One Goffstown - How to be an Ally
2023-07-20 18:30 - 20:00 UTC
Want to be an ally to those who are being bullied because of race, sex, age, etc.? Come to the Goffstown Library’s session How to Be An Ally.
Registration required, no library card necessary. This event will be virtual and all registrants will receive a link to the event.
This event is part of our #OneGoffstown series.

DEI 102: 3 Levels of Bias, Microaggressions, & Belonging
2023-09-21 09:00 - 10:30 UTC
Are you aware that 100% of people are biased but most do not know it? Do you feel you can interact with diverse people without offending them? Would you recognize a microaggression when you see it? Do you understand the true impact of discrimination on your organization? Do you know for certain whether your workspace environment is welcoming to diverse people?
If you answered NO to any of these questions or just want to brush up on the topics, this session is for you? Come participate in an interactive session led by bestselling author and DEI expert James McKim that takes you through how do our preconceived ideas influence how we view and react to people and situations and how our biases lead to microaggressions, organizational policies, and culture that is, at best, unwelcoming and at worse, illegal.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this session participants will be able to:

understand the 6 key fundamental concepts in a welcoming workspace
understand what preconceived notions (unconscious implicit biases) are and how they influence our behavior
interpret types of microaggressions and their impact to your organization
begin to analyze the “welcomness” of your workplace for diverse employees and clients/customers

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DEI 301 - DEI for Managers: Managing the Talent Lifecycle
2023-10-17 09:00 - 10:30 UTC
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) is a proven way to elicit superior performance from teams and individuals. But that performance does not just happen by itself. Even if there is a DEI Plan, that plan needs to be carried out day-to-day. So, how do you bring diversity into your group? This workshop explores how to embed DEI into your daily work as a manager.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
• create a culture for your group to live into DEI
• include DEI in the recruitment, hiring, and retention of team members
• encourage DEI in your team’s communication, decision-making, and general project management.

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NHTA Innovation Summit Panel on AI in Employment
2023-10-17 11:00 - 18:00 UTC
When: October 17
Where: Grappone Conference Center, Concord, NH

Taming Unconscious & Other Types of Bias in Engineering
2023-10-18 08:00 - 10:00 UTC
17th NHJES Annual Conference

Come hear author and internationally known DEI expert James McKim speak on Taming Unconscious & Other Types of Bias in Engineering at the 2023 NH Joint Engineering Societies Annual Conference.
Date: Wednesday October 18th
Location: Bedford Event Center, 379 South River Road, Bedford, NH 03110

Race, Ethics, & the Arts
2023-10-20 08:30 - 10:30 UTC
Friday, October 20 | 8:30 – 10:30am | Saint Anselm College
James McKim will participate in a panel discussion about “Race, Ethics, and the Arts,” hosted by the Richard L. Bready Chair in Ethics, Economics, and the Common Good and the Center for Ethics in Society. A broad spectrum of scholars, practitioners, and theorists will explore ethical questions related to the intersection of race and art.
For those attending in person, please join us in the Roger and Francine Jean Student Center at 8:30am for breakfast. For those joining virtually, the Zoom Webinar will begin at 9am. For more information please visit our website.

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DEI 201 Workshop: How to Have Difficult Conversations
2023-11-06 09:00 - 10:30 UTC
Someone says something to you that is disrespectful of your heritage. You witness behavior that has sexist overtones. You observe a conversation where someone demeans a person because of their racial identity. Besides your legal and organizational policy obligations, you need to have a difficult conversation with the person who caused the affront. But how do you have that conversation in a kind and effective way that has a positive outcome?
Combining recent research by cognitive neuroscientists such as Dr. Lara Boyd and Dr. Michael Gazzaniga; conversation experts such as Douglas Stone and Bruce Patton; and discriminatory behavior experts such as Resmaa Menachem, and Iris Bohnet, author and DEI expert James McKim will will use videos and activities to give you insights into when and how to have these difficult conversations as well as tips on what to do when you see a discriminatory situation occurring.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:

recognize when offensive situations arise
feel the role trauma plays in contentious situations
determine when to have difficult conversations
identify the three (3) conversations in every difficult conversation leverage the steps for having a difficult conversation

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DEI Office Hours - February
2023-11-07 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
Have questions about your DEI initiative?
Join your peers and our experts every 3rd Thursday to learn

what works
what doesn’t work
how to overcome your challenges in implementing DEI so that it actually improves your organization

Register now to reserve your seat.

