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• HR Huddle: Ask the Experts: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

  • When
    Thursday, September 24, 2020
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    9:15 AM - 10:15 AM (EDT)
  • Location
    Zoom - Online discussion with facilitators
  • Spaces left
    7

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  As you continue on the journey to “get this right”, some people in this space are seeing results. Please join us in the next HR HUDDLE with Elliott M. Francis, Director, Diversity and Inclusion at Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), and Shaara Roman of the Silverene Group to ask the experts questions from their experience. These two have led large and small organizations through the process and will be in our virtual huddle as a resource for you. There is no cost for you to join, but registration is required.

  Over his professional career, Elliott has consulted with business leaders to develop, implement, and execute diversity & inclusion strategies, aimed at achieving organizational success. At Booz Allen Hamilton, an international management consulting firm, Elliott led the development, implementation, and management of an enterprise-wide Diversity & Inclusion Strategic Partnering Program across 40 business units.

  His experience includes:  National Science Foundation (NSF), The Department of Treasury (IRS), The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). In his current role as the Director, Diversity and Inclusion at BIO, Elliott provides leadership and drives change through the development and implementation of strategic diversity and inclusion initiatives in the biotechnology and life sciences industry, and within BIO. 

  He received his BA in Sociology from Middlebury College and holds numerous professional diversity & inclusion, project management, and human capital certifications from Georgetown University, Cornell University, and the Human Capital Institute.

  Shaara Roman is a wife, mom, board member, entrepreneur, and former CHRO. She consults with leaders to create healthy workplaces by helping them build compelling cultures, design effective organizations and align their people programs to crush business goals. 

  Born in India, schooled in Nigeria and England, and having lived in Greece before coming to the US to work her way through college, Shaara is a citizen of the world. This experience has instilled a desire to build bridges between different kinds of people and propelled her to launch her business in 2016.  Shaara has deep leadership and executive experience and brings an authentic, creative and solution-oriented approach to client engagements.

  Shaara is a frequent speaker, serves on the boards of Enabled Intelligence and Arlington Soccer Association, and received an MBA from Georgetown University. 

  
  
  
  

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• From Measuring Engagement to Designing A Great Employee Experience with Dana Wasson

  • When
    Friday, October 02, 2020
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    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar

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  Many organizations understand the importance of improving their customer’s experience, but the customer’s experience is directly impacted by the employees within the organization. Through understanding the meaning of employee experience, audiences will explore the ripple effects and benefits of engaged employees and how to take employee engagement a step further than annual surveys.

  

  Dana Wright-Wasson is a recognized speaker, author, and consultant who leads clients through transformational processes around strategic planning, employee engagement, and leadership. Dana is passionate about creating amazing employee experiences; she wholeheartedly believes that engagement is a workplace outcome—an effect of the way people are treated in organizations. She uses graphics and visual templates to increase participation and inspire people to act.

  
  

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• The Art of Innovation with Noah Scalin

  • When
    Friday, November 06, 2020
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    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EST)
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar

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  This is not about getting out of a box or coming up with a Big Idea. It’s about being able to consistently draw out the potential in any situation.
  
  The World Economic Forum named creativity one of the top 3 must-have skills for success in all industries. It is essential to keeping up with the pace of innovation and change in these VUCA times. But very few organizations truly invested in the development of this essential capability. Why? Because creativity is considered too intangible to measure, too messy to fit into a strategic plan or simply something that is only for a few specially talented people. Any organization serious about preparing for tomorrow will need to change how they think and talk about creativity in the workplace, today.
  
  In this engaging presentation, Artist/Author Noah Scalin pulls back the curtain on his own awe-inspiring artwork to explain the real ROI of creativity. Through a highly-engaging illustrated presentation he shares the story of how he transformed his work and life through a surprisingly simple practice.
  
  This presentation challenges common misperceptions about creativity and provides ​The Big Seven​ key strategies that anyone can use to innovate and grow and inspire others to do the same!
  
  You are invited immediately to put these concepts into practice themselves with a complimentary one-week ​Creative Sprint®​ challenge delivered directly to you by email following the event.

  

  Noah Scalin​ is the first ever artist-in-residence at the Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Business where he was retained as adjunct faculty. He founded his own business, Another Limited Rebellion in 2001 with the idea that he could make a living doing what he enjoyed and effect positive change in the world. Since then, Noah has traveled the world bringing his message of creative practice to everyone from incarcerated teenagers to Fortune 500 executives. His renown Skull-A-Day project won a Webby Award and landed him on The Martha Stewart show. His artwork is collected internationally and has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries. He is the author of six books on creativity, art & design.

