This session will provide some of the most compelling and cutting-edge research that is changing the game in the way Diversity and Inclusion is viewed and implemented. Hear from some of the field’s foremost authorities, authors, professors, and practitioners as they share provocative and insightful perspectives and strategies on:
• Moving from merely counting heads to driving organizational transformation.
• Sponsorship: Who Really Benefits—Men or Women? Why? What strategies will help increase the effectiveness of sponsorship?
• What inclusion really means and how to measure inclusive climates using qualitative and quantitative data.
• Managing organizational diversity: at the functional level, product mix, innovation, and in the workforce.
Dr. Anika Warren
senior director, Research
Catalyst
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Anika K. Warren, Ph.D., leads and supports research and consulting projects focused on organizational change and effectiveness, diversity and inclusion, human capital management, career coaching and counseling, and women in leadership at Catalyst Inc. She serves as an active member of the Women of Color/Diverse Women and Inclusion Issue Specialty Team and a former member and current advisor to the Catalyst Diversity and Inclusion Action Council. Prior to joining Catalyst, Dr. Warren was a full-time Adjunct Assistant Professor at Teachers College of Columbia University, where she continued to teach until September 2010. She also consults to professional service firms, bioscience corporations, and telecommunication companies, provides career coaching, and publishes research articles and book chapters on issues related to diversity and inclusion, organizational change and effectiveness, and counseling psychology. She has served as an educator, consultant, and counselor to numerous Fortune 500 and multinational companies, universities, non-profit organizations, government agencies, and community health organizations. Dr. Warren also develops training videos catering to the unique needs of multicultural clients and their individual and organizational challenges.
Prior to graduate school, Dr. Warren worked in finance at Gap Inc. and The Charles Schwab Corporation and was involved in recruitment and career development efforts at both corporations. She received her B.B.A. in Finance from Howard University and earned her M.A. and M.Ed. in Psychological Counseling at Columbia University, focusing on organizational, multicultural, and school psychology. She completed her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at Boston College.
Dr. Christopher Metzler
associate dean, Human Resources
Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
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Christopher J. Metzler, Ph.D. is Associate Dean of Human Resources for the Masters of Professional Studies at The School of Continuing Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Georgetown University, he was on the faculty at Cornell University's ILR School where he directed the EEO and Diversity Studies program. Prior to entering higher education, he headed the strategic issues and research practice at an international consulting firm and provided advice to multinational corporations and governments on human rights, human capital, equality, corporate social responsibility, discrimination and diversity. He lectures globally on diversity, global employment practices, corporate social responsibility, human rights, human resources and comparative employment systems.
Dr. Metzler is the author of The Construction and Rearticulation of Race in a Post-Racial America (University of Aberdeen Press, 2008) and his forth coming book is Jim Crow on Steroids: And why the election of a black President does not change it (2009). In addition, he has reviewed books in multiple disciplines including: law, human rights, human resources, human relations, political history and others. He is also a reviewer for The Human Relations Journal and Southwest Journal of Cultures.
Dr, Metzler is a frequently sought after cultural critic and commentator and has appeared as an analyst on: The BBC News, Sky News, News Channel 8, BBC Arabic, Channel 7 News The Joe Madison Show, 1290 Radio, ABC News and others. He is frequently quoted in major newspapers including The New York Times and The Washington Times.
In addition, he blogs regularly on The Daily Voice and Diverse Issues in Higher Education. In addition to a Masters degree in Human Rights from Columbia University, he also holds a Ph.D. from University of Aberdeen in Law as well as diplomas and postgraduate certificates in law. He is a member of The University of Oxford in Oxford, England as well as a member of Kellogg College at the University of Oxford.
Dr. Lisa Nishii
assistant professor, Departments of Human Resource Studies & International and Comparative Labor
ILR School
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Professor Lisa Hisae Nishii joined the ILR School as an Assistant Professor in July of 2003. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Maryland and her B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College. She won the Best Dissertation Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) for her work on the attributions that employees make about management's motivations underlying HR practices.
Professor Nishii's research focuses on three main areas: (1) Cross-cultural/international; (2) organizational diversity and inclusion; and (3) employee perceptions of organizational practices, or climate. Her research on culture focuses on theories about, and measurements of, dimensions of cultural variation. She has worked with colleagues to advance theory and application of individualism and collectivism and cultural tightness-looseness. In her ongoing research, she is examining how the cultural context influences the effectiveness of HR "best practices." Her work on diversity and inclusion focuses primarily on investigating climate for inclusion as well as other moderators of the diversity to performance relationship. She has been working most recently on multi-level research funded by the SHRM Foundation and the Department of Labor that examines the interplay of organizational practices and climate, leader characteristics, group processes, and experiences in shaping the engagement of workers in general, as well as of aging workers and workers with disabilities in particular. In her third stream of research, Nishii focuses on employees' perceptions and experiences of organizational practices. She is particularly interested in the role of employee perceptions, attitudes and behavior in driving unit and organizational performance.
Professor Nishii regularly presents her research at conferences for SIOP and the Academy of Management, and her research has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Review, and Personnel Psychology. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Management. Professor Nishii has also worked as an organizational consultant for several organizations on a variety of topics, with the bulk of this work focusing on diversity and inclusion in organizations.
R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr.
president and CEO
Roosevelt Thomas Consulting & Training
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For the past 25 years, R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr., has been at the forefront of developing and implementing innovative concepts and strategies for maximizing organizational and individual potential through diversity management. He currently serves as CEO of Roosevelt Thomas Consulting & Training, Inc., and as Founder/Trustee Emeritus of The American Institute for Managing Diversity (AIMD). Dr. Thomas is the author of seven published books; his most recent World Class Diversity Management: A Strategic Approach (2010). Dr. Thomas has been active for more than twenty-five years as a consultant to numerous Fortune 500 companies, corporations, professional firms, government entities, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions, and he has served as a frequent speaker at national conferences and industry seminars. He has also served as secretary of Morehouse College, dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration at Atlanta University, assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, and instructor at Morehouse College. Further, Dr. Thomas has been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the top ten consultants in the country, elected as a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources, and cited by Human Resource Executive as one of HR’s Most Influential People.