Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price $75.00
Non-Member Price $89.00
Overview
Organizations must be intentional in cultivating environments where diverse team members can thrive, feel empowered to make recommendations and take chances. Initiatives to help leaders, both men and women, identify unconscious bias will benefit the morale and increase the retention and advancement of diverse leaders. The instructor will use various scenarios and their own lessons learned as a STEM leader as well as a finance leader.
Objectives
- Identify and develop a business case for diversity initiatives
- Identify techniques to counter unconscious bias
- Identity skills needed to take a seat at the Executive table
Highlights
Designed For
Professionals in leadership roles
Prerequisites
None
Notice
You will receive an email from the AICPA with instructions to access the webinar.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Jennifer Elder, Educational Speaker, The Sustainable CFO
Jennifer Elder, CPA, CMA, CIA, CFF, CGMA helps businesses survive in turbulent times with strategic solutions. For more than 20 years, she has been helping organizations future-proof their business by solidifying their strengths, developing eternal vigilance, and creating a future-focused mindset. As a consultant and keynote speaker Jennifer is known for being energetic and enthusiastic, She has conducted seminars for the Fortune 500, the US Government, State CPA Societies, and CPA firms in 44 states and 2 countries. She is a business generalist and an accounting expert who can make the complicated simple, awesomely simple. She is a published author, named a “2015 Woman to Watch” by the AICPA and MACPA, and been awarded Outstanding Educator bythe AICPA for the past three years. When not on the road teaching, she is either living on her boat on Chesapeake Bay or skiing the slopes of New Hampshire with her husband and two cats (no the cats don’t ski!)
Jina Etienne, Founder & Principal Consultant, Etienne Consulting
Jina is a consultant and speaker on diversity, inclusion, culture and belonging. She creates training programs and workshops on inclusive leadership, leadership development, unconscious bias, self-awareness and conscious communications, cultural sensitivity and inclusivity, understanding authenticity, and fostering belonging. She also provides executive coaching for business leaders, managers and entrepreneurs to help them improve workplace relationships, team performance and interpersonal effectiveness to lead an increasingly diverse workforce by improving self-awareness, building mindfulness and speaking comfortably and effectively on equity, inclusion and diversity. She is a story-teller and speaks candidly about her experiences, hard lessons and ‘aha’ moments that helped her understand the importance individuality, the value of curiosity and the courage it takes to “just” be yourself. Often described as “approachable” and “relatable” by her clients, she works with purpose and the intention of being engaging, practical, and immediately applicable to real-world situations. Jina draws from her unique background and mix of work experiences to offer examples and share insights designed to benefit everyone across the workplace ecosystem – executives, management, employees and customers. Previously, she was Principal Consultant at EtiennePartners (EP) , a boutique consulting firm that offered a unique strategy development, workshops & coaching to leaders, executives and entrepreneurs. Co-founded with her husband, EP was a full-time partnership in both work and life. Although in different professions, their work often intersected around the importance of self-awareness in leadership and navigating conflict within teams. Combining their experiences, backgrounds and work led to the development of their unique approach to D&I, which she continues to use in her practice today.
Non-Member Price $89.00
Member Price $75.00