Join us…
…for inspirational presentations & dynamic discussions exploring the latest in diversity, flexibility, talent retention and the future of work.
Virtual Annual Conference 2021
Wednesday, November 3
12:00 Noon – 4:45 pm ET
About The Conference
This ground-breaking event offers an experience like no other! You’ll immerse yourself in an afternoon of inspirational content, connection and collaboration. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to interact with other attendees and presenters in real-time!
CONTENT
We’ll walk you through key steps for REFLECTING on past experiences, REIMAGINING where you want your organization to go and RECALIBRATING to ensure success in the years ahead. You’ll walk away with concrete and actionable strategies to take your organization to the next level.
CONNECTION
From our panel discussions to research presentations and inspirational keynotes, you’ll connect with dynamic influencers and visionaries blazing the trail with innovative initiatives that are truly changing the way we work.
COLLABORATION
You’ll collaborate with your peers within your industry and learn from those in other fields. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to leverage the wisdom in our Alliance Community as we share diversity and flexibility best practices across the board.
Are you ready to be part of the future of work?
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to be a part of Paving the Way to Inclusive Flexibility. Come prepared to participate and fully experience the power of community connection and collaboration.
Our Annual Conference provides a unique opportunity to gather with prominent leaders committed to strategically addressing the critical issues around diversity and flexibility. While usually held in Washington, DC, due to the pandemic the conference will be virtual again in 2021. Regardless of location and format, our speakers and attendees come together to explore success strategies for improving retention of top talent and the most up-to-date action steps to create a truly inclusive work environment.
Each year, our conference brings together corporate leaders, partners at professional services and law firms, general counsel, and diversity and inclusion and talent management professionals who share how they’ve implemented successful strategies in their organizations for retaining and promoting women and supporting work-life control for everyone.
Photo Credit: Birch Thomas, photosbybirch.com
Our attendees gain valuable insights into the most effective strategies for results when time and resources are limited. They hear cross industry best practices from leading law and consulting firms and Fortune 500 corporations and build networks of senior level peers. Attendees also learn about cutting-edge data and case studies that help build powerful business cases internally to advance diversity and flexibility within organizations.
Each year during our Annual Conference, we present our Luminary Award to an outstanding global visionary, as well as our Flex Leader, Flex Impact and Flex Success Awards to individuals and organizations leading the way in flexible working. Our award honorees share their secrets for success and outline their strategies that have helped them make positive changes in workplace culture.
2021 Keynote
Lara Abrash, Chair & CEO
Deloitte & Touche LLP
2021 Confirmed Speakers
& D&I Lead – Corporate External Legal Affairs (CELA)
Visual Strategist
2021 Conference Agenda
Diversity & Flexibility Alliance Annual Conference
Reflect. Reimagine. Recalibrate: Paving the Way to Inclusive Flexibility
November 3, 2021 – Virtual Conference
Noon – 4:45pm ET
12:00 Noon ET
Opening Keynote: Where are We with the Future of Work?
Manar Morales, President & CEO, The Diversity & Flexibility Alliance
Across the nation, we are returning to the office, and this undoubtedly brings new challenges and opportunities in creating a flexible work environment. Now is the time to spearhead discussions about what worked and didn’t work during this unprecedented time, how the pandemic has impacted your teams – particularly women and diverse employees – and how flexible work arrangements can lead to an even more successful and collaborative culture.
12:20
Presentation of the 2021 Flex Impact Awards
Panel 1: It’s Time to REIMAGINE the Workplace: Companies and Firms Blazing the Trail – Flex Impact Awards
In a year when everything changed, some companies and firms sat back to “wait and see” what would happen, while others seized the opportunity to blaze a new trail and create powerful change within their organizations. This year’s Flex Impact Award Honorees will share how they reimagined flexibility to create industry-leading initiatives and position themselves at the forefront of the evolution of the future of the workplace.
12:50
Meet the Influencers: The Future of Talent
Featuring Sang Lee, Co-Founder & CEO, Thine
1:10
Reflect & Connect Breakout Session
1:20
BREAK
1:30
Keynote Speaker: Lara Abrash, Chair & CEO of Deloitte & Touche LLP
An inspirational keynote presentation from one of the world’s most effective corporate leaders – Deloitte & Touche Chair and CEO, Lara Abrash – who is paving the way for the financial services industry in its evolution towards the future of work. She’ll share how she fostered a true culture of inclusivity and empathy at Deloitte while creatively planning for remote and hybrid work models.
2:00
Presentation of the 2021 Flex Success Awards
Hear from extraordinary Partners at major law firms, along with their supportive clients, as they share how flexibility has enabled them to advance in their careers, make time for volunteering and mentoring while managing their personal commitments.
2:20
Reflect & Connect Breakout Session
2:30
Fireside Chat with the Honorable Tonya Parker
Identity Crisis: What We Misunderstand About Oppression and Privilege
Alliance President & CEO Manar Morales joins Texas Judge and recognized diversity trailblazer, the Honorable Tonya Parker, in an in-depth discussion of diversity, inclusion and identity in our culture.
