Mosaic Conference
Thursday, May 14th, 2020 | 9:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: City Club of Washington
555 13th St NW, Washington, DC 20004
The consulting service that only large corporations can afford now available to small and medium organizations.
This conference offers each participant a tailored assessment of how their organization is doing from a diversity, equity and inclusion standpoint using a survey that relies on the latest research in the field. What only large corporations could afford previously through expensive consulting services, is now available to small and medium sized organizations. Companies understand to be the most innovative and profitable, they must spend time and money to increase their diversity, inclusion and belonging efforts. Will your organization continue to thrive in this rapidly changing and competitive market?
Bridge Intention and Action
We often treat inclusion as an outcome when in fact it’s a continuous improvement process that helps us reach those desired outcomes. We don’t reach inclusion – we aspire to it by creating cultures of fairness, respect and equal opportunity for all. A diverse and inclusive culture creates processes that maximize teams’ unique and diverse talents, ensuring employees feel valued which is critical to the organization’s overall success.
Many organizations lump inclusion and diversity policies within the compliance paragraph in the Human Resource manuals. Though an inclusive culture indeed allows diversity and inclusion to flourish it is also a strategic business driver. Empirical research from the world of organizational development has repeatedly demonstrated that inclusion and diversity, when strategically deployed as a bottom-line, business-driver, improves employee and customer satisfaction, while maximizing individual productivity and team performance. It’s a nuanced arena facing many intersecting challenges, changes, uncertainties, and grey areas. And despite considerable efforts to advance diversity in workplaces across all sectors of the U.S. economy, a gap between intention and action persists.
The Mosaic Dawn conference will convene thought leaders to present best practices on how you can create the equitable and inclusive workplace you want, now. Take the first step towards creating a truly inclusive workplace by reserving your spot at the Mosaic Dawn Summit today.
Maximize the value of your diverse workforce
Most businesses have come to recognize the benefits of cultivating diversity and inclusion in the workplace. But believing in it isn’t enough. Despite the best of intentions, unconscious biases persist in workplace policies and practices. Identifying, and overcoming these barriers often only happen once leadership understands the costs of not cultivating diversity education and inclusive practices.
Even with the proper support, implementing diverse and inclusive practices can be fraught with obstacles, challenges, and deep frustration. Successful organizations achieve this balance by creating an inclusive employee experience involving active manager participation, a focus on equity and fairness, and an emphasis on the future.
Where should you start? Experts in the field will demonstrate how data and analytics can give you guidance, influence, and leadership buy-in, as well as help you monitor the effectiveness of your diversity initiatives and practices over time.
This one-day conference is not for those who need convincing that there is more to do. The Mosaic Dawn Summit is designed for those who are seeking the tools, data, best practices, and insights to convince others of the rationale for change, and the confidence to implement new approaches in the interest of a more inclusive workplace.
Participants will hear from speakers who have successfully led efforts to make companies more inclusive. They will learn effective tools and resources to put lessons learned into practice. And they will learn from one another proven actions and strategies they can take back to their own organizations.
Learning Objectives
- Identify data, tools, and talking points to use in winning over minds as well as hearts, in pursuit of inclusivity and diversity.
- Explore and uncover processes and policies at your organizations in which unconscious bias is a barrier to your inclusion and diversity objectives.
- Gain ideas for implementing new programs and initiatives through reflection on best practices from other businesses.
Be a voice in the room! Join us as we:
- Discuss ways to better understand, define, measure, and design for a diverse workforce.
- Share examples of and lessons on inclusive design frameworks that engage more people in the workplace.
- Hear stories of personal journeys, deepening our understanding of workplace inclusion and exclusion.
- Practice applying frameworks and tools for inclusive design to real workplace problems, so we can begin to create change tomorrow.
Go beyond good intentions. Improve your capability for inclusion. Create an engaged and diverse workforce and maximize its talents to produce impact that will set your organization apart.
Join us at the Mosaic Dawn Summit and network with like-minded colleagues, learn from expert keynotes, and attend life-changing workshops. It’s the best one-day investment you can make to achieve accelerated personal and organizational growth.
Who Should Attend
CDOs and C-Level executives
Vice Presidents and Directors
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Talent Management
- Human Resources
Professionals with responsibility
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Organization Culture
- Leadership Development
- Employee Engagement
- Learning
- Succession Planning
- Program Managers
- Learning and Development
- Employee Relations
- Talent Acquisition
- Global Business, Ethics and Integrity
- Total Rewards
According to GettingHired.com, here are 5 reasons why HR professionals should attend diversity and inclusion conferences:
- They help you understand your customers better. Almost half (49%) of employers surveyed for LinkedIn’s Global Recruiting Trends 2018 said they focus on diversity in their workforce to better represent their customers. If you’re not attending events and trainings with this focus, you’re already behind.
- Improve your employer brand. Today there is more public awareness than ever before on what initiatives companies are (and aren’t) investing in with diversity and inclusion. In a 2017 survey by PwC, 54% of women said they researched if a company had diversity and inclusion policies in place when deciding to accept a position with their most recent employer.
- Diverse teams perform better with more creativity. There isn’t a shortage of this point being discussed but statistics and studies continue to prove this point. According to a recent McKinsey study, U.S. public companies with a diverse board have a 95% higher return on equity than those with non-diverse boards.
- It will decrease your talent shortage. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for job seekers with disabilities was 9.2 percent in 2017 making it a missed opportunity for HR professionals who are not investing in resources to successfully hire this population.
- Networking. Change is a constant and it’s important for HR professionals to always be learning and networking with peers about best practices within the workforce.