  
  

  
  

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• NASA Future of Work Study with Dan Ward and Elizabeth Kolmstetter

  • When
    Friday, December 04, 2020
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    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EST)
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar

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  In 2019, NASA received a directive to land the first woman and the next man on the moon within five years through new partnerships with the emerging commercial space industry.  Sixty years old as an organization, we were challenged to embrace a new mindset, to transform NASA into a leaner, more accountable and agile organization, and incorporate new ways to accomplish our mission formerly only performed by NASA.  To better understand and navigate emerging new workplace realities, we reviewed the latest research on the Future of Work. We conducted internal and external workshops, held focus groups, incorporated insights from futurist interviews and used targeted surveys to develop our Future of Work framework. 
  
  During this presentation, Elizabeth Kolmstetter and Dan Ward will review NASA’s Future of Work framework, which identified eight insights, challenges, and opportunities that are informing NASA’s future talent strategy.  Participants in this session are invited to share their own approaches to these eight themes and to help NASA incorporate new insights about global shifts, trends and implications that are constantly changing all organization’s work environments. 

  

  Dan Ward currently serves as the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) Special Advisor, Talent Solutions.  Before NASA, he was the Chief Workforce Economist for The MITRE Corporation. In his commercial career, Ward developed and implemented the human capital planning and analytics practices for EDS, Texaco, GTE and AT&T-Western Electric.   He was the guest editor for HR People + Strategy Fall 2019 issue and was the senior editor for AMACOM's Positioned: Strategic Workforce Planning that Gets the Right Person in the Right Job and HRPS's Best Practices in Human Resource Forecasting and Modeling.  In 2016, HR People + Strategy recognized Dan for his long-term contributions in innovative people practices with their Lifetime Achievement Award.

  
  

  
  

  

  Elizabeth Kolmstetter is the Director of Talent Strategy and Engagement at NASA. In this role, she has broad responsibilities for talent strategies and programs including employee engagement, workforce planning and talent acquisition, studies of the future of work, and people analytics. With over 25 years of public service, she has pioneered numerous innovative talent management programs across agencies including NASA, USAID, CIA, FBI, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Kolmstetter is a recipient of the National Intelligence Superior Service Medal, is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), received the M. Scott Myers Award for Best Applied Research from SIOP, and received the Innovations in Assessment Award from the International Personnel Management Association. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Virginia Tech and her B.A. in Psychology and Computer Science from Hollins University.

  
  

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• The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity with Edie Goldberg

  • When
    Friday, January 08, 2021
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    8:00 AM - 10:30 AM (EST)
  • Location
    Tower Club - 8000 Towers Crescent Dr, Ste. 1700 Vienna, VA 22182

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  What if the talent you're seeking to hire is already on your company's payroll but going untapped? Employees often have capabilities and aspirations that go far beyond their current job descriptions. Discover a new approach to work that moves us from a focus on jobs to a more fluid project-based approach to work.
   
  In a rapidly changing economy that demands the constant reskilling of workers, the future belongs to companies that can access and deploy talent quickly and efficiently. Today’s organizations need to be able to quickly pivot and move talent to the greatest area of need.  Unlock the hidden skills within your organization to keep your employees happy and engaged, improve your organization’s agility, and lower your costs.
  
  During this meeting you will learn how to:
  

  • Create a new "Talent Operating Model" (TOM) to uncover and cost-effectively match the right talent to real-time business challenges
  • Apply the 6 core principles that underly this new TOM
  • Uncover the hidden skills within your workforce 
  • Bust the "functional silos" in your company to create agile, collaborative teams
  • Improve employee retention by offering employees the opportunity to expand their careers within your organization rather than leaving in search of new challenges

  Edie Goldberg, Ph.D. is the President of E.L. Goldberg & Associates in Menlo Park, California. She is a nationally recognized expert in HR and talent management strategy and organizational effectiveness. She is the co-author of The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity (LifeTree Media, April, 2020).  Edie earned her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Albany, SUNY, and she earned her B.S., and M. S. in Psychology from San Diego State University.  She serves on the board of the SHRM Foundation, is Past Chair of HR People + Strategy (HRPS), and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology.  She is the recipient of the HRPS Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions made to the HR profession.

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