The Role of Diversity & Inclusion in Talent Management

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Date:

September 23, 2010

Time:

8:00am - 4:00pm

Location:

AARP

601 E Street, NW

Washington, DC

Developing and retaining high-potential, high-achieving women and minorities is one of the top three immediate business concerns of DBP members. How do D&I and Talent Management professionals work together to build company cultures that embrace the skills needed to recruit, retain and manage a diverse workforce? Join the discussion with companies who engage and leverage their top talent to remain innovative and competitive. Learn what D+I strategies will guarantee that diverse talent get to the highest executive levels to help drive future business imperatives.

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Agenda

8:00 – 9:00 am              Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 9:15 am              Welcome Remarks

Carol Evans / CEO / Diversity Best Practices

9:15 – 9:50 am             Keynote/Conversation: How Diversity & Inclusion Can Take Talent Management to the Next Level

For top talent to achieve professional growth at all levels and contribute to the future success of their organization, an environment must naturally empower all to contribute to their full potential. How do you get leaders and managers to use a fair and equitable standard for talent identification and development and then apply it? What strategies and tools are innovative corporations using to structure, measure and gain consistent equity practice across the organization?

Dr. R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. / Chief Executive Officer / Roosevelt Thomas Consulting & Training
Author, World Class Diversity Management

Introduction by: Edward Bullock / VP, Diversity / L'Oreal USA, Inc.

9:50 – 10:20 am Conversation / Questions & Answers

Dr. R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. / Chief Executive Officer / Roosevelt Thomas Consulting & Training
Author, World Class Diversity Management
Carol Evans / CEO / Diversity Best Practices

10:20 – 10:30 am Closing Remarks by Dr. Thomas

10:30 – 10:45 am Break

10:45 am – 12:00 pm    Best Practices Executive Panel: Sodexo

Organizations that utilize Talent Management can make tremendous headway in achieving the ultimate D&I objective: embedding Diversity and Inclusion into the way the organization behaves and performs. Executives from Sodexo present the company's case study as it relates to integrating Diversity and Inclusion into the Talent Management process. The panel will review the strategies and tools they utilize. Their discussion will provide a glimpse into how Sodexo operationalizes the process, lessons learned, competency model, mentoring models, community partnerships, learning strategy and accountability.

Moderator:
Rohini Anand, Ph.D. / Senior Vice President & Global Diversity Officer / Sodexo

Panelists:
Jodi Davidson / Director of Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives / Sodexo
David Pollack, Ph.D. / Senior Director for Talent Development / Sodexo
Betsy Silva Hernandez / Senior Director Diversity Learning / Sodexo
Michele Suprunowicz / Senior Director of HR / Sodexo

12:00 – 1:15 pm           Hot Topic Lunch: Diversity & the Millennial Mindset: Maximizing the Potential of the Multi-Generational Workforce

Most organizations have not invested adequately to profit from the dynamics of the changing global workforce. Business leaders need to know more than a handful of perceived generational stereotypes. The demands and aspirations of younger workers are different from those of previous generations, and powerfully shaped by different historical events and life experiences. How do different generations define the meaning of work? How does your company manage knowledge transfer? Adapt to generational differences in learning and management style? Navigate job assignments and provide age-appropriate feedback? Is your company doing everything it can to be an employer of choice across the generational spectrum?

Howard Ross / Chief Learning Officer / Cook Ross

1:15 pm – 2:30 pm      Thinktank Session: Burning Issues for Integrating D&I into Talent Management

Four breakout sessions on important theme topics are facilitated by D&I professionals. Participants will share their greatest challenges and/or best practices and solutions to the topics with an emphasis on action planning.

Moderator:
Tiane Mitchell Gordon / Senior Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion / AOL, LLC

Topics/Small Group Facilitators:
1. Developing a Diverse Pipeline: One Size Does Not Fit All
Elita Rosillo-Christiansen / Senior Diversity Director / AARP
Maria Carrasquillo / Senior Specialist / AARP

2. Bring Transparency and Accountability to Talent Management
Henry O. Hernandez, III / Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion / SAIC

3. Getting Started: Aligning D&I and Talent Management Goals
Melissa Donaldson / Senior Manager, Inclusion Practices / CDW

4. Integrating Metrics and Governance for Talent Management
Mark McLane / Director of Diversity & Inclusion / Booz Allen Hamilton

2:30 – 3:15 pm           Thinktank Report Back/Action Plans

3:15 – 3:30 pm           Wrap-up/ Closing Remarks

Carol Evans / CEO / Diversity Best Practices
B. J. Shelton / Vice President, Human Resources / AARP

-Agenda subject to change-