Diversity: Where Do We Go From Here?

Where is your organization “at” with respect to diversity? Dr. Roosevelt Thomas has been a pioneer in his work with CEOs and executive teams regarding matters of diversity management. In his assessment, most organizations today find themselves in one of two groups. Many have worked hard at diversity but are looking for a new strategy to get them to the next level. Others have yet to make much headway.

Update: You’ve missed the live event, but it is not too late to benefit from Roosevelt Thomas’ research, experience and strategic framework constructions regarding the challenges of diversity management. Using our on-demand audio and data screaming technology, you can access the recording, including all audio, visual and printed components for two weeks for $299.00. Or you can purchase a CD of the event, which will have the same rich audio and visual content on a self-executing disk for $399.00. Since you can watch as many times as you like, it’s like having Roosevelt Thomas as an in house expert.

Recording Format Two Week Online, On-Demand Access $299.00 CD Package (full audio & visual) $399.00

Expanding the Diversity Paradigm

Dr. Thomas’ latest research shines light on the nature of the challenges organizations face. Every organization operates under its own beliefs about diversity, a set of assumptions that shape the strategy they employ. Some are focused on making amends for past wrongs; others aim to apply the Golden Rule of fairness and respect; while still others want to maximize individual or stakeholder engagement. Most of those organizations are stuck within their own particular paradigm, predisposed to a particular approach, and unable to develop a new strategy that will lift them to the next level.

In this 90-minute interactive webinar, Dr. Thomas will lead us in a vigorous and interesting discussion about the challenges of diversity management. By enabling you to understand the paradigm your organization currently operates under, you will be able to better grasp and implement the right approach for advancing your diversity objectives.

In particular, Dr. Thomas will discuss:

1. The distinctions between diversity and diversity management
2. How to surface and address the diversity paradigm under which your organization operates
3. The 4 approaches organizations employ to manage diversity
4. How to develop and implement approaches that meet your strategic goals
5. The importance of ensuring that an organization’s culture supports its diversity aspirations
6. How best practice organizations are going beyond race and gender to think about culture
7. The difference between diversity and complexity
8. Why complexity management may represent the new universal approach

Over the past 20 years, Dr. R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr., has been at the forefront of developing and implementing innovative concepts and strategies for maximizing organizational and individual potential through Diversity Management. As the industry thought leader, Dr. Thomas, CEO of Roosevelt Thomas Consulting & Training, has moved the concept of diversity to new levels of application. His leading edge constructs of Diversity and Managing Diversity have been widely circulated in his books: Building a House for Diversity; Beyond Race and Gender; Redefining Diversity; and Building on the Promise of Diversity, considered landmark works in the diversity field. Dr. Thomas was selected as one of the top 10 thought-leaders working in the area of organizational change in the book, The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching: 50 Top Executive Coaches Reveal Their Secrets.