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From Joe Santana, the man Howard Rubin, EVP and Board Member of META Group described as “the first to tie-in from end-to-end the role of . . . people in . . . achieving business . . . results” here are examples of some his past high impact speeches, seminars and panel topics. The common dominator across all of these is a focus on approaches that drive results through out of the box innovative thinking.

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Examples of Past Popular 30 to 60 minute Speech Topics:

  • Topic 1 – Leveraging Your Hispanic Values in Corporate America - How Hispanic-Americans can and should bring all of their heritage, experience, perspectives and values into their careers to fully benefit themselves and their organizations
  • Topic 2 – Memorable Self-Introductions for Everyone - How presenting the right "personal commercial" no matter who you are (women, minority, etc) can make you more memorable and take you one step closer to being more effective and valued in any setting.
  • Topic 3 – Building a Truly Powerful Diverse Personal Network - An inspiring and informative discussion on how top networkers across all dimensions of diversity build the connections they need to drive value to their organizations and succeed
  • Topic 4 – Raising Your Personal Brand & Goal Awareness - Participants in this discussion will become more keenly aware of how clear their goals and offering are perceived by others (A first step towards taking charge of your personal brand).
  • Topic 5 – Being all that you are- Participants in this discussion will be inspired to fully tap into the complete range of their diverse characteristics that make them uniquely valuable to themselves and their organizations.

Examples of Past Seminar ⁄ Workshop Topics:

  • Topic 1 – Ending the Diversity Program Sisyphus Trap- Using a Capability Maturity Model (CMM) approach to measure and improve your company's diversity practices
  • Topic 2 – Doing More Then Just Getting More for Your Diversity Budget Dollars- Using a Portfolio Management approach to reduce non-ROI diversity dollar spend and invest more in long and near term ROI producing items
  • Topic 3 – Putting Business Rigor into Your Diversity Strategy- How to re-purpose traditional business tools (SWOTs, Backward Planning, CMM,  Budget Portfolio Management, Etc) to put business rigor around your diversity practices (This is a longer seminar that combines and adds to the elements in Topics 1 and 2)
  • Topic 4 – ERG 2.0 Taking Your Network to the Next Level- How to designed and develop an Employee Resource Group plan that meets the needs of members and the company (This is a highly focused discussion that results in a clear strategy)
  • Topic 5 – Mentors for Everyone- Everyone needs mentors whether they want to go up the ladder or just do a superb job or balance life and work. This seminar teaches participants how to identify the mentors they need and become the protégé that these mentor want to help.
  • Topic 6 – Making the Transition from Individual Contributor to Manager- This seminar is designed to help participants, especially those without role models, to determine if a career in managing is right for them and to outline the steps they need to take to transition towards this new role even if they lack role models in their lives.
  • Topic 7 – Engaging Your Full Range of Diversity in order to Innovate- This seminar is designed to help participants access their full range of diversity in order to generate creative, "out-of-the-box thinking," solutions

Past Panel Discussion as a Participant and Moderator:

Joe’s thought-stimulating panel responses - when he is a participant - and questions - when he is a moderator - always focus squarely on thought stimulating topics for diversity practitioners, organizational talent development and other executive audiences, such as:

  • (1) Seeing and addressing the signs of emerging new best practices in your company
  • (2) How to move diversity practices from people-driven to institutionally-driven 
  • (3) How B2B companies address their unique diversity opportunities and challenges
  • (4) Addressing the converging impact of new media, old media, globalization and diversity
  • (5) How to target and drive tangible returns from diversity investments
  • (6) Beyond building Human Capital; building Social Network Capital
  • (7) Sales Strategy Driven Supplier Diversity (It's not just a procurement program)
  • (8) How to institutionalize the creation of diverse networks
  • (9) Strategies for institutionally overcoming unconscious bias in your organization
  • (10) What to do to make diversity training produce a return on investment
  • (11) How to create a "real" diversity mentoring program that develops leaders
  • (12) How to target and get the external ranking and branding your company needs