Creating a workplace that embraces diversity and fosters inclusion has become not just a moral necessity, but a strategic requirement. We share 5 key strategies for building a diverse and inclusive workplace to cultivate a dynamic environment that thrives on collaboration and adapts to the ever-changing demands of the workplace.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) have certainly become buzzwords in recent years, as companies work to prioritize these efforts across their teams. And for good reason! Here at cred, diversity is a priority across all of our projects and client work. We maintain diversity goals for our events as well as represented speakers. In this blog, we outline 5 tips, from our own experience, to ensure the speaker lineup for your event is diverse.
Historically, marginalized communities face challenges related to accessibility, inclusion and finances when seeking opportunities to advance their knowledge and share their unique perspective to the world.
In our latest credTen, we highlight ten event scholarships that are working diligently to expand accessibility to underrepresented communities, elevate diversity of thought, and create opportunities for underrepresented groups to add their voices to the collective learning community.
Events are a chance for us to share and communicate new ideas with each other, but we know there is much room for improvement. As we actively become more intentional about our decisions across the industry, overlooking the lack of diversity at events is a non-negotiable. Though the conference space has a long way to go to improve, there are some bright spots bringing more representation to event stages and agendas.
From conferences dedicated to solely Black people, to our clients who are utilizing their voices to advocate for other Black entrepreneurs, to increased conversations around diversity at events, here are a couple of ways the industry is starting to change.
This week we had the opportunity to collaborate with Lightspeed and Rich Talent Group for their second annual Building Tomorrow’s Boardroom, Today, event—a virtual panel and intimate discussion breakouts focused on supporting and promoting more people of color to the boardroom, specifically from our Black community.
More than 150 leaders—from CEOs to investors to founders and board members—joined together to drive meaningful and necessary change.
This week cred was joined by Valerie Jackson (Procor), Lili Gangas (Kapor Center), and Wahab Owolabi (URx & Facebook) for an important discussion on how event professionals can incorporate diversity and inclusion into their events. Diving into the impact of agendas featuring all-female speakers, to tracks focused on tech for POC, this interactive panel shared their insights into what will shape the events industry and agendas curated moving forward.
Since May, the entire world has focused on how we, as a society, can listen and elevate the voices of minorities—specifically those in the Black and Brown community. One of the ways that we're doing that here at cred is by adding more Black/POC voices to the agendas of events that we plan and our speaker roster.
The other way we're doing this is in our newest credTen. Here are the top ten events that focus on diversity and elevating minority voices.
