Being a Better Ally to All (virtual)

This month's lecture is Being a Better Ally to All with Jess Pettitt, author of Good Enough Now.

Being a Better Ally to All

Every organization has a group of stakeholders, staff, and volunteers who must foster effective communication through conflict, change, and crisis. With increased comfort and confidence, you can be prepared to hold and encourage others to have the challenging conversations that lead to better collaboration and teamwork. Developing a culture based on listening, speaking up, and taking responsibility builds teams of cooperation for the short- and long-term.

Learning Outcomes

• Improving Listening Skills during difficult conversations or conflict;
• Asking better questions through your conscious and unconscious bias; and
• Taking responsibility for who and how you show up in relationship with key stakeholders, leaders, colleagues, etc.

About the speaker

Jess Pettitt, M.Ed., CSP, has always had a foot in two different approaches to her life. Perhaps it is her Texas roots, but she believes to thrive in this world you have to ride two horses at once – one of humility and one of ego.

This is why, while hosting and performing stand-up in NYC, she also worked as a diversity and inclusion specialist as a day job. She quit her day job after a decade and almost 20 years later still uses humor to deliver actionable content related to everything you ever wanted to know about where leadership and diversity collide but are afraid to ask. Though often referred to as a thought leader, Jess responds that she just makes leaders think.

For Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work to stick, the first step is a conversation that matters about what you don’t know you don’t know then you can do the best you can with what you have some of the time without getting sued, losing talent, or failing customers. To learn about Jess: https://jesspettitt.com/

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