Most recent Diversity Presentations with Simmons Associates

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The Conference Board
March 29-30, 2007 - San Diego, CA
April 25-26, 2007 - New York, NY
May 23-24, 2007 - Chicago, IL

Rhythms of our World: Examining and Honoring our Uniqueness & Multiplicities
Annual Diversity Conferences
 
Peggy Hazard, Managing Director and Head of Global Services for Simmons Associates and Amy George, Vice President of Global Diversity and Inclusion for PepsiCo will present: Moving Managers from Neutral to Proactive in Managing Diversity: The PepsiCo Approach.

A recognized leader in diversity and inclusion, PepsiCo is implementing an exciting program designed to advance their progress to even higher levels. This presentation highlights insights, tools and techniques that captivate, motivate and provide skills to leaders in groups of 100+ to help them proactively manage diversity. Participants will learn how PepsiCo combines live drama with a concept that identifies invisible but powerful diversity-related forces that help or hinder employees' engagement, productivity and success and teaches strategies to remove barriers.

Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR)
November 1-4, 2006
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Peggy Hazard, Managing Director and Head of Global Services for Simmons Associates will present Taking Leadership Competencies Global: How Local Do We Act? Back by popular request, this workshop reveals how the vast majority of leadership competency models are ethno-centric and explores how to (re)create a model and implementation process that can be effective globally. Participants explore how cultural values influence leadership styles, expectations and preferences and how models may be adjusted to provide adequate consistency worldwide while offering necessary flexibility by location.

Executive Leadership Council CEO Diversity Summit
October 26, 2006
Washington, DC

Peggy Hazard, Managing Director and Head of Global Services for Simmons Associates will present "Building the Pipeline", "Integrating the Culture" and "Influencing Diversity". These 3 dramas, produced and written by Ms. Hazard, depict cases outlined by Dr. David Thomas of Harvard Business School. The participating CEOs and ELC members will "solve" the challenges presented in the dramas.
The Executive Leadership Council is a private member organization that provides the most senior African-American executives of Fortune 500 companies with a network and leadership forum that adds perspective and direction to the achievement of excellence in business, economics and public policies for the African-American community, their corporations and the community at large.

MultiCultural Development Center (MCDC)
May 10, 2006
Bloomington, Minnesota

In this workshop entitled Leveraging Diversity for Enhanced Team Performance, Barry Callender and Peggy Hazard, Managing Directors at Simmons Associates will examine the role of Diversity on Team Performance. The workshop will discuss different types of teams we manage (virtual, cross-functional, cross-cultural, etc.), how to leverage the diversity and uniqueness of each team member and how different styles of thinking, communicating and solving conflict can impact a team's ability to deliver. Best practices in the area of Diversity and Teams will be shared.

Linkage:  Women in Leadership Summit
May 16 – 17, 2005
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Even high potential women need more than intelligence and expertise to succeed at the upper levels. Through years of experience helping women break through the glass ceiling, Simmons identified powerful but invisible forces that hinder their career progress. In 1988, Simmons developed Vectors™, a problem solving tool that illuminates these invisible forces, and provides methods for removing or reducing them. In this highly interactive workshop, Peggy Hazard, Managing Director with Simmons Associates, Inc. revealed these forces and provided participants with insights and tools to enable them to overcome the challenges that are preventing them from achieving their full potential.

Linkage:  The Summit on Leading Diversity
April 25 – 28, 2004
Atlanta, Georgia

In this session titled: The Story Of Leveraging Change And Diversity at Edward Jones: Building Bonds, Not Just Selling Them, Michele Holton, Manager of Inclusion at Edward Jones, and Terry Simmons, CEO of Simmons Associates, Inc. revealed the change management process used at Edward Jones and the challenges and solutions of their inclusion initiative strategy. The discussion centered on the framework of the successful diversity strategy and its ten essential elements, how the initiative got off the ground, and resulting progress to date.

HRPS
April 25 – 28, 2004
Phoenix, Arizona

Peggy Hazard, Managing Director at Simmons Associates, Inc., opened the panel discussion and introduced the Keys to a Successful Global Diversity Strategy, The Ten Essential Components™ and the necessary sequence of events. She provided examples of which issues can be shared (think globally) and which need to be customized by country (act locally) to be effective. Top Diversity Executives from PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Starbucks Coffee Company and American Express then followed with examples of their successful global diversity efforts.

The Conference Board
April 26-28, 2004
New York, New York
 
Building Organizational Capability Through Diversity
Annual Diversity Conference
 
Anthony Simmons, President and COO of Simmons Associates, Inc. shared best practices and learnings from 25 years of working in the diversity field with Fortune 500 organizations.  In his session, Integrating Diversity into the Business, he explored why successful initiatives require unique efforts as well as full integration into organizational processes, practices, policies, etc.

GRDC Diversity 2004 Conference
September 14, 2004
Rochester, New York
 
The GRDC and Simmons Associates Inc. completed a comprehensive survey examining the effect of specific executive behaviors on the success of strategic organizational diversity and inclusion initiatives. In this session Liz Hobba of the GRDC and Senior Consultant with Simmons Associates reviewed the study parameters, behaviors identified and shared the resulting data including strategic executive behaviors that can help, hinder or drive an effective strategic diversity and inclusion initiative. The data was presented within the context of a strategic diversity initiative.