Your creative collaborator in building inclusive cultures
Working with organizations who value their people, growth, and believe in applying a Diversity and Inclusion lens to their Employee Value Proposition.
EmployeeEXP, Creating Better
Employee Experience Outcomes
In the mid-eighties I was a young gay woman just beginning to navigate a corporate career. A notable event of the time was that the first gay woman came out live on television. In that day there was no discussion about “bringing one’s whole self to work.” As well, there was no understanding of the direct link between an employee bringing their complete self to work and productivity, innovation and certainly not about what it might mean for organizational success.
Much has changed since that time. Talent-sensitive organizations who find themselves in a war for the best and brightest recognize the need to look beyond culture-fit to culture complement. To me, the direct route to innovation is through Diversity, Equity and Inclusion--it resides in creativity, imagination, and varying perspectives expressed when you bring together a diverse group of people to solve a single problem.
Project Examples:
Forum on Workplace Inclusion, 2020, Just before COVID-19 closed down live presentations...."Join us as the Ostrich rolls with five simple concepts for inclusive leadership found in the book “Reversing the Ostrich Approach to Diversity: Pulling Your Head out of the Sand.” In this fast-paced session, our friend the Ostrich introduces you to the Ostrich Wheel concepts that can easily be put to use for understanding inclusion from a personal, team, leader or organizational perspective."
MGMA, 2020 Winter Conference, Title: Leadership Development through a D&I Lens. Following the 5-Step Ostrich Wheel from our "Reversing the Ostrich Approach to Diversity: Pulling your head out of the sand" shared practical and easily applied models leaders, managers and individual contributors can use in creating inclusive cultures. www.ostrichwheel.com
AVIXA, Twin Cities Women's Council, Power Communication Skills for Women in AV. Introduced tools featured in Reversing the Ostrich Approach to Diversity: pulling your head out of the sand. Communication is central to fixing the "broken rung" as featured in McKinsey and LEAN IN's 2019 report on women in the workplace.
FEI Twin Cities, Professional Development, Diversity & Inclusion: People and Financial Perspectives, A popular question, "What is the 'business case' for creating intentional engagement in Diversity & Inclusion efforts?" While numerous sources illustrate how D&I impacts organizational performance, implementing and embracing talent-centric practices, policies and procedures will ultimately drive sustainability and growth. #cfo #businesscase
38th Annual ISCEBS Employee Benefits Symposium, New Orleans, LA. Title & Topic: The Intersection of Diversity & Inclusion and Total Rewards, the impact of EID on health outcomes, managing costs and attracting, retaining and engaging talent. (Evaluations: Great presentation! | Good content and a different way of thinking about messaging | One of best presentations I’ve attended | Excellent and really made people think | This by far was the best lecture of the conference for me) #19symp, #diversityequityandinclusion #totalrewards
IABC Convergence Summit, Minneapolis, MN. Title & Topic: What You Think Shapes What You Say. Is your bias showing?
31st Annual Conference, The Forum on Workplace Inclusion, Minneapolis, MN. Title & Topic: No Staff. No Resources. No Problem, assisting middle market organizations create inclusive cultures.
JA Counter, Outside the Box, Employer Symposium, New Richmond, WI. Title & Topic: Culture and Total Rewards, Collaborators in Attracting Top Talent, exploring innovative strategies to engage employees and deliver creative benefit plan designs.
McGough Women’s Initiative, Empowering to Lead, St. Paul, MN. Women Build Together, how to navigate and diminish implicit bias.
MN Association of Health Underwriters, Mpls, MN., Benefits Advisor to Talent Partner
Reversing the Ostrich Approach to Diversity: Pulling your head out of the sand:
"This is an invaluable resource. The book is based on an entertaining, easy to follow premise that too many people are burying their heads in the sand around dealing with our fast paced, increasingly diverse and evolving digitalized world. Reversing the Ostrich Approach to Diversity: Pulling your head out of the sand gives readers a fun, practical, easy to follow five-part model: The Ostrich Wheel."
Check it out and get a copy: OstrichWheel
Responses to TLNT Article
"Loved your message. One point that was especially interesting was If you didn't know you had it, it can't be missed by me as the exiting employee. Yes, I know I'm not giving it justice but it is certainly an important point. It also made me chuckle. Keep up the good work. You are always amazing. " -- HR Practitioner
"You had many great points in the piece - veery thought-provoking! The last point about a learning culture and sharing openly is one that I have thought about for many years as I have experienced cultures where this sharing was not common - quite the opposite." -- L & D practitioner
From classroom to the screen -- We deliver education and presentations across the country.
