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10 Takeaways To Expect At This Year’s Philadelphia Diversity & Inclusion Conference

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By: Greg DeShields | Feb 17, 2020

The Philadelphia Diversity & Inclusion Conference returns for a second year, March 30-31, 2020.Held at the Hilton Philadelphia at Penn’s Landing, the summit is designed for those looking for innovative and progressive strategies on diversity, equity and inclusion to incorporate into their corporate culture. CEOs, diversity officers,government officials, senior-level hospitality executives, minority hotel organizations and tourism executives, and university-level hospitality educators and administrators will gather to exchange insights and share evidence-based research around diversity, inclusion and equity best practices.

Topics and programs at the Philadelphia Diversity &Inclusion Conference:

Academic Think Tank – Unique to this conference, this program is designed for educators to collaborate on diversity, equity and inclusion best practices within academic programs on topics such as advancing tactics to access Diverse Talent Pipeline, produce Diverse and Inclusive Research and Performance. Metrics, and create Diversity and Inclusion Curriculum and Staff Development.

Backlash #MeToo – The issue of men becoming more reluctant to engage with women at work in certain ways, even though such activities can be crucial for advancement.

Diversity Includes Disability – Fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion benefits everyone. While companies increasingly recognize the benefits of building and retaining a diverse workforce, they inadvertently neglect “disability”in their diversity and inclusion practices.

Diverse Talent Pipeline – Employers are recognizing the strong business case to improve the level of diversity and inclusion within their workforce.

Employee Resource Groups (ERG) – Resource groups are evolving into business tools and sources for corporations to mine for insights into new markets.

Diversity and Healthcare – Diversity is becoming a key word in health care. Hospitals and health care systems are focusing on providing care that addresses the diversity of their patient populations. Hospitals also are working to increase the diversity of their leadership team, board and staff and building a culture of diversity and inclusion.

Diverse Marketing Strategies – Marketers have to be more attentive, communicating in ways that appeals to, and includes, diverse groups.

Supplier Diversity Programs – Take the next step to drive greater impact, stronger alignment with philanthropic and social innovation, set measurable goals, partner with organizations that cater to small and diverse businesses, start a supplier database, promote your diversity.

Unconscious Bias Analysis – Provide personalized cultural collaboration assessments and create individual action plans.

Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Talk Sessions – 18 minute sessions on the matrix of intersectionality & implicit bias, cultural intersectionality, gender diversity and pay equity, and transgender discrimination.

Emcee for the Philadelphia Diversity & Inclusion Conference will be Nina Vaca,Chairman and CEO of Pinnacle Group and keynote speaker is Howard Ross, Founder of Cook Ross.

Proceeds from the event benefits students at Temple University’s School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management (STHM). The Philadelphia Diversity & Inclusion Conference is a partnership with PHL Diversity, a division of the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, Temple University School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Lodging Media and Pink Media.LGBT.

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Re-Posted with Permission from https://www.discoverphl.com/blog/10-takeaways-
to-expect-at-this-years-philadelphia-diversity-inclusion-conference/


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Greg DeShields
Executive Director, PHL Diversity

 
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