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Episodes
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Learning objective: Examine methods for fostering a diverse workplace
Diversity and inclusion are vital drivers of business success. However, creating a more diverse and inclusive work environment can involve overcoming significant barriers within an organization. How can you effectively drive change? How can you help others seize opportunities to create a culture where everyone truly feels valued? In this program, our panel will discuss the roles of C-suite leaders to frontline employees in establishing a diverse and welcoming workplace. The discussion will focus on examples, practical tools, and technologies to help develop a purpose and strategy that makes diversity a workplace reality.
At the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Explain why creating a diverse workplace requires ongoing effort across the entire enterprise.
- Explore a framework that anyone can use to impact change and create a more inclusive environment.
- Examine how recognition and other solutions can be used to mitigate unconscious bias and improve belonging.
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Friday Oct 27, 2023
Friday Oct 27, 2023
Learning Objective: Advice that inspires leadership growth and development.
You don’t want to miss Real Talk: A Conversation on Breaking the Glass Ceiling! The experiences of women in the workplace can be vary dramatically from person to person, and group to group. Yet with these differences, there are also similarities that all women experience. This executive panel promises insights from trailblazing leaders whose ability to transform obstacles into opportunities has helped them reach incredible heights in their careers. Join us for a “real” conversation about personal and professional challenges, strategies to overcome barriers, shifting perspectives, and shattering the glass ceiling for future generations of women.
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Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Learning Objectives: Enhance your understanding of the role STEM professionals play in the research and management of the effects and mitigation of climate change, with a particular focus on disturbances such as fire, with outstanding leaders and scientists from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service.
Climate change is affecting disturbance regimes across the globe. These include catastrophic wildfires, drought, hurricanes, flooding, and extreme weather that threaten the health and resilience of our communities, lands, waters, and wildlife. Now more than ever, science-based management of natural resources is increasingly important for mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change. In an era of unprecedented change, STEM professionals are increasingly asked to think about climate change science and land management strategies and look for effective management techniques now and decades into the future.
Join USDA Forest Service panel members as they describe how they study and manage lands affected by climate changes. This includes research that covers the impacts of changing disturbances regimes on ecosystems, analysis of fire behavior and effects on ecological dynamics, human health, forest products across our nation’s diverse landscapes. Our panelists will provide expertise to help guide sound, science-informed, decision-making in response to climate change and extreme climate events.
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
- Deepen their understanding about best practices and STEM professional career opportunities in the management of unique ecosystems currently threatened by climate change.
- Connect with USDA Forest Service science and scientists providing leading scientific knowledge of climate change, disturbance regimes, fire, and smoke that influence management decisions on the Nation’s forests and grasslands.
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Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
As businesses face rising inflation, supply chain disruptions, and economic uncertainty, it's more important than ever to have robust business continuity plans in place. In this session, business leaders will share their experiences on how they leveraged digital transformation to build resilience in their organizations. They will discuss the role of agile decision-making, global business models, and governance models like GBS in ensuring continuity during times of crisis. Attendees will learn from these experts on how to build and implement effective business continuity plans that can weather any future disruptions.
By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Analyze the impact of workforce management decisions on productivity and the bottom line.
- Assess the role of automation in building a stable future of work model.
- Understand how governance models like GBS deliver more resilient business practices.
- Explore the use of data analytics, intelligence, and forecasting in creating effective business continuity plans.
Speakers
Friday Apr 07, 2023
Friday Apr 07, 2023
There are a lot of personal and professional reasons why folks strive for a Ph.D. but a fair generalization is the aim to change the world for the better. Other fair generalizations are that many PhDs leave academia because they don’t find the institution conducive to tangibly change the world and that there is very little guidance on how one can utilize their Ph.D. skill sets in jobs outside of academia. At Booz Allen Hamilton, we have made it a mission to bring together our over 1000 doctorate employees (and our many other engineers willing to roll up their sleeves) to collectively help with the firm’s bigger VoLT Strategy by (1) generating R&D that will advance client products and services, (2) building strategic partnerships with high-level government officials looking to solve their “Ph.D.-level hard” problems, and (3) ensuring that diversity remains paramount as business imperative. We look forward to talking about our experience with you and really look forward to talking with the audience about ways we all can work together in changing the world for the better.
After this panel, the participants will be able to:
- Better utilize their PhDs/hands-on engineers towards research opportunities that can help your organization’s bottom line
- Build a pipeline to help both attract more PhDs to join your organization and help members of your current organization in attaining a Ph.D.
- Build strategic partnerships with outside entities that can lead to further business
Speakers:
Charles Johnson-Bey, Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Dr. Christina Leggett, Nuclear Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton
Dr. Kalena Stovall, Chemical Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton
Dr. Sean Guillory, Booz Allen Hamilton
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Have you ever felt like your seat at the table was two feet lower than everyone else’s or every time you showed up virtually or in person, you felt invisible? Or maybe you’ve been subjected to the hypervisibility that comes along with being the only minority in the room and dealt with how to “blend in” affecting your ability to be authentically seen and heard. Either way, the challenges associated with visibility for minority populations are real and are being experienced everyday. Can we really overcome the challenges of being seen and heard in today’s culture?
