Humor: Identities and Laughter
- Nancy Ares, Dena Phillips Swanson - Workplace Micro-Aggressions: Demoralizing and Corrosive
Closing Keynote - 4:40 - 5:30 - Joe Gerstandt - RESET |
The Power of Inclusion has been approved for 7.25 General credit hours by the HR Certification Institute. See instructions and forms to submit your activity 
The award-winning Bush Mango Drum & Dance group, is a multicultural, multi-generational company that teaches and performs music and dance of Guinea, West Africa. 
Laraine Kaminsky - “Leveraging Cultural Competence for Inclusion in a Rapidly Changing World” Cross Cultural Competence is an asset for all. How do you leverage this for inclusion in multicultural organisations domestically and globally ? This keynote will provide provocative questions and strategies. Laraine will engage all participants to think and continue their learning processes in this dynamic topic.