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How to Win the Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Challenge by Embracing GENgagement


Level: Intermediate
Runtime: 68 minutes
Recorded Date: September 22, 2020
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Agenda

  • The overlooked piece in DEI
  • Culture–Intersectionality –Voice
  • The Business Case for age diversity in DEI
  • Generational diversity for teams, client relations, succession planning
  • Tips for successful non-traditional reporting relationships
  • Cross-generational conversations for productivity & DEI
Runtime: 1 hour, 8 minutes
Recorded: September 22, 2021
For NY - Difficulty Level: Both newly admitted and experienced attorneys

Description

This seminar will shine a spotlight on the essential role interpreting and understanding typical generational attributes, assets and preferences play in harmonious and productive relationships in your law firm. Phyllis will provide the what when and how to integrate this vital knowledge for inclusion and equity in multigenerational, multi-cultural workplace relationships, with specific action steps, examples and stories for your law firm.

Join author of Embrace GENgagement , Phyllis Weiss Haserot for the tool and strategies on how to deal with your clients' and colleagues' generationally influenced attitudes, behaviors and motivations.

This program was recorded on September 22nd, 2020.

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American Bar Association
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Panelists

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Erika Pagano

Director
Law Without Walls

Erika is a lawyer, culture creator, innovator, and facilitator. She is also a speaker, independent consultant, and facilitator to law firms and corporate legal departments, focusing on strategy, culture creation, teaming, technology, and cross-border initiatives. Erika holds a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University and studied at Peking University and East China Normal University.

Erika received her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Miami, where she was Managing Editor of Miami Law Review, James Weldon Johnson/Robert H. Waters Scholar, and LWOW alumna (2012). She is a Dean of the Awesome Foundation Miami, sits on the National Advisory Council for Law School Transparency, and is actively involved with Georgetown University as co-chair of the Class of 2008 Committee and as an alumni admissions interviewer.

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Linda Gadsby

General Counsel
National Board of Medical Examiners

Linda M. Gadsby is the General Counsel at the National Board of Medical Examiners. 

Previous, Linda served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Scholastic Inc., the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books, and a leading developer of educational technology. She was responsible for handling the labor and employment law issues for the approximately 7,000 domestic employees, as well as international labor and employment issues in the UK, Canada, Puerto Rico, and other locations, immigration, and employee benefits law.

In recognition of her accomplishments, in 2014, Ms. Gadsby was honored by NYU School of Law’s Women of Color Collective, was named Alumnus of the month by NYU Law, and received Chambers USA Women in Law’s Outstanding Contribution to Mentoring Award. She has also been recognized by the Girls Scouts of Greater New York as one of their Women of Distinction, by the Network Journal Magazine as one of the Top 25 Women in Business, and by Diversity Magazine as one of their Top 100 Under 50 Executive Leaders. Ms. Gadsby previously served on the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy.

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Phyllis Weiss Haserot

President & Founder
Practice Development Counsel

Phyllis Weiss Haserot is a passionate champion for improving relations among the generations in the workplace to boost productivity, client and personnel attraction and retention, succession planning and knowledge transfer. She is President of Practice Development Counsel, a business development and organizational effectiveness consulting firm she founded over 25 years ago and founder of Cross-Generational Conversation Day.

Through on-site and off-site programs, conferences, webcasts, blogging, *Cross-Generational Conversation* forums and monthly newsletters, Phyllis has established a reputation as a “go-to” person on workplace intergenerational issues. She brings an unusual combination of marketing, conflict resolution and multigenerational workplace effectiveness expertise to help firms solve sensitive challenges among the generations working together. A trailblazer in marketing/business development for law firms, she also works with firms on retention and lateral integration, strategic marketing planning, implementing flexibility, and collaborative culture.

Consultant, coach, speaker and facilitator, Phyllis is the author of two books on marketingfor law firms, THE RAINMAKING MACHINE (2014) and THE MARKETER’S HANDBOOK OF TIPS & CHECKLISTS (both Thomson Reuters). She has a book in progress titled “You Can’t Google it! The Compelling Case for Cross-Generational Conversation at Work” and is a regular columnist on intergenerational challenges for Forbes.com, Next Avenue, Huffington Post, AccountingWEB and the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute blog.

Phyllis uses identification and analysis of personal styles - behavioral, communication, natural preferences, and work expectations – to enhance firms’ and individuals’ effectiveness and remove barriers to performing at their best. She earned B.A. and MRP degrees and a Certificate in Dispute Resolution all from Cornell University.

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