Integrating Diversity and Inclusion into Your Company's DNA

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Date:

March 3, 2011

Time:

8:00am - 3:30pm

Location:

Hewlett-Packard Company Headquarters

3000 Hanover Street

Building 20, Main Auditorium

Palo Alto, California

Join fellow Diversity Best Practices members and diversity practitioners on March 3rd in Palo Alto, CA for our first Best Practice Session of 2011! Roll up your sleeves with diversity colleagues and explore actionable ways to Integrate diversity and inclusion into Your Company's DNA.

Only a few companies have nailed this. How do they do it? What does it take to make diversity and inclusion an inherent part of culture and business growth? Find ways to embed diversity into every level and function of your organization and identify strategies that support work cultures where all players feel included and valued.

*IMPORTANT* A new meeting has been added to our Best Practice Session at Hewlett-Packard.

Please join us March 2, 2011 from 1:00 pm -3:00 pm for an IT/Tech Industry Diversity Circle. This exciting new event will include lunch, provided by our gracious host Hewlett-Packard, and will be facilitated by our new President Andrés Tapia, focusing on diversity and inclusion disciplines and challenges specific to the IT/Tech Industry.

NEW! Diversity Best Practices, IT/Tech Industry and Diversity Circle
Date: March 2, 2011
Time: 1:00am - 3:30pm
Location: Hewlett-Packard Company Headquarters (Acapulco Room)
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, California

Networking Reception
Date: March 2, 2011
Time: 5:30am - 7:00pm
Location: Same location as above (Main Auditorium)

Best Practice Session, Integrating Diversity and Inclusion into Your Company's DNA

Date: March 3, 2011

Time: 8:00am - 3:30pm

Location: Same location as above (Main Auditorium)

Presentations:

Agenda

8:00 - 9:00 a.m.            Breakfast/Registration

9:00 - 9:15                    Welcome Remarks

Carol Evans / CEO / Diversity Best Practices

HP Welcome:
Marcela Perez de Alonso / Executive Vice President, Human Resources / Hewlett-Packard Company

9:15 - 10:30                  Opening Keynote/Conversation - What's Your Compelling Answer to the Question: "Why is D&I Important to Business Strategy?"

At his first Best Practice Session as President of Diversity Best Practices, Andrés Tapia will challenge diversity leaders to test theories, statements and assumptions, and develop a compelling answer as to why Diversity and Inclusion is an important driver of business strategy. Test your approach and work towards shaping an answer that could impact strategy and help ensure all business functions, internal communications and external branding reflect a strong commitment to Diversity and Inclusion.

Andrés Tapia / President / Diversity Best Practices

10:30 - 10:45                Break

10:45 - 12:00                Thinktank Sessions: Challenges and Opportunities for Action: Embedding D&I at ALL Levels of your Organization

Breakout sessions tackle top of mind issues related to fully integrating D&I into all levels of an organization. Facilitated discussions in areas of talent management, the marketplace, metrics and global strategy will focus on solutions, action planning and report outs. Participants will share their greatest challenges and/or best practices and solutions to the topics.

Introductions by:
Evan Wittenberg / Vice President, Global Talent / Hewlett-Packard Company

Topic 1 - Integrating D&I into Talent Management

Explore challenges and best practices related to embedding D&I into the talent life cycle. How can organizations successfully develop diverse talent via talent management process in order to ensure a diverse pipeline that is ready for the next level of opportunity? What barriers need to be addressed to ensure key diverse talent excels? How can organizations successfully encourage management ownership in building a diverse pipeline?

Facilitator:
Sabrina M. Green / Director, Diversity and Inclusion / The Home Depot, Inc.

Topic 2 - Measuring the Employee Experience: Inclusion and Engagement

Discuss systematic and effective solutions for taking the pulse of work culture. What surveys, scorecards and performance evaluations are companies using to measure the employee experience and improve on results? How are practitioners tracking progress on the mission to create a culture where all individuals feel included and valued, and what specific demographics are being tracked? What actions are companies taking to hold managers accountable for these metrics?

Facilitator:
Laura Small / Human Interests Manager / Saatchi LA

Topic 3 - Managing Perceptions in the Marketplace and Community

As companies work to strengthen and build an inclusive culture, what strategies are used to ensure that external communications and branding reflect core values and the commitment to D&I? How can companies work to ensure a robust D&I strategy is not only operating effectively internally, but in the marketplace and surrounding community as well? How do approaches vary in the global marketplace?

Facilitator:
Debra Nelson / Vice President, Corporate Diversity and Community Affairs / MGM Resorts International

Topic 4 - Cultural Competency and Global Strategy

What are the specific actions an organization can take to implement a global diversity strategy given the fact that, on a country-to-country basis, there exist completely different attitudes and levels of commitment towards D&I? How can diversity leaders benchmark their achievements across different countries and occupational categories? And, what does success look like, given this environment?

Facilitator:
Jennifer Rickard / Director, Global Diversity and Inclusion / Hewlett-Packard Company

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.          Networking Luncheon

1:00 - 2:00 p.m.            Thinktank Report Back/Action Plans

Presenters selected from each of the four Thinktank discussion groups, will report back on the critical highlights and action plans that emerged. This report back segment will introduce a new focus on deepening the core competencies that can strengthen diversity practitioners' arsenal for success in next generation diversity.

Co- Facilitated by:

Andrés Tapia / President / Diversity Best Practices
Evan Wittenberg / Vice President, Global Talent / Hewlett-Packard Company

2:00 - 3:15                    Best Practices Panel: Building an Inclusive Work Environment and What that Means

An inclusive environment celebrates and harnesses strength from diversity of all kinds - backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. It empowers people to be themselves and encourages collaboration and creativity. Find out how Deloitte LLP fosters an inclusive environment that values people for who they are as much as what they contribute.

Moderator:
Paul Silverglate / Partner / Deloitte

Panel:
Suzanne Kounkel MacGibbon / Principal / Deloitte Consulting LLP
Eileen Fernandes / Principal / Deloitte Consulting LLP
Nancie Fernandez / Principal / Deloitte Consulting LLP
Adrian Clark / Senior Manager / Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP

3:15 - 3:30                    Closing Remarks