Seminars
Employee Resource Network Leadership Summit
Los Angeles
February 8-9, 2012
with faculty from the Center for Effective Organizations, partnering universities, and company guest presenters
You are invited to attend the upcoming ERN Leadership Summit!
The ERN Leadership Summit is designed to:
- Develop ERN leaders as business leaders.
- Expose participants to new ideas and processes used by successful ERNs, and promote shared learning.
- Support ERN members in better utilizing analytics for data-driven decision-making and leadership.
- Promote understanding about ways to reduce identity conflict in the workplace and use diversity & inclusion best practices as a means of encouraging employees to bring all of themselves to work.
- Share how organizations are globalizing their ERNs, including action steps, challenges, and strategies for overcoming barriers.
- Help ERN leaders work on their own ERN plans, and incorporate new ideas for improvement and implementation.
How the ERN Leadership Summit works:
- Participating companies will complete a survey of their ERN members.
- Data from the survey will be analyzed, shared, and used at the Leadership Summit to drive action taking.
- Companies will be able to compare their own data with benchmark results from all participating companies.
- Time will be spent discussing how to best share the survey fi ndings with others, and how to engage ERN members in data analysis and action planning to drive improved results.
- Participants will work in company-intact teams, as well as in peer teams representing multiple companies, to maximize peer coaching and learning.
- As a special feature, Center for Eff ective Organizations faculty will deliver insights and lessons on leadership that will maximize the eff ectiveness of ERN leaders.
- Ongoing networking will take place virtually post-summit.
Costs
- Sponsor companies: $6500 per organization plus $300 per participant
- Non-Sponsor companies: $7500 per organization plus $395 per participant
Fees include materials, surveys, reports for each ERN, conference costs, and all materials.
Please register in teams of 15 participants maximum. (To bring a larger team, please email Beth Harrington or call her at 1-213-740-9814.)
Sponsored By Corning, Mattel, and eePulse
"Corning's Affinity Groups (aka ERGs) have been an integral part of our diversity and inclusion initiatives for over 30 years. We are delighted to be partnering with CEO on a survey to look at current best practices and emerging needs for ERGs and their companies. The Learning Congress should be a great opportunity for learning and collaboration."
-- Debra Turner Bailey, Global Diversity Officer, Corning
"I am excited about CEO's ERN; the sharing and learnings that will come from this research will definitely help us ensure we are maximizing these incredible resources we have in house, our Employee Resource Groups."
-- Graciela Meibar, Vice President Global Sales Training and Global Diversity , Mattel, Inc.
Mattel's Graciela Meibar on How Diversity Can Impact Sales from Human Capital Media on Vimeo.
Read More
Read this recent article from Diversity Executive on the resurgence of employee affinity groups.
Download Mercer's report on Employee Resource Groups, "ERGs Come of Age: The Evolution of employee Resource Groups" here. It is cited in the Diversity Executive article.
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Center for Effective Organizations
- University of Southern California
- 3415 S. Figueroa Street
- Davidson Conference Center 200
- Los Angeles, CA 90089–0871
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- 213-740-9814
- 213-740-4354
- ceo@usc.edu
- usc marshall school of business