In this forum, we will hear from individuals who will share their experiences and perspectives about being seen and heard, despite the microaggressions, marginalization and unconscious biases that exist in the workplace. Their experiences will shed light and give voice to those who have been silently waiting to show up in ways that pierce the darkness of invisibility and inspire all of us to open our eyes and ears to those who have been challenged with being seen and heard. Just know that you are visible, even if others refuse to remove their blindfolds.
Speakers:
Charles Everett, Executive Director, Raytheon Technologies
Dawn Charleston, Director of Supplier Quality and Compliance, Raytheon Technologies
Amanda Goodson, Senior Director, Raytheon Company
Robert Griffifths, Vice President, Raytheon Technologies
Ceah Justice, Head of Global Employee Engagement, Raytheon Technologies
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
At Amazon, invention and innovation are two sides of the same coin. Both require breaking through the constraints of convention and apparent technical limitations. Invention requires you to imagine a future where things are markedly different, and then to imagine what it would take to get there. Innovation takes an existing process or product and blows apart the constraints that make it behave the way it does today and imagine what it could become. This seminar is an intimate conversation with some of Amazon's top Senior Principal Technologists to discuss their role as individual contributors and how they have used their expertise to invent and innovate to optimize the output for their respective organizations.
Speakers:
Stephanie LaBoo, Director of Mechatronics Grocery Automation, Amazon
Bryan Liles, Senior Principle Engineer, Amazon
Joshua Thomas, Regional Director Sub Same Day Business, Amazon
Chris Musoke, Director Design Services, Amazon Global Robotics
Jovonia Thibert, Director of Mechatronics Grocery Automation, Amazon
Tia White, General Manager, Amazon
Friday Mar 31, 2023
Friday Mar 31, 2023
Learning Objective:
Exploring an array of messages received from family, friends, media, and society may cause some to question their knowledge, skills, and abilities. These messages can also lead to struggles with confidence and self-limiting thoughts on the roles they apply for. Historically, minorities and women have received messages that they are not capable of achieving the heights of success; they must work harder than others; or their natural hair, choice of style and clothing are not deemed professional. In other words, they “don’t belong,” or they must fit in to succeed. The pressure to compete can cause some to internalize these messages. They may succumb to perfectionism or feel like they are carrying the weight of their whole race or gender on their shoulders.
These experiences can become internalized leading to negative self-talk and reduced confidence. “Can I listen to the music I enjoy in the comfort of my office or cubicle?” “Will I be judged for growing up in a low-income neighborhood?” “Will I be deemed unprofessional for wearing cultural attire to work?” This fear of judgement and perceptions based on messages or experiences can cause some to hide aspects of their identities at work (covering), code switch, and in some cases, morph into a completely different person during work hours.
Learn from and interact with a multi-generational panel of industry leaders as they share experiences, challenges they’ve conquered in their careers, the power of owning your diversity, and advice to build confidence in your truth.
After this seminar, participants will be able to:
a. Identify and learn skills to combat negative self-talk when it appears.
b. Learn skills to navigate societal norms and interpersonal barriers.
c. Understand what it means to bring your authentic self to work and walk in your truth.
Speakers:
Randy Johnson, Senior Director for Research, Development, and Process Technology, Huntington Ingalls Industries
Lauren Bruner, Senior Director for Strategic Planning, Huntington Ingalls Industries
Sondia Christian, Director of Business Integration, Huntington Ingalls Industries
Stephanie Simmons, Director, Huntington Ingalls Industries
Dr. Dorian Newton, Apprenticeship School & Pipeline Training Program Manager, Huntington Ingalls Industries
Marcus Jackson, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Huntington Ingalls Industries
Emmanuel Onafeko, Systems Engineer, Huntington Ingalls Industries
Thursday Mar 30, 2023
Thursday Mar 30, 2023
This six-member panel will discuss the importance of scientists and engineers (S&Es) in accomplishing the mission of the Department of the Air Force. This diverse panel will address the exciting challenges as well as note the personal and professional fulfillment they experience by working alongside their military partners. Two senior leaders will share their visions of the important roles that S&Es have in advancing our technology in defense our nation; the importance of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility; commitment to public service; and share important points in their careers. Three S&Es will show exciting highlights from projects they have had as well as paint a picture of their work-life balance, impacts of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in their careers, and their own personal professional and personal fulfillment serving as S&Es in the Air Force.
Speakers:
Karen Hudson, Chief, Avionics Engineering Division
Dr. Marcus Smith, Chief Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility Officer, Air Force Research Laboratory
Damon Brown, Engineering Technical Expert, USAF / 402 Electronics Maintenance Group
Jacqueline Janning-Lask, Director of Engineering and Technical Management and Chief Engineer, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center
CDR Heather Pringle, Air Force Research Laboratory
Jessica Peterson, Technical Director, Flight Test Engineering
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Learning Objective: Understand how to identify operational technology assets that are most critical to the accomplishment of an organization's mission.
MITRE's Crown Jewels Analysis (CJA) is a process and corresponding toolset for identifying assets that are most critical to the accomplishment of an organization's mission. The capability has been recently applied operational technology and associated control systems (electrical, water, building automation, etc.) for government sponsors. CJA captures not only mission-level impacts, but also task- and function-level impacts, useful for developing mitigation strategies and operate-through procedures. The seminar will cover CJA, its applications, and the mission-decomposition approach to uncover vital mission dependencies for assessment and mitigation planning.
Speakers:
Cedric Carter Jr., Mobile, Embedded, and Cyber-Physical Security, Principal, The MITRE Corporation