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2012
Conference Location
Crystal
City Marriott, Arlington, Virginia
1999 Jefferson
Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia· United States
Call for reservations or hotel information only at phone: (703)
413-5500
The
Conference will be held at the Crystal City Marriott at Reagan
National Airport, 1999 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia
22202. (Crystal City Metro Station)
The newly renovated
Crystal City Marriott is located steps from hip restaurants, iconic
theaters, and Pentagon City shopping, and is just a short Metro
ride away from Washington, DC popular tourist attractions.
Comfort and convenience
define the newly renovated Crystal City hotel's accommodations,
where each luxurious guest room and suite offers high-tech business
amenities. The Crystal City hotel also features a variety of event
facilities and services ideal for Arlington wedding receptions,
conferences, family reunions and meetings.
Unique among hotels
in Crystal City, our accommodations are ideally located one mile
from Reagan National Airport and are a short commute to the downtown
Washington, DC area. Contact the hotel directly for reservations
at 703-413-5500. Ask for special Conference rates while available.
Last
Year's 2011 Program Agenda
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8:00
am -
8:30 am
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Registration
& Continental Breakfast
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8:30
am-
8:45 am
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Welcome
and Opening Remarks
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8:45
am-
10:15 am
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Opening
Session
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8:45
am-
9:30 am
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"Embracing
a New Diversity Paradigm at SC Johnson"
Maria L. Campbell, Director of Diversity, SCJohnson.
This
presentation will focus on SC Johnson's evolving perspective
on diversity, and how it embraces leadership, worklife
balance, global networks, brand management, and community
leadership, while inspiring behavioral change in employees,
customers, and suppliers. Learn how to engage your employees
and capture your customers by changing the diversity paradigm!
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9:30
am-
10:15 am
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"Adapting Diversity
Best Practices to Public Sector Challenges"
Dr. Johnson A. Edosomwan, Chairman and CEO, JJA Consultants,
Inc.
This
presentation focuses on the key challenges and proven
solutions for implementing world-class diversity best
practices amidst the day-to-day realities of politics,
bureaucracy, and risk aversion in the public sector. Need
tips? Attend this session.
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10:15
am-
10:30 am
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Break
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10:30
am-
12:00 pm
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Morning
Session
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10:30
am -
11:15
am
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"And
Cultural Competence for All"
Dr. Susan Leggett-Johnson, Associate Medical Director
of Human Resources,
Kaiser Permanente.
Effective
diversity management is a key business strategy essential
to Kaiser Permanente's delivery of high quality, affordable
health care. KP will share how its three-pronged National
Diversity Strategy allows them to provide comprehensive
health care to diverse communities through effective,
targeted, market segmentation; culturally competent medical
care and service; and enhancing the diversity, cultural
competence, skill, and performance of thier work force.
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11:15
am -
12:00 pm
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"Collaborate
to Accommodate People With Differing Abilities"
Nadine Vogel, President, Springboard Consulting.
People
with disabilities are increasingly seen in the workplace.
Companies are dependent on their Diversity professionals
to ensure seamless integration but success requires collaboration
with a cross functional team including Talent Management,
Affirmative Action/ADA, L&D, Work-Life and Facilities
professionals. This session will address the why, how,
who and outcome of such Diversity led collaboration.
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12:00
pm-
2:00 pm
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Lunch
Session
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12:30
pm -
1:15 pm
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"DiverseCity
and Much More at NBC Universal"
Ms. Debra Langford, Vice President, Inclusion and Business
Diversity, NBC Universal.
Three
mega-media giants come together to affect the what the
world sees, hears, and experiences. Hear from Ms. Langford
as she presents her strategies for ensuring that diversity
remains a top priority in all facets of the business.
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1:15
pm -
2:00 pm
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"FDIC's
New Twist on Diversity Strategies"
D. Michael Collins, Director, Office of Minority and Women
Inclusion,
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Mr.
Collins will share how one of the longest standing national
financial regulators has reinvented several mainstream
diversity initiatives and embedded them into the fabric
of FDIC for long-term success. FDIC will share best practices
in its Diversity Education Series, which now streams diversity
events live to every employee's desktops; the reinvention
of the "suggestion box" into FDIC's Question,
Comments, and Responses (QCR) System; the FDIC Mentoring
Program, in which over a third of FDIC's approximately
5,400 employees have participated since its inception;
and much more.
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2:00
pm-
2:15 pm
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Break
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2:15
pm-
4:00 pm
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Afternoon
Session
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2:15
pm - 3:00 pm
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"Diversity
and Public Health: Meeting the Metrics Challenge at CDC"
Dr. James A. Nelson, Chief Diversity Officer and Mr. Reginald
R. Mebane, SES, Director, Office of Diversity Management
and Equal Employment Opportunity.
The Office of Diversity Management and Equal Employment
Opportunity at CDC will not only present their new customer-centric
structure, but will also elaborate on their new metrics
and algorithms designed to validate how targeted diversity
and EEO strategies impact the bottom-line. Learn how new
strategies and techniques, including the "Monday Morning
Huddle" can help sharpen your focus and achieve quantifiable
results.
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3:00
pm - 3:45 pm
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"Consistency
Within Diversity: Creating a Consistent Experience in 17
Different Languages"
Diana Oreck, Vice President,
Leadership Crenter, Ritz Carlton Hotels.
Today
more than ever it is critical that organizations develop
a global mindset. Regardless of the industry or the global
coordinates, consistency fosters trust in the customer.
Yet, there is competitive warfare that compels organizations
to deliver unique, memorable, and personalized products,
services, and experiences, while remaining consistent, in
order to expand market share. Learn how to create consistency
within diversity from studying The Ritz-Carlton Lifestyle
Brand, currently boasting of 75 award-winning luxury hotels,
representing 44 nationalities and 17 official languages!
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3:45
pm-
4:00 pm
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Closing
Remarks
Summary of Diversity Best Practices Conference
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Conference
Materials
Complimentary Conference
materials include: The Tenth Annual Diversity Solutions Best Practices
Conference Proceedings, which includes presentations from each
speaker at the event, as well as other information to benefit
participants.
Purchase a copy of
the recent book, "One Race: Human Diversity Solutions".
One Race: Human - Diversity Solutions is an authoritative source
that provides results-oriented strategies and solutions for addressing
diversity-based issues at the individual, team, work-unit, community,
organizational, national and international levels.
Complimentary continental breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks
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