DIVERSITY LEADERS EXCHANGE | Johns Hopkins’ Approach to Building High-Performing Teams: Exploring the Hidden Layers of Diversity

2017 Diversity & Inclusion Conference & Exposition

Learn how to recruit leaders and assemble a winning team through leveraging the power of diversity and overcoming hidden biases.

PowerPoints/Handouts Available

Human capital is the greatest asset of any company/organization, and recruiting and retaining high-performing employees is key to competitive performance. While it is well-established that diversity increases creativity and problem-solving, hidden biases may deprive companies from acquiring precious talent. In this session, you will engage in an interactive exercise— “Choose Your Group”—which will mimic selecting the best team for a project. The simulation will open with a video that provides the background of an organizational challenge. You will then experience the interplay of balancing the professional, personal and diverse portfolios of potential team members with the specifics of a task and your own preconceived perceptions. The session will illustrate the fallacies that there is a single successful solution to any challenge and that people tend to be neutral. In this session, you will learn to:

Increase your self-awareness related to unconscious bias in self and others.
Recognize systemic factors that can remedy implicit bias.
Improve team-building skills.

Date(s) & Time(s):

Monday, October 23, 2017 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Presenter:

James E. Page

vice president, Diversity & Inclusion

Johns Hopkins Medicine

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James E. Page Jr. currently serves as Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer for Johns HopkinsMedicine. In this role, he is responsible for diversity based initiatives for the medical center, the medical school and the greater hospital network. Prior to this role, James served for four years as the Assistant Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, one of the nation's top pediatric medical centers. In this role he was responsible for helping to shape a culture focused on delivering extraordinary culturally and linguistically competent care to patients from over 85 countries.

Prior to this role, James was responsible for directing nationwide diversity across DaVita, Inc., a 35,000-employee, 1500-location healthcare organization specializing in dialysis treatments.

At Lancaster General Health, James served as Vice President of Diversity, Inclusion and Linguistics. For this system of three hospitals and several outpatient facilities in Lancaster, PA, James helped improve delivery of culturally competent care for patients in a largely Spanish-speaking community that also featured considerable religious diversity.

James spent over 10 years with Dell Inc. as a leader in its Global Diversity, Global Ethics, Compliance and Privacy organizations. In this role he reported to the late Thurmond Woodard, a pioneer in the area of global diversity and ethics.James serves on the Corporate Advisory Committee for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in Washington, DC and on the Disparities in Healthcare subcommittee. A featured contributor in Public Speaking in the Age of Diversity (Prentice Hall), he also directed an initiative which garnered Dell a Top Innovator in Global Diversity Award and lead Lancaster General to receive national recognition for its unique and effective cultural competence implementations.

He holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin and earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Technology from Purdue University.

SESSIONS:

Eloiza Domingo-Snyder

senior director, Diversity & Inclusion and deputy chief diversity officer

Johns Hopkins Medicine

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Eloiza Domingo-Snyder is the Sr. Director and Deputy Chief Diversity Officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine and The Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland. Her long-standing career in diversity and inclusion spans many industries. Prior to her current role, Eloiza served as the Consultant for Diversity and Inclusion at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Mrs. Domingo-Snyder is a two-time graduate of Indiana University, having earned both her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from the Bloomington, IN campus. She holds a M.S. in Higher Education and Student Affairs with a minor in Counseling and concentration in Diversity Education, and a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology with a minor in Spanish. Currently, Eloiza is pursuing a Ph.D. within the Literacy, Language and Culture graduate program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

SESSIONS:

Location:

Seacliff CD (Bay Level)

Amount of Credit:

1.00

Credit Type:

•SHRM PDCs

Competency:

Leadership & Navigation

Global & Cultural Effectiveness