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2014 Diversity & Inclusion Conference
Workplace Application: Learn leadership development best practices that can produce measurable shifts in white male leader's thinking and acting, and support full inclusion.
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White male leaders are a key part of any long-term inclusion initiative, yet are often overlooked when it comes to D&I efforts. Examine the critical steps to engage white men and the mindsets, assumptions and behaviors that need to shift for white male leaders to effectively and visibly lead D&I efforts. Drawing on Catalyst's 2012 study, Calling All White Men: Can Training Help Create Inclusive Workplaces, discuss the crucial steps that are necessary to cultivate white male leaders who 'get it' and become full partners in their organization's diversity and inclusion journey.

 
Date(s) & Time(s): 
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - 8:00am to 9:15am
Presenter: 
Bill Proudman
founder and COO
White Men as Full Diversity Partners
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Bill’s diversity journey began in 1987 when he attended a two-hour presentation on the topic at the suggestion of a friend. It led to a mentoring relationship that fundamentally transformed his life, personally and professionally. Bill pioneered white male only workshops in the mid-90s after repeatedly noticing that white male leaders disengage from diversity efforts. His provocative work seeded creation of White Men as Full Diversity Partners.

For more than 30 years, he has served as a consultant, coach and facilitator to countless companies and organizations on issues of team effectiveness, diversity and leadership development. He is the founder of the ETD Alliance, a small trade association for experiential training and development consulting firms, and was president of the Association for Experiential Education for two terms.

An energetic contributor to global solutions toward poverty, injustice, education and personal empowerment, Bill has been taken part in interventions such as getting relief supplies to the Burmese people devastated by Cyclone Nargis; assisting displaced monks and leaders of the Saffron Revolution in Burma as they seek asylum in the United States; and helping individual and family micro-business enterprises in northern Laos and Thailand.

These and other efforts arise from Bill's love of adventures down remote rivers and untraveled roads. Many of his most gratifying cross-cultural learning experiences have occurred in remote corners of the developing world. These experiences inform and enrich his leadership work and consultation.

SESSIONS:
Location: 
Grand Ballroom D (5th Floor)
Amount of Credit: 
1.25
Credit Type: 
•HR Credit
Session Type: 
Concurrent Session
Competency: 
Relationship Management
Global & Cultural Effectiveness
Intended Audience: 
Early Career
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Executing Your D&I Strategy

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