Programs & Events

 

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Diversity & Talent Leader Innovation Circle: Revisiting Hybrid Work Policies – April 25, 2025

Diversity & Talent Leader Innovation Circle:

Revisiting Hybrid Work Policies

April 25, 2025 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET

This Innovation Circle will focus specifically on Revisiting Hybrid Work Policies. Please come ready to share and participate in the facilitated conversation.

We invite individuals at member organizations who hold the following roles (or the equivalent thereof in your organization) to register:

  • Chief Diversity Officer or Director
  • Chief Talent Officer or Director
  • Chief HR Officer or Director
MEMBERS: REGISTER HERE

Not a member? Contact Angela Whitehead Quigley to learn more.

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Defining Culture in a Shifting Landscape – April 3, 2025

2025 Signature Seminar

Defining Culture in a Shifting Landscape

April 3 2025 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET

Featuring Manar Morales, Founder & CEO, the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance

In times of uncertainty, leaders often find themselves reacting rather than leading with intention. The way you navigate challenges leaves a lasting impression, shaping how people perceive your leadership and your organization’s identity. It takes shape through values, behaviors, and daily experiences that influence how people connect, contribute, and grow. Whether it’s managing return to office mandates or challenges to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, this program will provide you with a framework to define culture and engage in purpose driven conversations.

This event is open to all individuals at member organizations. Members: Can’t join us on April 3rd? Register to receive a copy of the recording in your inbox the day after the program.

MEMBERS: REGISTER HERE

Not a member? Contact Angela Whitehead Quigley for more information. 

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2025 Boot Camp: Driving Change – A Deep Dive Into Change Management

Driving Change: A Bootcamp for Forward-Thinking Leaders

May 8, 2025 | Washington, DC

Change is inevitable, but how leaders approach it makes all the difference. When change aligns with culture, it fosters trust, engagement, and long-term success. When it doesn’t, resistance builds, and momentum stalls.

At the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance Driving Change Boot Camp, we help leaders shape change in a way that strengthens workplace culture, builds trust, and drives engagement. 

Whether you’re implementing new policies, launching a key initiative, bringing a team together, or seeking buy-in for a strategic shift, this hands-on session will equip you with the tools to ensure your team moves forward with clarity, collaboration, and a shared sense of purpose.

Who Should Attend?

This Boot Camp is designed for:

  • Leaders responsible for workplace culture, talent strategy, or DEIB initiatives
  • Teams rolling out new policies or launching key organizational shifts
  • Professionals seeking effective ways to gain buy-in and create lasting change
  • Anyone leading in a rapidly evolving work environment

Don’t wait—secure your spot today and transform the way you lead change!

LEARN MORE & REGISTER
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Building Self-Reliance: Lessons from 7 Rules of Self-Reliance – February 18, 2025

2025 Signature Seminar

Building Self-Reliance: Lessons from 7 Rules of Self-Reliance

February 18, 2025 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET

Featuring Maha Abouelenein, founder of Digital & Savvy, best-selling author of 7 Rules of Self-Reliance, and host of the Savvy Talk podcast

As the CEO of Digital & Savvy, a global communications consulting firm with offices in the United States and United Arab Emirates, Maha has been instrumental in orchestrating transformations in communication strategies for clients that include global corporate giants, high-growth startups, sports organizations, top governments, CEOs, and high-net-worth individuals. Raised and educated in the United States to Egyptian parents, Maha is at home in both Western and Arab worlds, offering a global perspective that translates into her work.

Maha’s 2/18 webinar will be based on her book, 7 Rules of Self-Reliance: How to Stay Low, Keep Moving, Invest in Yourself and Own Your Future, a USA TODAY bestseller that provides a transformative guide on mastering self-reliance. In this fascinating presentation, Maha will share her top strategies that fuel resilience, empower leaders, and inspire people to create their own opportunities.

This event is open to all individuals at member organizations. Not a member? Contact Angela Whitehead Quigley for more information. 

MEMBERS: REGISTER HERE
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Personal Branding for Professional Success – January 22, 2025

2025 Signature Seminar

Personal Branding for Professional Success

January 22, 2025 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST

Featuring Mary Abbajay, author of the best-selling, award winning Managing Up: How to Move Up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss

Did you know everyone has a personal brand—even if they don’t realize it? Your brand is what sets you apart. It’s the unique blend of your skills, experience, and personality that shapes how others see you.

Don’t miss this interactive, high energy virtual session that will help you:

  • Cultivate a positive professional image, brand and reputation;
  • Identify key components of your brand;
  • Identify key strategies to reinforce and magnify your brand while engaging with others;
  • Explore best practices for brand (and self) promotion.

Remember, your personal brand is the impression you both want to make and do make on others. Done well, and your personal brand can help you succeed professionally. You can either ignore your personal brand, and let it develop organically, possibly chaotically, beyond your control, or you can take active steps to create a personal brand that accurately depicts you as the person you want to be.

This event is open to all individuals at member organizations. Not a member? Contact Angela Whitehead Quigley for more information. 

