Pamela
Abner
Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer, Diversity and Inclusion,
Mount Sinai Health System

11:05 am

11:05am-11:40am Leading with Equity: The Six Traits of Inclusive Leadership

General Session
Today’s most critical national conversation has filtered its way into boardrooms and workplaces across the nation. And as a result, today’s HR professionals are being called upon to guide those internal conversations focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion in order to remove biases inherently found in the workplace and to lead the transition to a new and more equitable norm.
This session is designed to help HR professionals with proven strategies for inclusion, anti-racism, and unconscious bias. In addition, you will learn how the six traits of inclusive leadership can directly support these strategies to actively create a more diverse, engaged, and future ready workforce.
 
In this session, you will learn:
- How racism, bias and white privilege manifests within organizations and the strategies HR professionals can implement to mitigate against it
- Highly effective and practical strategies for being an inclusive HR leader to foster an inclusive and equitable work environment
- How the six traits of inclusive leadership can be utilized to create a more diverse, inclusive, and future ready workforce
- How to develop an action-oriented and accountability driven DEI IQ strategy which requires leaders to recognize own biases and blind spots - and the education and awareness needed to improve ones’ cultural intelligence