Workplace Diversity—A Strategic Business Advantage
Navigate ADA, Accessibility and Accommodations with the “A Team!”

Tuesday, April 19, 2011: 9:00am – 12:00noon, Hawai‘i Convention Center (Lunch and networking to follow)

Are you looking for ways to add value to your business?

Join a team of experts and local business leaders to discuss innovative strategies that can positively impact your bottom line and elevate your brand. Attend this workshop to learn how to:

• Maximize your talent pipeline
• Diversify your workforce
• Expand your customer base
• Increase your market share

Designed specifically for Business Leaders and Human Resource Professionals, this seminar provides expert knowledge and guidance, engaging discussion, practical resources, and action planning. The goal is to help leaders expand their thinking and actions around human capital management strategies to include talented people with disabilities in their workplace, marketplace and community.

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

1. Understand how building inclusive policies and practices can open doors to a new talent stream and allow businesses to experience a unique workforce advantage.
2. Learn expert strategies for building an accessible organization to enhance your workplace, reach the changing marketplace and include the community of talented people with disabilities.
3. Gain knowledge of how to use the step by step process for making reasonable accommodations to ensure compliance and enhance workforce productivity.

Who Should Attend

• CEOs
• Human Resource Directors
• Diversity Officers
• Compliance Officers
• PHR, SPHR & GPHR
• All Human Resource Professionals

Continuing Education Credits Available—HRCI Recertification Credits

This program has been pre-approved for 3 hours of General recertification credit hours through the HR Certification Institute toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute Web site at http://hrci.org/

The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute’s criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.

About the Trainers

Tammie McNaughton—Diversity, Inclusion & Human Capital Management Consultant
With over 30 years of business experience, Tammie McNaughton has built her career on helping organizations establish successful and inclusive human capital management strategies. She is widely regarded for her work and Human Resources expertise in diversity and inclusion, talent management, disability employment strategy, training, leadership development, workforce development, employee engagement, culture and communications. Learn more

Lou Orslene—Co-Director, Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
Lou Orslene serves as the Co-Director of the Job Accommodation Network (JAN) as well as the fiscal officer for both JAN and the Disability Research Policy Center at West Virginia University. JAN is the leading source of free, expert and confidential guidance on workplace accommodations and disability employment issues. As a service of the US Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment, JAN’s professional consultants have managed more than 500,000 inquiries with employers, people with disabilities, and others. Learn more

Debra Ruh—Founder and CEO, TecAccess
Debra Ruh is the founder and CEO of TecAccess, the leading provider of accessible Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) for the largest and fastest growing minority group– People with Disabilities, Baby Boomers, and Veterans with Disabilities in the world. Debra Ruh serves as the Chair of the VABLN and board member of the USBLN. She is also on the steering committee, and is chair the Employability and Technology Group, at G3ict, the Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies. Learn more

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