2012 Pennsylvania Diversity Council Agenda

The focus of this annual event is to will bring together a diverse mix of successful women leaders who, through the discussion of topics relevant to today’s issues will educate, inspire and encourage women to reflect on their own goals and status as they strive to move higher within their organizations.

This annual event, which includes participants with diverse ethnicities, backgrounds and experiences, is held in order to share best practices in the areas of diversity inclusion. It is also a time to recognize individuals and corporations for their leadership, achievement, and commitment to diversity and inclusion.

The Talent Summit is an all day learning event designed to help companies maximize the talents and skills of current employees as well as learn best practices on recruiting a diverse workforce. Your organization can incorporate new talent management strategies to utilize employee engagement as the economy recovers, amplify the productivity of your workforce as the employment market shifts, as well as get current on the latest employment branding, recruiting, retention, and engagement trends practiced by model companies with outstanding employees relations. After attending this conference you will walk away with a blueprint that you can implement in your organization. It is also a time to recognize individuals and corporations for their leadership, achievement, and commitment to diversity and inclusion.

This annual event is held to educate and create local dialogue on diversity and inclusion and to celebrate the wide array of differences in our communities. Participants have an opportunity to attend a wide array of workshops and hear from dynamic speakers that will increase their knowledge and understanding of a diverse workplace and community.

This initiative will help prepare college students to transition from college to the corporate environment. Our goal is to bring Corporate Executives to campuses to have direct dialogue with students. Our hope is that students will have an opportunity to learn, grow and prepare for their future success.

This event will foster leadership among college/university students, as well as, enhance communication and functioning in a multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural society through diversity dialogues and experience, in turn to promote excellence and success among college students through diversity efforts. The goals of this event are to (1) make equity the cornerstone of college students’ thoughts, actions and lives, (2) encourage contributions to the community by ensuring full representation and honoring the uniqueness of individuals from diverse backgrounds, (3) honor the uniqueness of individuals from diverse backgrounds, (4) create and provide intercultural and cross-cultural opportunities and experiences, (5) cultivate skill sets needed to discuss and deal with complex race/ethnicity, issues, about which we deeply disagree, including the current existence of discrimination in our society, and (6) prepare students for a diverse workplace.