Chair: Ilene Wasserman, ICW Consulting Group/Wharton Leadership/PCOM AppliedPsychology
Chair: Bernardo M. Ferdman, Ferdman Consulting
Panelist: Nene Molefi, D. of Gender and Diversity in Organizations
Panelist: Melanie Harrington, -
Panelist: NIru Kumar, Ask Insights
Panelist: Mary Waceke, wacekethecoach
Panelist: Naseem Yasin, Diverse and Inclusive Solutions
Panelist: Bill De La Cruz, De La Cruz Solutions
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| Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) advocates around the world are mobilizing to make these practices central in the world’s future. Interest in improving connections between scholarly research and practice has grown in the Academy in recent years. This requires addressing the Academy’s commitment to bridge advancements in practice and scholarship so that they inform each other. The Centre for Global Inclusion and The FutureWork Institute have embarked on a DEI Futures Initiative to determine actions we can take now to positively influence the future to forge a central role for diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Initiative focuses on how lessons learned from DEI advocacy can help influence how we address the most complex and critical issues facing the world, such as climate change, healthcare, migration, education, and others. The DEI Futures Initiative, including over 150 people from around the globe, has developed individual and collective actions that can lead that future. This session will invite and engage participants in this ongoing conversation, building on progress to date, to ensure including and leveraging principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion as influential forces in our future path. The organizers and panelists include a broad cross-section of participants in the DEI Futures Initiative, representing depth and breadth of global experience in the field, primarily as practitioners, thus affording participants a rich opportunity to build bridges between academia and practice in this arena. Highlights of the DEI Futures Initiative will provide grounding for discussions on lessons learned and possibilities collaborations to pursue. |