2:50
BREAK
3:00
DFA’s 2021 New Partner Report Findings & Trends and Recognition of Tipping the Scales Firms
Gender equity, especially at the partner level in law firms, is a testament of an organization’s dedication to diversity, inclusion, and equity. We believe in sharing successes to start a ripple effect of positive, lasting effects and proudly recognize this year’s Tipping the Scales firms. Manar Morales will also highlight the results from our 2021 New Partner Report, which examines data from over 200 of the nation’s largest and top-grossing law firms about attorneys promoted to partnership in U.S. offices. More importantly, she will discuss how to utilize these findings to help transform your organization from a sideline watcher to a game time change maker.
3:10
Panel 2: Secrets to Success: REFLECTING on Strategies for Advancing More Women to Leadership
Individuals from law firms with a proven track record of recruiting, retaining and advancing women to leadership will reflect on the systematic strategies that have been instrumental to their success. Join leaders from law firms that have received multiple-year “Tipping the Scales” recognition as they share their proven best practices and the powerful role gender diversity has played in their overall success.
3:40
Reflect & Connect Breakout Session
3:50
Panel 3: RECALIBRATING Your Inclusive Flexible Working Initiative To Strengthen Diversity
Is your flexible working initiative a driver of or a detriment to your organization’s diversity efforts? This panel of leaders will lead a discussion investigating the intersection between inclusive flexibility and diversity. They’ll share their expert insights into the strategies for implementing an inclusive flexible working initiative and its positive impact on diversity.
4:20
BREAK
4:25
Closing Keynote Concert with Juno-Award Nominee Peter Katz
“Showing Up Wholeheartedly in Our Lives”
How do you find the strength and courage to “stay in it wholeheartedly” when life is constantly presenting you with new challenges? How do you stay connected to the bigger picture so you can create the positive impacts you wish to make?
Part concert, part keynote — Juno-nominated singer-songwriter Peter Katz draws on his experience of surviving and thriving in the music industry to motivate attendees to stay on their path wholeheartedly, while also being open to change and embracing the unexpected along the way.
Through his powerful songs and stories, Peter pulls attendees in and leaves them inspired to show up with purpose every day.
4:45
Wrap Up & Guided Reflection
CLE Credit
We have been approved for 3.5 CLE hours in Arkansas and Illinois.
Please contact Angela Whitehead Quigley if you have questions about CLE credit.
Members Receive Complimentary Tickets!
Alliance members receive two (2) complimentary tickets as a member benefit AND may register a client for free – that’s three (3) complimentary tickets to use all together!
- We also welcome Non-members – please see rates below.
- Additional member tickets can be purchased at the rates listed below.
- Please share this invitation with others who are interested in paving the way to inclusive flexibility.
- Early Bird Registration (7/25-9/27)
- DFA Member Extra Tickets
- Non-Member Tickets
- University, Law School, Government & Non- Profit Tickets
- Early Bird Registration (7/25-9/27)
- $345
- $445
- $199
- Regular Registration
(9/28-10/20) - $399
- $499
- $249
- Late Registration
(10/21 – 11/3) - $445
- $545
- $299
2021 Sponsors
Interested in sponsoring this year’s event and showcasing your commitment to transforming organizational cultures? Contact Manar Morales, the Alliance’s President & CEO, to make your pledge today. We have three levels of sponsorship: Platinum, Gold and Silver. Sponsors receive complimentary tickets based upon their level of support as well as recognition in conference materials, on the Alliance website and in social media.
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
2021 Community Sponsors
Community sponsors are organizations with similar missions to us who agree to help us spread the word about our Annual Conference. Community sponsors share information with their members through social media, newsletters and emails. Please contact Jane Caldeira at jane@dfalliance.com if you’d like to be a Community Sponsor.
Hear why this may be one day you can’t afford to miss.
Conference Archive
A Look Back at 2020
Our 2020 Annual Conference, Moments of Impact: Transforming Organizational Culture was held virtually on Thursday, November 5, 2020. Thank you to all who were able to join us. We are so grateful to our Sponsors and Community Sponsors for helping to make the afternoon so successful. We were honored to have such dynamic and inspirational speakers and we hope everyone found the afternoon to be exhilarating!
If you were unable to join us, please watch our short
HIGHLIGHT VIDEO.
2020 Annual Conference - Moments of Impact. Transforming Organizational Culture
2020 Annual Conference
Our 2020 Annual Conference Diversity + Flexibility = Talent Success was held virtually on November 5, 2020.
2019 Annual Conference - Inspire. Innovate. Ignite!
2019 Annual Conference
Our 2019 Annual Conference, Inspire. Innovate. Ignite! was held on Thursday, November 7, 2019 at the Washington DC offices of Jones Day.
2018 A2018 Annual Conference - Diversity + Flexibility = Embracing Change
2018 Annual Conference
Our 2018 Annual Conference, Diversity + Flexibility = Embracing Change was held on Thursday, September 29, 2018 at the Washington DC offices of Jones Day.
2017 Annual Conference - Diversity + Flexibility = An Evolving Culture
2017 Annual Conference
Our 2017 Annual Conference Diversity + Flexibility = An Evolving Culture was held on March 16, 2017 at the Washington, DC offices of Jones Day.
2016 Annual Conference - Diversity + Flexibility = Talent Success
2016 Annual Conference
Our 2016 Annual Conference Diversity + Flexibility = Talent Success was held on March 16, 2016 at the Washington, DC offices of Jones Day.