Increased accessibility is the upside of today's delivery of education and conference content. EmployeeEXP's DEI and Leadership content has been virtually integrated to address multiple situations:
Virtual Subjects and Audiences
- Leadership and manage
From classroom to the screen -- We deliver education and presentations across the country.
Increased accessibility is the upside of today's delivery of education and conference content. EmployeeEXP's DEI and Leadership content has been virtually integrated to address multiple situations:
Virtual Subjects and Audiences
- Leadership and management development
- Launching DEI Councils
- All-employee education
- Subject-matter organizations interested in exploring how DEI is important to their constituents e.g. Project Management Institute, Healthcare Action Council, MN Rural Electric Association (Safety), MN Dept. of Labor and Industry (Apprenticeships), HR Executive Forum (HR and Humans in the Workplace, Adjusting to a Plateful of New Normal)
Responses
Facilitators and team did a great job engaging in the conversation and providing relevant/new examples to approach and frame the discussions we are and will need to continue having! thank you
The topic was very relevant to today's work environment—the speaker did a great job of presenting the topic.
Great topic and excellent speaker! Nice to balance D&I topics with other leadership and technical topics.
It was great to hear from each of you, Patricia (Tricia) Jesperson, MBA, Pam Lampert& Carita Hibben. Voices of reason and enlightenment in the most disconcerting period we have lived through.
Books, Podcasts, Articles
Book: Reversing the Ostrich Approach to Diversity: Pulling your head out of the sand
Ostrich Wheel Definition
os·trich wheel (ôs“tr¹ch /(h)wēl/) n., 1. A moment of reflection that illustrates your progress in one of the five simple concepts. 2. When you recognize you are applying an action specific to one of the
Books, Podcasts, Articles
Book: Reversing the Ostrich Approach to Diversity: Pulling your head out of the sand
Ostrich Wheel Definition
os·trich wheel (ôs“tr¹ch /(h)wēl/) n., 1. A moment of reflection that illustrates your progress in one of the five simple concepts. 2. When you recognize you are applying an action specific to one of the five simple concepts.
How the OstrichWheel™ Works
Assess yourself on the five concepts. How effective would you say you are today in applying a given concept in your life? Then set your goals: how effective do you want to be? What impact would that have on your success? The Rudders of Change section is full of tips, techniques and action items to help your OstrichWheel™ roll.
What the experts have to say
"This is an invaluable resource. The book is based on an entertaining, easy to follow premise that too many people are burying their heads in the sand around dealing with our fast paced, increasingly diverse and evolving digitalized world."
Podcast: Master These Skills. Master Inclusive Leadership. (Podcast Episode #31)
In this episode of The Forum Podcast series, Patricia Jesperson, chief curiosity officer at EmployeeEXP, and Amy Tolbert, ECCO International principal, explore the five critical leadership skills they’ve identified to help leaders transform into naturally inclusive leaders.
While emotional intelligence is an important skill when working with anyone different from ourselves, it is only part of the inclusive leadership equation. Achieving an elevated state of self-awareness is key to developing leaders with capacity to embrace and effectively engage with the increasingly diverse workforce. The Inclusion Matrix™ is designed for leaders—not only in title, but also those who demonstrate organizational influence.
If silos are meant to hold things in--integrating the silos in Human Resources holds the potential to unleash the people power needed to fuel organizational growth and innovation in this time of ever-increasing workforce diversity.
-- Patricia Jesperson
EmployeeEXP presentations challenge organizational "culture keepers" to consider
If silos are meant to hold things in--integrating the silos in Human Resources holds the potential to unleash the people power needed to fuel organizational growth and innovation in this time of ever-increasing workforce diversity.
-- Patricia Jesperson
EmployeeEXP presentations challenge organizational "culture keepers" to consider such things as:
1) The impact of bias on health plan design and communication.
2) How unique employee populations may make Total Rewards decisions differently.
3) How a storytelling and a learner-centric approach can impact employee participation in all employee benefits.
4) The cost of healthcare outcome disparities and the organization's role in helping at risk employee populations navigate the healthcare system.
5) How applying a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion lens to all Human Resources practices can impact organizational culture.
6) What is gained when Human Resource functions cross-pollinate their knowledge to attract, retain and engage today's evermore diverse talent?