Diversity and Inclusion for Managers:
Addressing Workplace Bias

In today’s companies, workplace culture and values are becoming more and more important to workers.

Being aware of how workplace bias shows up in your company can attract or repel top talent. This session will provide a safe and supportive environment for future leaders/managers to explore common workplace biases and provide solutions so that they can foster an inclusive work culture.

Learning Objectives

1. Exploring common workplace biases
2. Learn tips to mitigate bias in your workplace
3. Create an action plan for your team

This program is ideal for:  all people who want to learn more how to identify workplace bias

Cost: Free for SLA Members. $50 non-member. $30 nonprofits.

Individuals who are either unemployed or connected with an employer who is unable to pay can request scholarships for any of our programs.

About Our Facilitator

Kim Yarborough has a master’s degree in Business Psychology. She works with men and women who want to learn to lead with confidence. She also works with new managers who are just starting out how to lead. She has over 26 years of experience in the public sector leading and managing employees.

Virtual 2-Part Series

Session #1: 
Tuesday, December 19
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Session #2: 
Wednesday, December 20
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

The only thing you have control over in your career is YOU. Everything you say and do tells people who you are and the value you bring. Does your resume tell your story? What do people think when they read your LinkedIn profile? Learn important steps you can make today to ensure a consistent brand message and story.

Learning Objectives

1. Review opportunities to tell a story, verbal and non-verbal.
2. Creating a brand message to help you stand out from the competition.
3. Provide examples of how others told their story.

This program is ideal for:  anyone

Cost: Free for SLA Members. $250 non-member. $200 nonprofits.

Individuals who are either unemployed or connected with an employer who is unable to pay can request scholarships for any of our programs.

About Our Facilitator

Susan Caplan is a professional development and communication specialist with a Bachelor of Science in Education and over 15 years as an author, speaker, and consultant. Susan is a Professional Development Advisor at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, author of the Marketing Yourself to the Real World™ book series, and Founder and President of SC Associates, LLC with work receiving the PR NEWs Digital PR Award and Publicity Club of Chicago Silver Trumpet Award. Susan serves on various advisory boards including Women and Drones (UAS, AAM), Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering SOTY Board of Judges, College Career Consortium of Illinois, and Midwest Association of Colleges and Employers.

From Inbox Chaos to Control: Email Management

We’re all bombarded with emails. We can’t make them go away – wait, actually – yes, we can, at least some of them.

In this session, we will discuss personal habits to develop tools that can automate message processing, and tricks we can use to manage our e-mails more efficiently. I’ll share a personal favorite tip that repurposes a tool you use every single day to help you spend less time on e-mail.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn strategies and habits for managing your inbox
2. Discover auto-processing tools that do some of the work for you
3. Discuss time-saving techniques for processing emails

This program is ideal for:  anyone looking to be more efficent

Cost: Free for SLA Members. $50 non-member. $30 nonprofits.

Individuals who are either unemployed or connected with an employer who is unable to pay can request scholarships for any of our programs.

About Our Facilitator

Janet Jackson is passionate about three things: her faith, her family, and helping others find time to pursue their passions, professionally and personally. She started Organization Solutions, LLC, in 2001, because she loves people and hates inefficiency.

Prior to starting Organization Solutions, Janet spent six years with Honda of America Manufacturing where she served as the Purchasing Lead on a corporate-wide software implementation, ensuring business and system processes were efficient and effective. She left Honda in 2000 to start Organization Solutions and to have more time for her biggest priority, being a mom.

Janet attended Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, where she double majored in Business Administration and Psychology. She graduated with honors in 1993. While at Taylor, she continued to grow her desire and ability to serve as a leader, which was cultivated initially by her ten-year involvement with Indiana 4-H.

With Indiana roots, Janet and family are currently planted in Ohio. She speaks regionally and nationally to bring increased organization, productivity, and efficiency to businesses and individuals.

Virtual 2-Part Series

Session #1: 
Wednesday, January 24
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Session #2: 
Thursday, January 25
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

The purpose of this two-part workshop is to unpack definitions of “failure”, assessing their roots and effects, so that individuals may reclaim emotional control and build confidence.
Participants will develop new interpretations of failure as well as establish a practice of self-compassion and self-forgiveness, along with the creating their own basis for a system of emotional and stress release. What we really fear is what failure will do to us

Learning Objectives

1. Excavate the roots of our feelings around failure through gentle guidance and questioning
2. Assess the damage inflicted by our mindset and expose the fallacy of those “failure” definitions

This program is ideal for:  everyone

Cost: Free for SLA Members. $250 non-member. $200 nonprofits.

Individuals who are either unemployed or connected with an employer who is unable to pay can request scholarships for any of our programs.

About Our Facilitator

Emily Morash — A multi-disciplined, ever-curious professional, Emily cut her teeth in the nonprofit world, creating and launching organizations and strengthening existing operations.

With a robust sense of purpose and an irrepressible sense of humor, she embraced the vast nonprofit sector with grace and fervor.

After two successful decades in the nonprofit field, Emily shifted her focus to leadership and team development consulting, with a heavy focus on empathy and mindfulness, founding Hampton Morash, LLC, while also sharing her entrepreneurial and nonprofit management knowledge through teaching at the collegiate level.

Emily teaches graduate courses for Johnson and Wales University and is a lead instructor for the Accelerated Training Center for Workforce Development at Columbus State Community College. She has also instructed workforce development and leadership development classes for Community College of Rhode Island and Bryant University.

Emily received a double B.A. in Sociology and Psychology from the University of Tennessee and earned her M.S. in Community Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire University.

She is a certified mediator, mindfulness and REBT coach, Everything DiSC® certified partner, Five Behaviors™ certified partner, and the creator of The Mindful Leader Practice™.

Sporting a robust portfolio, Emily is a professional facilitator, public speaker, and business consultant.