So far, approaches to workplace inclusion have been scattered and progress has stalled. U.S. businesses spend $8 billion each year on trainings that don’t work and actually backfire. The cycle of recruiting underrepresented individuals, asking them to Lean In, and conducting diversity trainings misses a crucial understanding of the problem: It’s not personal. It’s systemic. In general, there is a lack of clarity over what works – which mechanics and processes should be tracked to catalyze progress towards workplace equity.
This is brought to you by AdaMarie and features, Sara Sanford, co-founder of AdaMarie’s Inclusion Lab, and architect of the GEN Certification, the first data-driven standard for intersectional gender equity in the workplace. Attendees will become familiar with an equity maturity model that quantitatively defines what equity looks like and identify cultural levers that can be adjusted to create systemic change.
This is not a training on personal behaviors. It is an opportunity to plan for equity like any other critical business function, identify measurable opportunities for improvement, and implement sustainable cost-effective solutions that yield social and financial returns.
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Meet the Speaker
Sara Sanford wants us to move from shared stories to shared data to eradicate workplace inequities.
She is the founder of GEN and the architect behind the GEN Certification, the first gold standard for intersectional equity in U.S. businesses, which has expanded to certify businesses globally. She is also an assistant professor at the University of Washington’s School of Information, where she teaches on the intersection of equity, ethics, and information science, and she is the author of Inclusion Inc: How to Design Intersectional Equity into the Workplace. Sara founded AdaMarie’s Inclusion Lab, a design-driven hub of approaches to closing opportunity gaps for women in STEM.
Sara helps organizations embrace the idea that changing mechanics, rather than mindsets, can create lasting change at scale. Her data-driven tools provide business leaders with tangible solutions they can incorporate into their organization’s culture, starting right now. They go beyond ‘vanity metrics’ to identify the cultural levers that businesses can adjust to counter the impact of bias.
Sara believes we now have the tools for all business to be equity-centered, if they choose to be. She is a popular TED Speaker , has been interviewed by the New York Times, advised NASA in their inclusive innovation efforts, and her book, Inclusion, Inc., is available through major online outlets.