Inclusion Exclusion: Identifying, Understanding, and Fixing Ineffective Diversity Programs

Career Level: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level career services, university relations and recruiting, and business affiliate professionals
Competency: Organizing information, logistics, people, and processes toward desired outcomes
Fee: $49 (member); $69 (nonmember);

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Summary
In this employer-focused webinar, participants will learn to reimagine the relationship between “diversity” and “inclusion” to understand why many diversity programs fail. Not surprisingly, most diversity programs are not increasing diversity. Organizations basically double down on the same approaches they have used since the 1960s—which often make things worse, not better. Studies prove that this kind of force-feeding can activate bias rather than stamp it out. This often results from improperly grouping “diversity” and “inclusion” together as one unified concept. When considered and implemented separately, however, “inclusion” practices often accomplish an organization’s “diversity” goals. Participants will leave empowered with inclusion: strategies for realizing genuine employment equality.

Following this program, you will be able to:
- Enhance awareness and knowledge of data and research reflecting the widespread ineffectiveness of “diversity” initiatives despite their growing prevalence;
- Redefine the relationship between “diversity” and “inclusion” to understand why many common “diversity” strategies decrease, rather than increase, diversity; and
- Discover effective, practical, and readily implemented “inclusion” strategies for developing culture, realizing potential, increasing productivity, and accomplishing “diversity.”
Presenters

William Murphy, Career Advisor, St. John's University - New York
William Murphy has more than a decade of experience researching, creating, implementing, managing, and litigating diversity and inclusion initiatives spanning the public, legal, private, and educational sectors. At St. John’s University, he currently teaches advanced-level employment and labor law courses, emphasizing Title VII and equal employment opportunity concepts. His recent, related diversity and inclusion research, “Distinguishing Diversity from Inclusion: Legal Necessity or Common Sense Conclusion?,” was presented at both the 2018 MBAA International and Academy of Legal Studies in Business annual conferences and received the 2018 Jackson Lewis Employment Law Award. Previously, Murphy represented both employers and employees engaged in labor and employment disputes from inception through resolution as a senior associate to a New York-based labor and employment law firm. His practice primarily included the litigation of complex Title VII, FLSA, and collective bargaining cases, as well as direct client counseling in the areas of recruitment, management, compliance, and developing inclusive and productive workplace culture. He has lectured extensively on topics involving employment discrimination, equal employment opportunity, and diversity and inclusion at continuing legal education programs throughout the tri-state area.