DEI Metrics: Gateway to a Successful DEI Initiative
2023-11-16 08:00 - 22:00 UTC | NEEBCO, 19 Chenell Drive, Concord, NH, 3, United States
This program will provide HR professionals and others with a better understanding regarding:

establishing impactful DEI goals and metrics
utilizing tools to help manage/assess your organization’s DEI initiatives (ex: via “Heat Map, Traffic Light Model, etc.”)
modifying KPI’s to align with employers’ needs
incorporating agility/preparing for DEI’s future (a la the Supreme Court’s Recent decision re: Afirmative Action)

CREDITS
This webinar is pending approval for 2 SHRM PDCs and 2 HRCI credits.
PRESENTERS:
Armando Llorente, SHRM-SCP – Manager, Llorente HR Consulting LLC
James McKim, Jr., PMP – Managing Partner, Organizational Ignition

DEI Office Hours - November
2023-11-21 12:00 - 13:00 UTC

DEI 102: 3 Levels of Bias, Microagressions
2023-11-21 12:00 - 13:30 UTC
Are you aware that 100% of people are biased but most do not know it? Do you feel you can interact with diverse people without offending them? Would you recognize a microaggression when you see it? Do you understand the true impact of discrimination on your organization? Do you know for certain whether your workspace environment is welcoming to diverse people?
If you answered NO to any of these questions or just want to brush up on the topics, this session is for you? Come participate in an interactive session led by bestselling author and DEI expert James McKim that takes you through how do our preconceived ideas influence how we view and react to people and situations and how our biases lead to microaggressions, organizational policies, and culture that is, at best, unwelcoming and at worse, illegal.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this session participants will be able to:

understand the 6 key fundamental concepts in a welcoming workspace
understand what preconceived notions (unconscious implicit biases) are and how they influence our behavior
interpret types of microaggressions and their impact to your organization
begin to analyze the “welcomness” of your workplace for diverse employees and clients/customers

SCOTUS Prohibits Affirmative Action But Validates DEI
2023-11-30 08:30 - 10:30 UTC | Saint Anselm College Institute of Politics, 100 St Anselm Dr., Manchester, NH, 03102, United States
The recent 6-3 Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruling that race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina are unlawful will undoubtedly shape the future of affirmative action policies and have significant implications for society as a whole. Are Organizational Diversity Efforts Now Illegal? Does this mean organizations have to scrap their diversity efforts and lose the benefits of diverse perspectives that experts say can lead to improved organizational performance?
Join us for a continental breakfast or virtually for what promises to be a dynamic panel discussion with prominent legal experts and company leaders as they dissect the implications of the SCOTUS SFFA (Students for Fair Admissions) decision and share their insights on DEI in organizations -law firms included. Introductory remarks will explain the decision and explore various types of DEI goals. The panel will be facilitated by internationally known DEI expert and author of The Diversity Factor: Igniting Superior Organizational Performance, Mr. James McKim who will lead the discussion about the decision and the steps that can be taken to ensure diversity efforts remain legal as well as focused on improving organizational outcomes.

Who Should Attend?

For profit and nonprofit leaders looking to ensure their DEI efforts are legal and helping improve performance
Legal professionals who want to understand how to help your clients (you are encouraged to bring your clients)
Lovers of social justice who want to be versed in the facts about the decision

Why Attend?
This event is a must-attend for employment lawyers, company executives, and anyone interested in understanding the evolving landscape of DEI in the workplace. By participating, you will:

Gain a thorough understanding of the recent SCOTUS ruling against Affirmative Action.
Discover effective strategies and best practices for identifying 3 types of DEI Goals that drive organizational performance.
Learn how to make DEI efforts legal and effective navigating the post-SCOTUS corporate landscape.
Network with peers, legal professionals, and CEOs to foster valuable connections.
Qualify for CLE Credits

Ernesto Burden (Emcee)
Publisher
New Hampshire Magazine

James McKim, PMP (Moderator)
Managing Partner
Organizational Ignition

Panelist

Amy Spencer, Esq. Govt. Investigations & White Collar Defense, Higher Education TeamNixon Peabody
Gilles Bissonette, Esq. Legal Director ACLU NH
Michael Atkins, Esq. Shaheen Gordon/ Greater Nashua NAACP Legal Redress Coordinator
David Pease Senior Vice-President/Director Talent, Diversity & InclusionBangor Savings

Ryan King Vice-President Human Resources Northeast Delta Dental

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DEI 202: From De-Biasing to Allyship
2023-12-05 09:00 - 10:30 UTC
60% of women ages 18 to 29 report that they or a female family member have been sexually harassed. 51% of black Americans say they have personally experienced people using racial slurs against them. 35% of Asian Americans report personally experiencing people making insensitive or offensive comments or negative assumptions about their race or ethnicity.
Why is this happening? 100% of people are biased but most do not know it? Research has shown that it is this unconscious implicit bias that causes discrimination and the “isms” that exist in society. This highly interactive workshop will help you understand how to at minimum de-bias yourself so you have better interactions creating a more welcoming environment and even better become an ally so you can spark innovation leveraging beneficial perspectives that improve organizational performance.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
Understand implicit bias

List techniques to de-bias yourself
Identify the different types of allyship
Describe practical strategies for being an effective ally.

