Examples of Past Popular short to 30 to 60 minute Speech Topics:

• Topic 1 – You Hired Me, So Why Not Take All of Me? - How and why everyone 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" that features your authentic brand no matter who you are (women, minority, white, etc) can make you more memorable and take you one step closer to being more effective and valued in any setting.
• Topic 3 – Networking for Success - If you don't think networking is for you unless you are looking for a job or career development, this keynote will get you to think again and see how networking today is truly a requirement for job performance success!
• Topic 4 – Building a Truly Powerful Personal Network - An inspiring and informative discussion on how top networkers across all dimensions of diversity build the diverse connections they need to drive creative and innovative value to their organizations
• Topic 5 – Raising Your Personal Brand & Goal Awareness- 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.
• Topic 6 – Packaging Your Personal Diverse Brand - Participants in this discussion will become more keenly aware of how to communicate their unique diverse identity in order to clearly convey their goals and unique offerings
• Topic 7 - Finding The Diamonds in Your Own Backyard - Built on Joe's firm belief in "Positive Deviance," this discussion shows how many best practices can be found right within your walls while excursions into what competitors are doing often fall short.
• Topic 8 - Never Ever Let Up! - This short inspiring, humorous talk that focuses on why you should fully enjoy your diversity and inclusion successes without becoming complacent.
• Topic 9 - How Can You Help Your Team Appreciate Colleagues with Bright Shiny Noses? - This interactive presentation addressing business leaders focuses on and brings home in a very clear, engaging yet light-hearted way the role of leaders in driving inclusion.

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 – Going Beyond Cost Cuts and 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 – Recognizing and Getting Past Our Own Biases- In this highly interactive seminar participants will see evidence of their own biases and develop techniques to see past them 
• Topic 8 – Using Our Personal and Social Diversity to Drive Innovation- This fun seminar is designed to help participants access the full range of the diversity within themselves and the people around them in order to generate creative and innovative approaches and solutions.
• Topic 9 – Setting Winning Diversity & Inclusion Partnership Goals- This fast-paced seminar is designed to help participants from any function outside the diversity practice who are partnering for diversity results to identify and set specific and achievable joint strategies.

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 seeing and overcoming unconscious bias
• (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
• (13) How to use a Positive Deviance to produce innovative D&I results
• (14) How to use applied diversity and inclusion to produce innovative approaches
• (15) How awards and rankings mark your place at a point-in-time in your D&I journey