Week 1:
Strengthening the Diversity Talent Pipeline: How ERGs/BRGs and Campus Recruiting Teams Can Partner to Support the Next Generation of Diverse Talent
Sponsored by DePaul University | Career Center
Wednesday, April 5, 2023 | 12-1pm CDTWebinar Description:
Despite popular myth, there is no shortage of diverse talent. However, lack of representation, exclusionary job requirements and unconscious bias often undermine a company’s ability to attract, recruit and retain diverse employees. In this session, we’ll share practical ways ERGs/BRGs can partner with their Campus/Early Talent recruiting teams to support the next generation of diverse talent and positively impact their organization’s diversity recruiting efforts on college campuses. To ensure a balanced conversation, we’ll also discuss some of the challenges these collaborative teams might encounter.
Presenter: 
Donyiel Crocker
Associate Director, Employer Engagement | DePaul University, Career Center
Staff Co-Chair, DPUBLC (DePaul’s Black Leadership Coalition)
Week 2:
Organizational Career Builders and Makers – Standing Up and Standing Out
Sponsored by DePaul University | Driehaus College of Business, Hay Center for Leadership Development
Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 12-1pm CDTWebinar Description:
Despite the high rates of education and achievement, diverse leaders are still underrepresented at the top of organizations even as research shows that firms with ethnically diverse management teams outperform those with less diverse teams. While the reasons for this phenomenon are numerous, this session will focus on the role of organizational practices that enhance leader sponsorship and create networks that provide visibility and pathways for the rise of diverse talent. Special consideration will be given to the role of employee resource groups in this process.
Presenter: 
Stephanie Smith, DBA
Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer | DePaul University
Week 3:
Empowering Retention & Talent Development through Mentorship
Sponsored by DePaul University | Corporate and Employer Outreach
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 | 12-1pm CDTWebinar Description:
Advocacy. Championship. Support. Allyship. These four words come to mind when developing, creating, and sustaining mentorship programs in the workplace. In this interactive seminar, participants will be inspired to deliver authentic capabilities related to mentorship and talent development – particularly in support of advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within your organization. Participants will leave with best practices in how to facilitate mentor-mentee relationships, the power of communication in forging workplace retention, and strategies to create mentorship programs that provide people with growth and development.
Presenter: 
Veronica Appleton, PhD
Adjunct Faculty | DePaul University, College of Communication
Week 4:
DEI Strategies for Recruiting, Developing and Retaining Talent
Sponsored by DePaul University | Corporate and Employer Outreach
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 | 12-1:30pm CDTWebinar Description:
In the race for top talent, corporations are developing innovative strategies for talent acquisition, professional development and employee retention using a DEI lens. In this panel discussion, we’re thrilled to showcase best-practices from some of DePaul’s corporate partners as they share examples and insights on how they are leading the way in corporate social responsibility practices within their organizations.
The first hour of the session will feature the moderated panel, followed by an opportunity for open dialogue and networking with the panelists and other attendees for the last half hour.
Desiray Glass
Supplier Diversity Lead | JLL
Efry Ayala-Johnson
Sr. Manager, Global Learning Strategy | United Airlines
Mona Asra
Associate Managing Director, Inclusion & Diversity | CIBC
Eric Opalinski
Panel Moderator, Corporate and Employer Outreach | DePaul University