MEMBERS: REGISTER HERE
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LinkedIn Live Fireside Chat: The Flexibility Paradigm – January 16, 2025

Join the Alliance for a LinkedIn Live to hear about Manar Morales’s new book:

The Flexibility Paradigm: Humanizing the Workplace for Productivity, Profitability, and Possibility

January 16, 2025 | 2:00 – 2:45 pm ET

Join us at 2:00 pm ET on Thursday, January 16, 2025 for a LinkedIn Live fireside chat with Alliance CEO Manar Morales, author of The Flexibility Paradigm: Humanizing the Workplace for Productivity, Profitability and Possibility (Georgetown University Press). Ellen McGirt, Editor-in-Chief of the Design Observer, will facilitate this in-depth conversation designed to introduce the most fascinating aspects of this new book.

We’re at a defining moment in workplace history. We’re experiencing a Flexibility Revolution that’s reshaping how work gets done. Don’t miss this opportunity to understand why “policies won’t bring people back; experiences will” and how your organization can thrive in the new world of work.

Register now to join this timely conversation about creating workplaces where both people and businesses flourish.

REGISTER HERE
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2024 Annual Conference Speaker Lineup

Don’t miss this year’s Annual Conference, Harnessing the Power of Your Organizational Culture, on October 24 at the Washington, DC offices of Akin.

Our Annual Conference provides a unique opportunity to gather with prominent leaders committed to strategically addressing the critical issues around diversity, flexibility, and wellbeing. Held in Washington, DC, our speakers and attendees come together to explore success strategies for humanizing the workplace.

Each year, our conference brings together corporate leaders, partners at professional services and law firms, general counsel, and DEIB and talent management professionals who share how they’ve implemented successful strategies in their organizations for attracting and retaining top talent in ways that empower their people, foster innovation, and humanize their workplaces.

Highlights from this year’s speaker lineup include:

2024 Midday Keynote & Luminary Award Honoree

Barri Rafferty, CEO – Americas, Sodali & Co

Learn more about Barri and the 2024 Luminary Award HERE.

2024 Closing Keynote

Vernā Myers, Founder & CEO, DEI Pioneer, The Vernā Myers Company

Special Guest Speaker & Flex Leader Award Honoree

Wendy P. Davidson, President & CEO, Hain Celestial Group

Learn more about Wendy and the 2024 Flex Leader Award HERE.

See the full lineup of speakers HERE.

 

Registration is now open through October 4. More information about the conference and ticket pricing can be found HERE.

REGISTER FOR THE 2024 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Please contact Angela Whitehead Quigley with any questions.

 

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Invitation-Only Event: New Partner Report Summit

November 18, 2024 | 1:00 – 2:30 pm ET

The New Partner Report Summit – an invitation-only event that will share insights and trends from our forthcoming 2024 New Partner Report – will take place on November 18, 2024. The Summit will include in-depth discussions with leaders from firms that have achieved gender parity in their new partner classes for multiple years.

Featuring:

MEMBERS - REGISTER HERE

Not an Alliance member? Contact Mira Harris to inquire about receiving an invitation to this event.

Members: Please contact Angela Whitehead Quigley with any questions about the Summit or if you need help registering.

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Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better – December 4, 2024

2024 Signature Seminar

Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better

December 4, 2024 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST

Featuring: Kim Scott, Author & Co-founder of Radical Candor

During this Signature Seminar, Kim will describe what a Radically Respectful workplace is: one that optimizes for collaboration and honors each employee’s individuality. What gets in the way of Radical Respect? Bias, prejudice and bullying. Too often we conflate these three, which can make the problems they create feel monolithic and insoluble.

But it doesn’t have to be so bad! When faced with a difficult problem, it’s useful to break it down into its component parts. Kim will offer some simple definitions, and some effective responses to each. She will identify the things that upstanders and leaders can do to ensure that we build a culture where everyone does the best work of their lives and enjoys working together.

In this talk you will learn:

  • The difference between bias, prejudice and bullying
  • Some suggested responses to bias, prejudice and bullying
  • Some additional ways that upstanders can intervene
  • Some practical, tactical ways that leaders can prevent bias, prejudice and bullying on their teams.

This event is open to all individuals at member organizations. Not a member? Contact Angela Whitehead Quigley for more information. 

MEMBERS - REGISTER HERE
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Diversity & Talent Leader Innovation Circle – September 27, 2024

Members – please join us an upcoming Innovation Circle for Diversity & Talent Leaders that focuses specifically on DEI organizational structure, including discussion about the role of DEI Committees, DEI professionals, and Affinity Groups (Employee Resource Groups).

September 27, 2024 | 1:00pm – 2:30pm EST

We invite individuals at member organizations who hold the following roles (or the equivalent thereof in your organization) to register:

  • Chief Diversity Officer or DE&I Director
  • Chief People Officer or Director
  • Chief Talent Officer or Talent Director
  • Chief HR Officer or HR Director
MEMBERS - REGISTER HERE