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DEI 401: A Board's Impact on DEI
2023-12-14 09:00 - 12:30 UTC
The National Council of Nonprofits defines a Board’s responsibility being “to steer the organization towards a sustainable future by adopting sound, ethical, and legal governance and financial management policies, as well as by making sure the nonprofit has adequate resources to advance its mission.” Research from McKinsey, PWC, and others show that organizations that have diversity in their leadership are more likely to outperform their peers. Yet, it is more than just diversity of people that makes an organization perform at its best.
Author and DEI Expert James Mckim will explore how nonprofit boards can ignite the performance of their organizations by embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion for themselves and their organizations.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will:
• describe how diversity, equity, and inclusion can impact your board;
• describe how your board can ensure your organization’s leadership, structure, and programming is equitable and inclusive;
• identify actionable ideas for improving your organization’s performance through DEI.

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DEI Office Hours - December
2023-12-19 12:00 - 13:00 UTC

DEI for Mangers - January 8, 2023
2024-01-08 13:00 - 15:30 UTC | Wentworth By The Sea, 588 Wentworth Rd, New Castle, NH, 03854, United States
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) is a proven way to elicit superior performance from teams and individuals. But that performance does not just happen by itself. Even if there is a DEI Plan, that plan needs to be carried out day-to-day. So, how do you bring diversity into your group? How do you engage everyone equitably so that they perform at their best and your team performs at its highest level?
Come to the Winter 2024 Leadership & Management Conference: Cultivating an Engaged Workplace – the University of New Hampshire’s 15th Annual Conference for Managers, Supervisors, Team & Project Leaders and hear James McKim facilitate a discussion of how to embed DEI into your daily work as a manager.

DEI Office Hours - January
2024-01-16 12:00 - 13:00 UTC

Achieving Performance Through DEI: Strategies for Nonprofit Leaders
2024-01-18 09:00 - 10:30 UTC
Whether you are just getting started with leading your organization’s DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiative, or looking to invigorate work you’ve already begun, this session will provide inspiration and tools to move you forward. Bestselling author and DEI expert James McKim will discuss how to set yourself up for a successful diversity, equity, & inclusion initiative using a DEI Roadmap.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
• Link your DEI initiative to organizational performance
• Create a roadmap for your DEI initiative
• Set the proper expectations for a DEI initiative
• Create welcoming spaces and a higher-performing organization

Lunch & Learn: - DEI 302: Achieving OrganizationalPerformance Through Diversity
2024-01-18 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Senior Management has decided they want to pursue diversity for the good the organization and its customers/clients. You have been tasked with leading or playing a major role in carrying out this decision. But how do you do this? Whether you are Senior management or middle-management – in HR or Business Unit/Department Leadership,
Author and DEI expert James McKim will help participants understand how from a strategic perspective to leverage diversity, equity, and inclusion beyond mere compliance to improve ultimate organizational performance.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this session, you will be able to:

Link your DEI initiative to organizational performance
Establish the proper governance and expectations for a DEI initiative
Understand the role of the leadership in the success of a DEI initiative

James McKim Interviewed on NBC10's @Issue
2024-01-23 19:00 - 23:00 UTC
James McKim will be joining hosts Corey Smith and Sue O’Donnell providing commentary on the New Hampshire Primary.
You can watch live coverage from 7-11 p.m., on nbc10boston.com and necn.com or on telemundonuevainglaterra.com. And you can also watch on Peacock, Roku, Samsung TV Plus and our other streaming platforms.

Society for Organizational Learning Virtual Learning Practice on DEI
2024-03-14 11:00 - 12:30 UTC
You won’t want to miss this virtual discussion where James Mckim challenge us to expand our perspective on what DEI is and its impact on organisational and individual performance and the bottom line. He will also address questions around:

How do you engage everyone equitably so that they perform at their best and contribute to high levels of te
am performance?

How do we ignite people to optimal performance using his formula of equitable inclusion of diverse individuals.

