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REALITIES: A DEI Education Series by Nonprofit HR
Are your leaders truly ready to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce? Closely examining how your leaders manage your workplace culture can have a critical impact on your success. The 2019 Nonprofit Talent Retention Practices Survey revealed that 21% of respondents prematurely left organizations due to dissatisfaction/disengagement with current leadership. From recent headlines, it is clear that employees are seeking more outlets to voice their perspectives. What’s also clear is that employees of all backgrounds are holding organizations and their leaders accountable for living the values they preach.
Sign up now and explore ways to:
- Ways to initiate courageous conversations about DEI with out-of-touch leaders
- Determine if your organization’s culture is being experienced differently based on age, gender, race and other differences
- How to internally and externally highlight and celebrate your leaders’ wins for building and sustaining a healthy, engaged and mission-driven culture
Discussion Leaders
Emily Holthaus Managing Director, DEI Nonprofit HR Emily Holthaus is known for collaborating with organizations to design organizational strategy and implement leadership development solutions toward the outcomes of greater equity, inclusion and human capital engagement in both physical and virtual environments. Prior to serving as Nonprofit HR’s lead Diversity, Equity & Inclusion consultant, Emily served as the Director of Multicultural Leadership Development for YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) where she worked to identify, engage, inspire, develop, and retain multicultural staff to ensure the leadership of YMCAs reflects the diverse communities they serve. Emily was also a key member of the Y-USA’s Talent & Knowledge Management senior team that led the development of strategy and implementation of training solutions to support a nationwide workforce of more than 250,000 employees. She holds a (BA) from Iowa State University and a Master’s Degree in Leadership and Management from Concordia University. In her spare time, she enjoys creating art and music, playing sports, traveling, and spending quality time with her husband Chad and young sons Jack and Cameron. | Angela Glover Blackwell Founder in Residence PolicyLink Angela Glover Blackwell is Founder in Residence at PolicyLink, the organization she started in 1999 to advance racial and economic equity for all. Under Angela’s leadership, PolicyLink gained national prominence in the movement to use public policy to improve access and opportunity for all low-income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, and infrastructure. Her Radical Imagination podcast debuted in September 2019, introducing listeners to a world of creative, progressive thinkers whose vision is challenging the status quo to create the change we need. Prior to founding PolicyLink, Angela served as Senior Vice President at The Rockefeller Foundation. A lawyer by training, she gained national recognition as founder of the Urban Strategies Council. From 1977 to 1987, Angela was a partner at Public Advocates. Angela is the co-author of Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future, and she authored The Curb Cut Effect, published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review in 2017. Learn more about Angela. |
About this webinar series: Nonprofit HR’s REALITIES webinar series topics are driven by priorities which nonprofits have reported to us, and cover everything from workforce development, recruitment, talent attraction and recruitment, workplace culture and beyond. Each session will be addressed through the lens of race and will incorporate facets of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging practices in talent management.
Access resources, stories and tools to support your DEI journey to a more inclusive workforce!