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Session Description
In Episode 51: “Recognizing & Overcoming Microaggressions – Part 1,” Melinda Briana Epler answers the most often-asked questions about microaggressions: what they are, how humans are impacted by them, and examples of alternative language that can replace common verbal microaggressions in the workplace.
Objectives:
1) Understanding what microaggressions in the workplace are.
2) Learn how we are impacted by them.
3) Discover alternative language that replaces common verbal microaggressions.
Talent Development Capability Model -
Building Personal Capability- Culture Awareness and Inclusion
Agenda
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm Welcome/Virtual Icebreaker
6:20 pm - 7:35 pm- Presentation
7:35 pm - 7:50 pm - Discussion Q&A
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm Announcements/Closing
About Melinda
Melinda Briana Epler has 25 years of experience elevating brands and developing business innovation strategies for startups, Fortune 500 companies, and global NGOs.
As CEO of Change Catalyst, Melinda works with her clients and partners to solve diversity and inclusion together. Using her background in storytelling, behavioral science, and large-scale culture change, she is a strategic advisor for companies, innovation hubs, and governments around the world. She also co-founded Tech Inclusion, a series of global solutions-focused conferences where she partnered with over 450 tech companies and community organizations and hosted over 50 solutions-focused diversity and inclusion events. Previously, Melinda was a Marketing and Culture Executive and award-winning documentary filmmaker.
Melinda is a TED speaker who speaks, mentors, and writes about diversity and inclusion, inclusive innovation, empathy, and entrepreneurship. She is the author of the upcoming book How to Be an Ally (McGraw-Hill) and the host of the popular “Leading With Empathy & Allyship” podcast. She has spoken on hundreds of stages worldwide, including SXSW, Grace Hopper, Wisdom 2.0, the World Bank, White House, Clinton Foundation, Black Enterprise, Google, Indeed, Capital One, UC Berkeley, and McKinsey.
Website: https://changecatalyst.co/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melindaepler/
