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Keynote Speaker, Seminar Leader, Panelist
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following are a few examples of some his past high impact speeches, seminars and panel topics. The common dominator across all of these is a
highly energetic focus on innovative approaches that drive
results.
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Attendees of Joe's keynotes,
seminars and panels all agree as stated
by this participant that he is "a very
knowledgeable and engaging speaker
[who is] always very thought
provoking and educational.
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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
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