To achieve significant and sustained results, the senior executive team must author and actively lead the diversity and inclusion strategy. Simmons' Executive Education and Strategic Planning enables the leadership team to fulfill these roles with confidence. The session results in strong buy-in and a strategic diversity and inclusion plan authored and led by the executive team. The session is customized to the group's culture and organizational history.

Key Objectives - Participants will:

• Review the concept of diversity and inclusion management beyond gender and race, including changing workforce and marketplace demographics, the elements of diversity, and diversity's impact on the bottom line, including global implications, similarities and differences with EEO/AA
• Assess and evaluate past and current executive behavior regarding diversity issues
• Develop a Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, including Vision, Business Case and Long-Term Objectives and Metrics and identify the executive behaviors that will support them
• Engage in Action Planning as the initial step in the implementation of the diversity process, with designated roles and accountability
• Develop leadership skills necessary to enhance inclusion, productivity and development of all employ