Cook Ross Web Seminars

ReInventing Law Firm Diversity Efforts
Tuesday, June 30 2009 - 1:00pm EST

The diversity conversation in law firms is in crisis. Many are at a crossroads between incredible opportunity and potential peril as they attempt to advance diversity, inclusion, and cultural competency in individual firms and across the legal sector as a whole. This FREE web seminar will outline key steps in making diversity a core business asset for law firms.
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06-04-09
Howard Ross
Keynote: Unconscious Bias: Impact on Global Market Place
2009 Speaking of Diversity Series Workshop
Penn State, Malvern, PA

An interactive workshop with leading Diversity and Inclusion Experts, HR Experts, Fortune 500 Chief Diversity Officers, and Academics who will provide attendees with diversity management ideas, tools, and practices that advance the mission and vision of organizations with interests in the U.S. and the Pacific Rim.

07-16-09
Howard Ross
Keynote: What is Cultural Competency? Setting the Boundaries
Workplace Diversity: Practice and Research
George Mason University, Arlington, VA

In its 3rd year, this annual conference will explore the latest best practices and research in diversity management and business education specific to cultural competency in the workplace. Join diversity professionals of all backgrounds—corporate leaders, managers, academics, researchers—and gain the knowledge, skills, and understanding needed to effectively operate in today's diverse workplace.

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PAST EVENTS

04-30-09
Howard Ross
ReInventing Diversity for Healthcare
2009 Blue Diversity Conference
Atlanta, GA

Millions of dollars and thousands of hours have been spent on recruiting efforts, marketing efforts, and diversity trainings, and yet there are clearly still new and on-going problems to solve and opportunities to explore. ReInventing Diversity for Healthcare is a session that focuses on the paradigm of diversity in the past, and what in needs to be for success in healthcare in the new millennium; the distinctions between efforts that are "well-intended" and those that are really working; and how to re-energize ourselves to create new possibilities for our organizations that can counteract our growing 'diversity fatigue'.

03-30-09
Howard Ross
ReInventing Talent Management for 21st Century Globalism
SHRM Global Conference & Exposition
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Millions of dollars and thousands of hours have been spent on recruiting efforts, marketing efforts, and diversity trainings, and yet there are clearly still new and on-going problems to solve and opportunities to explore. Our inexorable movement toward a Global economy requires more than simply moving the same talent to different places around the world; it requires a transformation in the very way we address issues of Talent Management.

01-22-09
Howard Ross
ReInventing Diversity in the 21st Century
Linkage Diversity Teleconference Series

The state of diversity was fully present in all of its complexity on November 4, 2008. On the one hand, the election of Barack Obama was a historic reminder of how far we have come with regard to a new sense of diversity acceptance. On the other hand, the passage of Proposition 8 in California, and similar anti-gay marriage referendums that have been passed throughout the country, demonstrates how far we still have to go. In addition, the global economic crisis and the international reaction to Obama’s victory have made it clearer than ever how interconnected the world has become. What exactly is the state of diversity today?