Thursday, September 26
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Friday, September 27
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11:00 Registration | Check-in | Virtual Attendees: Networking
Kick-off Event with Cozy Juicy Real --------------------------------------------- 11:30 Lunch (included in registration) --------------------------------------------- 12:00 Welcome | Opening --------------------------------------------- 12:15 Keynote: "Brave Spaces" - Joe Gerstandt --------------------------------------------- 1:15 Break | Photo Ops --------------------------------------------- 1:30 Session - "Embracing Vulnerability: Navigating Raw Conversations for Inclusive Change in Challenging Times" - David Doan --------------------------------------------- 2:30 Ice Cream Social with The Golden Scoop --------------------------------------------- 3:00 Session - "Faith in Humanity: Building Hope through Humanism" - Angela Cooper --------------------------------------------- 4:00 Keynote: "The Audacity to Awaken, Amplify and Ascend to Astronomical Heights!"- Kristie Kennedy --------------------------------------------- 5:00 Networking Social | Art Fair with diverse artists --------------------------------------------- 6:30 Social Ends | Dine Around options will be available --------------------------------------------- |
7:30 Check-in
--------------------------------------------- 8:00 Breakfast (included in registration) --------------------------------------------- 8:30 Welcome | Opening --------------------------------------------- 8:45 Keynote: "Create a Culture of Belonging" - Curtis Hill --------------------------------------------- 10:15 Break | Photo Ops --------------------------------------------- 10:30 Session - "Boldly Embodied: Empowering Every Body" - Sarah Phelps --------------------------------------------- 11:30 Lunch Buffet (included in registration) --------------------------------------------- 12:00 Session - "Audaciously Shattering Stereotypes and Building Support: Lessons from Pioneering Leaders" - Ruki and Patti Neuhold-Ravikumar --------------------------------------------- 1:00 Keynote: "Audacious Accessibility: From Exclusion to Inclusion" - Rebekah Taussig --------------------------------------------- 1:55 Closing --------------------------------------------- 2:00 Book Signing | Diversity Book Fair | Photo Ops --------------------------------------------- 2:30 Inclusion Summit Ends --------------------------------------------- |
Joe Gerstandt
Speaker, Author, Advisor joe gerstandt
Joe Gerstandt is a speaker, author and advisor bringing greater clarity, action, and impact to organizational diversity and inclusion efforts. Joe has worked with Fortune 100 corporations, small non-profits, government entities, and everything in between. He speaks at numerous conferences and summits, and is a featured contributor for the Workforce Diversity Network Expert Forum. His insights have been published in Diversity Best Practices, Diversity Executive, HR Executive, numerous other print and on-line journals, and he co-authored the book Social Gravity: Harnessing the Natural Laws of Relationships. Joe has served on the Intersectional Culture and Diversity Advisory (ICD) Council for the social networking platform, Twitter, and the U.S. Technical Advisory Group’s Diversity and Inclusion Working Group within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and the board of directors for the Tri-Faith Initiative, which brings together into permanent residency a synagogue, church, mosque, and interfaith center on one 38-acre campus in the middle of America’s heartland. By its very model it challenges people of faith and goodwill to be conscious and proactive about the assets of faith in civil life in a religiously pluralistic society. Tri-Faith Initiative aims to create a more inclusive culture in which religious pluralism is socially normative. Joe grew up on a family farm in NW Iowa, served four years in the United States Marine Corps, including participation in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, attended Iowa State University, and then spent 6 years working in management and business development for technology and communication companies. He then made a career change and went to work for a grassroots non-profit organization, and this is where he found himself drawn to issues related to diversity and inclusion and then became actively involved in that work. Today, Joe believes that we can ill afford to continue applying a 20th century approach to an increasingly critical set of 21st century issues. A strong advocate for resetting the diversity and inclusion conversation, Joe sees diversity and inclusion as poorly understood and often misunderstood. His keynote messages and interactive workshops bring greater clarity, action, and impact to existing and new organizational diversity & inclusion efforts. |
Kristie Kennedy
Women's Worth & Wellness Expert, TEDx Audacious Leadership Transformational Speaker kristie kennedy
