Out & Equal 2006 Workplace Summit
Pre-Summit Seminars

Out & Equal Workplace Advocates is proud to offer three relevant Pre-Summit Seminars on Wednesday, September 13 (each seminar is a full day program that includes breakfast and lunch), the day prior to the Out & Equal 2006 Workplace Summit opening.

Each Pre-Summit Seminar is designed to address contemporary issues that are increasing in prevalence in workplaces across the United States and beyond: "LGBT Leadership Development" "Building Bridges Transgender: Speaker's Bureau Training" and "Understanding Whiteness/Unraveling Racism: A model for Diversity Work Within and Outside the LGBT Community."

Attendees have the unique experience of hearing firsthand from experts in these essential workplace discussions. Be sure to sign up for one of these extraordinary Pre-Summit Seminars when you register for the 2006 Summit.

• LGBT Leadership Development
  Paula Jones [read more]
  
  
• Building Bridges Transgender:
  Speaker's Bureau Training
  Jamison Green & Donna Rose [read more]
  
  
• Understanding Whiteness/Unraveling Racism:
  A Model for Diversity Work Within and Outside the LGBT Community
  Laurie Lippin [read more]
  
  
• Overcoming Challenges and Improving Organizational Effectiveness of your Employee Resource Group*
  Jim Huberty, Robert Perez, Louise Young [read more]

* Limited access. See description for details.

 

LGBT Leadership Development

LGBT leaders learn to explore the necessary critical attitudes and skills for sound leadership. Participants examine the competencies and values that define excellent leaders and identify their unique strengths, opportunities and patterns of interaction. By questioning ways in which LGBT and other identities hinder and facilitate effective leadership, participants leave with an action plan to address their ongoing development.

Paula S. Jones

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Building Bridges Transgender: Speaker’s Bureau Training               

Building Bridges Transgender is a specific program that focuses on the T in LGBT. The purpose of this diversity training is to break down barriers between transgender and nontransgender employees, provide essential information for human resource professionals who work with employees in transition and encourage participants to reflect on how gender roles in society affect their workplace experience. In this Seminar, participants experience a rich curriculum and then determine how it can be implemented in their organizations. Participants receive the necessary tools to effectively deliver a one-and-a-half-hour presentation.

Jamison Green

Donna Rose

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Understanding Whiteness/Unraveling Racism: A Model for Diversity Work Within and Outside the LGBT Community

As so-called targeted individuals, we in the LGBT community have a responsibility to ourselves and to the future of a truly diverse society to question how we’ve been socialized to maintain whiteness — and then do something about it. This training seminar is for self-identified white people and people of color to address the “diversity within our diversity.”	Laurie Lippin
Designed to facilitate an existing exploration of racial identity, we offer a carefully structured curriculum that addresses the concept of whiteness. We hope attendees will apply what they learn in their individual workplace initiatives.

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Overcoming Challenges and Improving Organizational Effectiveness of your Employee Resource Group

This daylong workshop brings together LGBT employee resource group (ERG) leaders from diverse industries, networks, and locations with the aims of identifying the opportunities and challenges facing ERGs in today’s social and corporate environments. With a focus on organizational development, leaders will share best practices and discuss strategic planning and assessment.

This private workshop is only available to members of the Out & Equal ERG Registry. To join our registry of learn more, contact Program Associate Ryan Crowder.

Jim Huberty	Robert Perez
Louise Young

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