Event DEI Strategist Certificate
Deepen your understanding and knowledge of DEI practices as core practices both within your events and your organization.
CMP Clock Hours: 14
Members: $556/ Non-Member: $695
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Program Overview
As an event organizer, prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) often means bringing groups of attendees, speakers, vendors, and suppliers together from different backgrounds, identities, and experiences. But there is still work to be done when it comes to activating allies internally and externally, and planning events that enact diverse, equitable, and inclusive behaviors.
This new multi-week online professional development course, produced in partnership with MPI, is designed for industry professionals looking to deepen their understanding, and knowledge of, DEI practices as core practices both within their events and organizations.
Going beyond the fundamentals of diverse event speaker rosters, inclusive marketing, and accessibility requirements, in this course you’ll gain skills to recognize, approach, intervene, and dismantle systems and processes that aren’t diverse, equitable, or inclusive.
From developing a workplace culture that supports a strategic commitment to DEI and building partnerships to tools and resources to use along the way, this course provides the strategies and skills to successfully become a DEI champion throughout the entire event planning process and within your organization.
Course Details
Synthesize commonly used DEI terminology to effectively articulate their objectives
Explore methodologies to manage DEI conflict in individuals, teams, and organization
Examine policies, procedures, and practices to reduce biases and barriers to entry
Develop a business case for diversity to gain leadership buy-in and investment
Synthesize commonly used DEI terminology to effectively articulate their objectives
Explore methodologies to manage DEI conflict in individuals, teams, and organization
Examine policies, procedures, and practices to reduce biases and barriers to entry
Develop a business case for diversity to gain leadership buy-in and investment
Important note: Live class meetings included! The Event Leadership Institute recognizes the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) across the global business of events. To help professionals engage in the dialogue and education they need, ELI is including live scheduled online class meetings with the instructor and other learners registered in the course. During these live class meetings, you’ll have the opportunity to join instructor Zoe Moore, as she chats with industry experts who are educators, practitioners, consultants, and leaders deeply involved in ensuring that DEI is actionable, measurable, and sustainable.
Beyond live classes, learners also have access to an online community forum to exchange ideas and communicate with other classmates to support each other during your journey from insight to implementation. Don’t just learn best practices for DEI, discover how to make them core to your workplace culture!
Live class meetings included! The Event Leadership Institute recognizes the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) across the global business of events. To help professionals engage in the dialogue and education they need, ELI is including live scheduled online class meetings with the instructor and other learners registered in the course. During these live class meetings, you’ll have the opportunity to join instructor Zoe Moore, as she chats with industry experts who are educators, practitioners, consultants, and leaders deeply involved in ensuring that DEI is actionable, measurable, and sustainable.
Beyond live classes, learners also have access to an online community forum to exchange ideas and communicate with other classmates to support each other during your journey from insight to implementation. Don’t just learn best practices for DEI, discover how to make them core to your workplace culture!
Zoe Moore
Honorably discharged from the United States Army following 12 years of service, Chiriga Moore, affectionately known as Zoe (pronounced ZOH) completed an M.S. in Hospitality, Recreation, and Tourism and then started an event planning company in Oakland,
CA.
Learning that Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) were not prioritized in the meetings, events, and tourism industry, she became an advocate to help improve dialogue and action in the areas of supplier diversity, organizational culture,
and diverse representation in leadership.
Initially, spearheading the formation of an Inclusion & Diversity committee with MPI’s Northern California Chapter, she decided to become a Certified Diversity Professional (CDP)® to deepen her knowledge. As the co-founder of Moore Consulting Agency LLC, she seeks to support hospitality organizations to assess the FIVE Cs: Characteristics, Commitment, Capacity, Climate & Culture to develop DEI strategies that are measurable and sustainable. As an independent Hospitality Strategic Consultant, she engages leaders of organizations through her speaking, writing, and consulting.
The outgoing co-chair for MPIs 2021 Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Advisory Committee, Zoe is committed to holding industry leaders strategically accountable to their expressed commitment to change.
Zoe is a contributing writer to The Meeting Professional, Meetings Today, and her personal blog Unsolicited Advice. She resides in Marietta, GA with her 17-year-old son, and loves homemade chocolate chip cookies, photography, and traveling.
