Chicago OD Practitioners Network
Topic: Is DEI Dead or Just Hibernating?
Date: Friday, April 25, 2025
Location: Virtual, via Zoom
Time: 7:45-8:00 AM, CDT- networking
8:00-9:30 AM, CDT- program
Register: Send an email to CODPNetwork@gmail.com by Tuesday, April 22 (free program). You will receive a Zoom link the week of the program.
Program Description:
Everywhere we turn, DEI is on the decline. The past few months have been extraordinary in efforts to turn back the clock. In this interactive session, Andie Kramer will share her practical experience and lessons learned as lawyer, advocate, DEI program designer, and award-winning author. We will begin by discussing how DEI has become taboo against a relentless attack by the Administration. Andie will address the current efforts to rollback DEI initiators and efforts to forge a new path forward. Andie hopes to trigger a lively discussion so participants should be prepared to get involved in the discussion while learning tips to improve inclusion on the job in real time.
Objectives:
1. Participants will learn up to the minute news on the attack on DEI and the limited success of pushback.
2. Participants will jointly craft a way forward for advancing diversity by themselves and for their organizations.
3. Participants will leave the discussion with some tools they can use in more effectively communicating with others.
During the presentation, participants will be asked to share their observations and thoughts on moving forward and the focus will be on interactive development of techniques to support diverse colleagues.
About the Program Facilitator Andie Kramer.
Andie Kramer has worked vigorously for over 30 years to remove gender inequality from the workplace and to make women’s career opportunities more comparable to men’s. She is a nationally recognized authority on gender discrimination, the nature and operation of stereotypes and biases, and practices and policies to increase women’s leadership opportunities. In her presentations around the country, Andie draws on her research, work advocating for women, and professional experiences as both the founder of her own law firm, ASKramer Law, and her longtime experience as a partner in an international law firm where she served for 12 years on its Management Committee, three years on its Compensation Committee, and as head of the Gender Diversity Committee for over 20 years. She provides realistic and readily usable advice and solutions to move beyond bias. Andie along with her husband Al Harris is the co-author of three notable and award-winning books: Beyond Bias: The PATH to Ending Gender Inequality at Work (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2023), Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work (Nicholas Brealey, Second Edition 2020) and It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace: Women’s Conflict at Work and the Bias That Built It (Nicholas Brealey, 2019).
To register, send an email to CODNetwork@gmail.com by Tuesday , April 22 (free program). You will receive a Zoom link during that week of the program.
This networking event will inspire meaningful conversations as you connect and share with other Talent Development professionals.
Register now to join us for a Monday morning virtual cup of coffee!