Making DEI Change Stick
2024-03-19 08:30 - 10:00 UTC
Change is a strange thing. Sometimes organizations want it even when they say they do not. Sometimes organizations know they need it but don’t know how to make it stick. For many organizations, such is the case around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). How do you manage change that will stick? This session will discuss why DEI efforts fail and ways to ensure that your DEI effort is not just a social justice initiative but an organizational performance initiative.
By the end of the session, participants will have learned:

Key tenets of organizational change
Why DEI efforts fail
Key components of a successful effort to provide programs that are equitable and inclusive

DEI Office Hours - March 19, 2024
2024-03-19 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Have questions about your DEI initiative?
Join your peers and our experts every 3rd Thursday to learn

what works
what doesn’t work
how to overcome your challenges in implementing DEI so that it actually improves your organization

Above & Below the Mason-Dixon Line: Are the North & South That Different?
2024-03-19 17:30 - 19:00 UTC | Saint Anselm College Institute of Politics, 100 St Anselm Dr., Manchester, NH, 03102, United States
Ever wonder if race relations are different in the North from the South. Join a discussion hosted by Saint Anselm College where James McKim will interview Dr. Luther Ivory about the differences in race relations between above and below the Mason-Dixon line.

Measuring DEI: Beyond Simple Counts to Impactful Engagement
2024-04-16 08:30 - 10:00 (America/New_York)
You have made the decision to embark on a DEI initiative. Good. Now how do you know whether or not your effort is successful? Management guru Peter Drucker said that “if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” That applies to DEI. If you can’t measure DEI in your organization, you can’t improve it. Join us for a discussion of measuring a DEI initiative.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:

identify and calculate the metrics that are important in a DEI initiative
gather data about your DEI initiative
analyze the data and draw conclusions from the analysis.

DEI Office Hours - April 16
2024-04-16 12:00 - 13:00 UTC

Change Management at the Transform Your Rental Property Summit
2024-04-19 11:00 - 14:00 UTC
Thanks to Emin Muhammad for a great interview for ColbyCoCo’s upcoming Transform Your Rental Property Summit 2024 on #ChangeManagement. It was great talking about starting with a Growth Mindset, eliminating the biases that constitute a resistance to change, and developing risk management plans to eliminate the pushback against change.

Measuring DEI: Beyond Simple Counts to Impactful Engagement & ROI @ NH BSR Conference
2024-05-02 07:30 - 17:00 UTC
You have made the decision to embark on a Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) initiative. Good. Now how do you know whether or not your effort is successful? Management guru Peter Drucker has been credited with saying that “if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” That applies to DEI. If you can’t measure DEI in your organization, you can’t improve it.
Join James McKim for a discussion during the NH BSR Prosperity Unleashed Conference on how to measure a DEI initiative that is based on the groundbreaking work of Dr. Edward Hubbard and Curt J. Howes. We will discuss the 3 types of DEI goals, the 20 DEI goal areas, how DEI goals should be aligned to overall organizational goals, and methods for tracking your chosen goals that include Return on Investment (ROI). Learning Objectives By the end of this session, you will be able to:

identify DEI ROI
identify the goals and metrics that are important in your DEI initiative
determine methods to gather data about your DEI initiative
understand how to analyze your data and draw conclusions from the analysis

When you register, use promo code “SPEAKERGUEST” to get $100 off your ticket.

Culture/Ethnicity, Women, Age in the Workplace
2024-05-14 08:30 - 10:00 UTC
Resmaa Menachem says that culture is the way our bodies re-enact history through the foods we eat, the stories we tell, and the images that move us. But how does that impact how we show up in the workplace?
There are a record 5 generations in the workforce. Yet our society and employers seem to value only the younger ones. Research has shown that youth focus to be short-sighted when it comes to achieving superior organizational performance.
Research by McKinsey and others has shown that organizations that truly engage women at all levels outperform those organizations that do not. And despite claims to the contrary, research also shows that truly and equitably engaging women equitably is not happening in the US.
Learning Outcomes
By the end this workshop you will be able to:

identify the 9 components of culture
identify the 4 components of gender
recognize the challenges different genders face in the workplace
interact positively with people of different genders
identify the 5 generations in the workforce
recognize the values of people of different ages face in the workplace interact positively with people of different ages

The link to the session will be sent in an email after you register.

Civility & Respect Across Difference: Reducing Stress & Increasing Productivity in Construction "Reducing Stress & Increasing Productivity in Construction
2024-05-15 11:30 - 12:30 UTC
When creating cultures that value psychological safety, civility and respect play a key role. This workshop will explain the value of civility and respectful behavior in a construction company setting and the basic concepts that lead to effectively interacting with people from various backgrounds, cultures (Black, Asian, Latinx, Indigenous, etc.) and personality characteristics.
The workshop will address:

What civility and respect are
Why civility and respect across difference is important
Definitions of diversity, culture equity, inclusion, implicit bias
The impact on mental health and the harm that is done to individuals and the company when unintended discrimination occurs.

Presented by: James T. McKim, Jr., PMP, ITIL, Managing Partner