Kristie Kennedy, is a Women's Worth & Wellness Expert, TEDx Audacious Leadership Transformational Speaker. The Image Confidence Expert is an Audacious Leadership Keynote Speaker and Authentic Lifestyle Author. As the owner of Queenfidence Global Image Consulting her electrifying inspirational gift empowers visionaries with confidence and clarity keys to find their voice, free their voice and fortify their voice. She specializes in four areas of peak performance: mindset mastery, massive momentum, magnetic messaging and potential maximization. She is a Certified Radical Resilience Coach who builds powerhouse mindsets, equipped for success. Kristie's evocative teaching style elevates your self-perception from stuck to unstoppable, invisible to invincible and timid to tenacious. Her bodacious belief is a testament that you can shift from mediocrity to magnificence one daring action step at a time. |
Curtis Hill
Founder & CEO of Culture of Belonging™ DEI&B Strategist & Author curtis hill
Curtis Hill is Founder & CEO of Culture of Belonging™, Global Keynote Speaker and a DEI&B Strategist & Author. In today’s world, DEI&B should no longer just be components in cultivating fair, safe and effective business environments – they are a must. That’s where diversity strategist, educator, author, speaker, and trainer Curtis Hill comes in. Curtis brings audiences and empowering message of awareness, culture and resilience, combined with a potent mix of savvy business skills honed from a lifetime of raw and well-crafted experiences. Growing up in Chicago, Curtis quickly drifted into a life of violence and crime and quickly rose to become one of the city’s most recognizable and notorious gang members. But, while dealing drugs earned him a six-figure per month bankroll, it cost him everything when he witnessed the cold-blooded murder of his best friend and came face-to-face with the immense suffering it caused in his community. Consequently, Curtis turned to education to springboard his street smarts into solid business acumen. After earning four degrees, including a Master of Arts in Teach, an M.ED in Administration and Supervision, and he holds a Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma, Curtis now travels the globe working with corporations, associations, and organization to Create A Culture Of Belonging™ to maximize people, profits and productivity. In addition, his unique way of communicating complex issues like race and division with humor and humanity keeps audiences engaged with laughter while they learn. From a virtual or physical stage, Curtis delivers message to senior leaders, HR professionals, sales professionals, service provider, and educators with high energy, purposeful passion, and solid strategies that create a long-lasting and significant difference in their personal and professional lives. |
Rebekah Taussig
Disability Advocate, Educator and Best-Selling Author Sitting Pretty rebekah taussig
Rebekah Taussig, Disability Advocate, Educator & Best-Selling Author, Sitting Pretty, will challenge everything you think you know about disability as she invites us into her experience of living in a body that looks and moves differently than most. “what would it mean for disabled folks if society saw us as acceptable, equal, valuable parts of the whole?” she writes I her memoir, Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body (HarperOne). Taussig, who has been paralyzed since the age of three, is a mom, wife, author, disability advocate and educator with a Ph.D in creative nonfiction and disability studies. Before pivoting to writing, speak, and consulting, Taussig taught passionately for almost a decade from freshmen in high school to upper-level college classes and continues to offer writing workshops. She is also one hell of a fighter on a mission to show that disabled people have incredible value; as she argues, a more inclusive world is a sturdier, kinder, more imaginative world for all of us. A storyteller at heart with a great sense of humor, Taussig invites us to think bigger and more critically about who has a seat at the table and the barriers that bar others from inclusion. She’s held talks and workshops at the University of Michigan, Davidson College and Yale University on disability representation, identity and community, and her writing appears in publications from TIME to Refinery29. She’s been a guest on a myriad of podcasts and also runs the Instagram platform @sitting_pretty, where she crafts “mini-memoirs” for her more than 50,000 followers to contribute nuance to the collective narratives being told about disability in our culture. Taussig is the recipient of the Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Literary Nonfiction for Sitting Pretty. |
Angela Cooper
she | her | hers CEO, Founder, and Principal Consultant Mindpower Strategic, LLC In a world grappling with ethical dilemmas, polarizing politics, and relentless waves of disturbing news, what gives us hope and direction? Join us on a personal and collective journey as we seek moral truth, challenge conventional beliefs, and replace old ways of thinking, together. This thought-provoking session aims to build understanding, alignment, and connection across divides…offering a fresh, hopeful perspective on human goodness and a new mindset to carry our shared convictions forward.
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