Diversity and Inclusion:  60 Tips in 75 Minutes (or less)

 No matter what role you fill in your firm, diversity and inclusion is your responsibility.  This is not just a human resource topic.

Wonder what the big deal is about diversity and inclusion?  Wonder what the difference is between diversity and inclusion?  Wonder how to get your firm thinking about incorporating diversity and inclusion into its culture?  Wonder how it impacts your business, your recruiting, your retention, your bottom line and what you can do about it?  Wonder how diversity and inclusion helps you make better decisions, choices and action plans? Wonder what you can do to make a difference?  Ever wonder where to start, how to move an existing program to greater heights or how to learn more about diversity and inclusion?

This presentation will answer all of those questions as we move through a rapid fire presentation of 60 Tips on Diversity and Inclusion.  No matter where you and your firm or law department are on the spectrum of making diversity and inclusion imperative in your business, you are bound to come away with at least a few tips and several excellent resources for use in your world.  Join us to expand your knowledge on the topic and move your firm or department ahead on diversity and inclusion.  You'll leave with a copy of the presentation and a list of resources.

60 Tips in 75 Minutes is brought to you by ALA's Committee on Diversity and Inclusion.  The Committee is currently taking this session on the road to several chapters across the country.  In advance of the meeting, we invite you to visit the Harvard Implicit Association Tests at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html and to visit our ALA webpage, http://www.alanet.org/diversity/.

Jenniffer Brown is the Firm Administrator for Weiner, Millo, Morgan & Bonanno, LLC in New York and a Vice President on the ALANYC Chapter Board. As Immediate Past Chair of the ALANYC Diversity and Inclusion Committee, she led the committee to unprecedented progress towards their goal of bringing diversity awareness to the chapter.  Along with her team, she implemented many new and unique programs and ideas, including a presentation on Neurodiversity and other invisible disabilities; held their first movie night with a showing of the movie Dislecksia; and guided the chapter to publish its first diversity and inclusion newsletter, Prism. Recently, Jenniffer was a member of the planning team for ALANYC’s innovative bi-coastal diversity and leadership masterclass event.Jenniffer Brown is Chair of the ALA Committee on Diversity and Inclusion for the 2016-2017 term.

This presentation will count towards 75 minutes of HR credit for CLM Recertification or towards the additional hours needed by Functional Specialists applying for the exam, as long as HR is not your area of specialty.

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