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INCLUSION 2024
Examine initiatives your organization can undertake to embrace notions of DEI and to make your employer a destination and employer of choice.
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The fight for high-caliber talent has never been greater, and the competition for their services has never been higher. Increasingly, the success of our organizations has become dependent on retaining our stars and continually recruiting new people who will help our organizations reach the next level. Notwithstanding this reality, too many employers still are ignoring concepts like inclusion and equity and believe that status quo - or worse, reversion to past days - will drive results. Bottom line? This is not the case. We will examine critical (and achievable) ways your organization can embrace DEI and can become not just an employer of choice but a true destination for the finest industry talent.

Learning Objectives:

  • Examine how conducting pay equity audits can enhance retention and recruitment efforts.
  • Evaluate the ways in which  embracing mental health awareness and empathy in performance management can massively impact the employee experience.
  • Discover, through the use of videos from popular movies and television program, methods your organization can implement to create a diverse, inclusive, equitable, productive and profitable workplace.


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Date(s) & Time(s): 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 10:30am to 11:30am
Presenter: 
Michael S. Cohen, J.D.
Partner
Duane Morris, LLP
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Michael S. Cohen is a partner in Duane Morris’ Employment, Labor, Benefits and Immigration Practice Group.  Michael concentrates his practice in the areas of employment law training and counseling. He has trained and counseled employers throughout the country on subjects including harassment prevention; diversity, equity and inclusion; combatting implicit bias; performance management; discipline and discharge; hiring and recruiting practices; performance evaluations; FMLA, ADA and FLSA compliance; leave of absence policies; LGBTQ+ issues in the workplace; substance abuse testing; workplace violence; records retention; conducting background checks; and more. Michael also has conducted investigations into claims of harassment and discrimination and has drafted employee handbooks, employment agreements, non-compete agreements and post-termination agreements. Michael regularly conducts in excess of 200 trainings each year.  He has represented clients throughout the country in EEO and other administrative proceedings.

Michael has been cited as a national authority on employment issues by The New York Times, The Associated Press, USA Today, MSNBC.com, HR Magazine, SHRM On-Line, Employment Law 360, Inside Counsel Magazine, as well as many other publications. Michael serves as an Advisory Board Member of GenHERation and as a Board Member of Serve, Inc. Michael is a 1997 magna cum laude graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law and a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

SESSIONS:
Location: 
Adams Ballroom A - Level 1
Session Type: 
Concurrent Session
Competency: 
Interpersonal (Behavioral)
Leadership (Behavioral)
People (Technical)
Workplace (Technical)
Intended Audience: 
Intermediate (Fostering I&D)
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Conscious Inclusion

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