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UPCOMING EVENTS

02-09-10
Leslie Traub
Implementing Global Gender Strategies: Utilizing Metrics and Accountability for Driving Gender Equality
Diversity Best Practices Global Symposium
New York, NY

The session is co-facilitated, with Dr. Rohini Anand, Senior Vice President & Global Chief Diversity Officer, Sodexo. Powerful social and economic change is brought about when girls and women have the opportunity to participate in their society. The gender gap remains a main focus as US Secretary Clinton stated in her November 6th speech that advancing the right of women is now a cornerstone of USforeign policy. Women perform 66 percent of the world’s work and produce 50 percent of the food, while earning 10 percent of the income and owning 1 percent of the property (United Nations Development Fund for Women 2008). Global corporations can impact the position of women through greater attention on the advancement of women inside their walls. An increasing number of global female executives can be positioned to impact the global economy through their decision making. Developing those leaders has been a challenge. This session explores a systemic model for bringing more women into the global ranks of corporations, and how those efforts can be measured.

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PAST EVENTS

11-19-09
Cook Ross Inc.
Celebrating 20 years of Leading Transformation in Diversity & Inclusion
National Visionary Leadership Project
Washington, DC

On November 19, 2009, globally recognized consulting and organizational culture change firm Cook Ross Inc. celebrated 20 years of business at the historic National Visionary Leadership Project in downtown Washington, DC. Speakers for the evening included Kojo Nnamdi, Radio Host, WAMU Radio NPR; Cheryl Clarke, President, National Visionary Leadership Project; Leslie Traub, President & CEO, Cook Ross Inc.; Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, Chair Board of Directors, National Visionary Leadership Project and Chair Board of Directors JBC Global Diversity & Inclusion Institute; Cuc Vu, Chief Diversity Officer, Human Rights Campaign; Garry Curtis, President & CEO, Hager Sharpe; Timothy Kime, President & CEO, Leadership Greater Washington; and Howard Ross, Chief Learning Officer, Cook Ross Inc.

10-20-09
Howard Ross
Unconvering Unconscious Bias
SHRM Diversity Conference
San Diego, CA

Unconscious bias regularly impacts decisions that are made in organizations. Decisions ranging from who gets hired, to who gets certain challenging assignments to what strategic directions are chosen based on who is and is not included in conversations leading to those decisions. This presentation explores a number of strategies that will help create workplace cultures in which employees can actively "unconceal" perceptions and patterns that have been hidden. Cook Ross is considered to be the thought leader in the practical application of academic research of the unconscious to organizational diversity efforts.

07-16-09
Jean-Marie Navetta, PFLAG National & Leslie Traub, President & CEO of Cook Ross Inc.
Why Did You Say That? Using Perceptual Identity to Break Through Barriers in the Workplace
Out & Equal
Orlando, FL

Are you encountering resistance to LGBT inclusion at work? You may feel frustrated and hurt, wondering why some people seem so close minded and homophobic. How did people develop these opinions about LGBTs and how does this impact behavior? The answers to these questions can help circumnavigate labels, open discussions, reveal commonalities and create progress. Learn what perceptual identity analysis is, how it reveals our biases and impulses, and how we can use it to approach creating change in the workplace compassionately and effectively.

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.

06-30-09 - 1:00pm EST
Howard Ross & Karen Hardwick, The Hardwick Group LLC
Web Seminar
ReInventing Law Firm Diversity Efforts

The diversity conversation in law firms is at a crossroads. Great strides have been made in law firms. Still, there's plenty of room for improvement. Successful firms will find ways to grow, preserve and build upon a strong diversity culture-even in the midst of challenging economic conditions. Why? Because it's the right thing to do. And, not surprisingly, there is a strong correlation between a powerful diversity brand and law firms who maintain a competitive advantage. This FREE web seminar outlined key steps in making diversity a core business asset for law firms.

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?