Building Cultures for Inclusion and Impact in the Post-Covid and AI World

Session Description:

The past five years have brought about rapid transformation to organizations and specific to the aftermath effects of COVID as well as the emergence of AI. Yet how can organizational leaders and HR professionals create and build stronger cultures for impact? Where must newer policies emerge to create a greater balance between office presence and remote work that can promote work-life balance as part of inclusion? Finally, and most importantly, how must organizational leaders and HR practitioners embrace the needs of DEIB and AI transformation whereby talent and performance management systems need to increasingly allow and reward workers for bringing their authentic selves while also developing cultures of psychological safety in career pathways and in work? In this roundtable session, we will look at these topics as an active dialogue of what attendees as well as leading practitioners are seeing in everyday trends and needs which can transition organizations from Post-COVID and AI crisis management toward building institutional and HR practices that can unleash organizational and individual potential toward greater inclusion and their integration.
 

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Session Organizer and Facilitator:

Nicole C. Jackson, Ph.D., is a management expert with over 15 years of diversified program management related experience including in business process improvement, organizational design and alignment, training, and risk mitigation for education, government, non-profit and private sectors. Dr. Jackson’s experience includes academic research and instruction positioned to mid and senior executive audiences in HR, Organizational and Leadership methods and practices, as well as program and risk assessments with a specific emphasis on organizational and leadership ambidexterity development (i.e., the balance between innovation and competency development) - critical to the digital transformation economy. She has written and has served as keynote speaker on these topics including for CERIC - The Canadian Economic Development Agency as well as for the Society of Human Resource Management - Northern California Chapter (SHRM-NorCal) including more recent work on AI and DEIB. Prior to graduate academia, she served as an IT Business Process Consultant, Training Manager, and Product Manager in both high compliance-driven client engagements and start-up environments. She recently was appointed to the position of Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Affairs from her role as Associate Dean of the Ageno School of Business at Golden Gate University.