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Special Fall Summit Agenda Announcement

October 9, 2020 By Kali Roberts

Join BCGi for the Special Fall Virtual Summit! We’re bringing back the AAP Boot Camp for Day 1 and partnering with other organizations to bring you a variety of timely and engaging presentations that are well worth your time, even for the virtual meeting fatigued!

Day 1 – October 26, 10am – 2pm PST / 1pm – 5pm EST

BCGi’s “AAP Boot Camp,” a 4-hour marathon webinar session covering all of the “to-dos” that have to get “to done” in order to develop and implement AAPs. Attendees will walk through all of the technical requirements and will take home BCGi’s “OFCCP Compliance Scorecard,” a valuable tool for making sure all the technical boxes are being checked and understanding what is required.

Day 2 – October 27, 10am – 1pm PST / 1pm – 4pm EST

Lessons Learned from #MeToo – Navigating the Other Dimensions of Workplace Harassment – Rae Vann, Carlton Fields & Chris Gokturk, Littler
Q&A Panel Re Transgender Issues in the Workplace – Andi Wofford & Pamela Roberts, Northrop Grumman

Day 3 – October 28, 10am – 1pm PST / 1pm – 4pm EST

Termination Traps – Top 10 Mistakes Employers Make When Terminating Employees and How to Avoid Them – Christopher Durham & Meredith Gregston, Duane Morris
Faculty Recruiting for Excellence and Diversity – Inderdeep Chatrath, Duke University & Marilynn Schuyler, Schuyler Affirmative Action Practice

Day 4 – October 29, 10am – 1pm PST / 1pm – 4pm EST

Claiming your seat at the table and keeping it! Compliance Game of Thrones – Liz MacFarlane & Virginia Bird, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Creating a Culture of Workplace Accountability – Tucker Miller, ELI

Day 5 – October 30, 10am – 1pm PST / 1pm – 4pm EST

Under the Microscope: Promotion Processes and Performance Ratings – Valerie Hoffman, Seyfarth Shaw
Executive Order “Combating Race And Sex Stereotyping” – Matt Nusbaum, BCGi

Register for the full five days, just the AAP Boot Camp, or skip the Boot Camp and only register for Days 2 through 5!

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Register Now: 2020 “Regular” BCGi Virtual Summit

April 15, 2020 By Kali Roberts

BCGi recently announced a “special” July Summit where we will provide a platform for amazing speakers and presentations from recently cancelled live events. That event is still evolving, so stay tuned!

In the meantime, our “regular” April Summit is in full swing with an exciting agenda. BCGi re-designed the Summit as a three-day, live webinar marathon event with presentations running throughout a shortened day to allow everyone from coast-to-coast to participate during regular working hours. We hope you can join us!

The dates are:

Wednesday, April 29 – Friday, May 1

The times each day will be:

1PM – 5PM Eastern
12PM – 4PM Central
11AM – 1PM Mountain
10AM – 2PM Pacific

Day One will be BCGi’s “AAP Boot Camp” where attendees will walk through all of the “to-dos” that have to get “to-done” in order to implement a complete and compliant affirmative action program. BCGi Director Matt Nusbaum will also take participants on a deep dive into the heart of the AAP: utilization and goal setting. The session will wrap up with a presentation on developing and implementing more realistic, effective, and meaningful action plans using BCGi’s exclusive “Action Plan Worksheets.”

Day Two will consist of three fabulous guest speakers:

Attorney Marilyn Schuyler will take a deep dive into the OFCCP’s new Technical Assistance Guide for Educational Institutions.

Joyce Ibardalosa, most recently of PG&E and now the CEO of Ai Inclusion, will lend us her expertise in executive communications to move from explaining AAP details to gaining meaningful commitment.

Sheridan Walker, CEO of Hire Potential, will discuss the practical realities of disability nondiscrimination and inclusion in these quickly changing and uncertain times, and how to make sure our friends with disabilities are not disproportionately impacted.

Day Three will feature BCGi Director Matt Nusbaum with an all-new presentation on how to talk about affirmative action. Then Dr. Dan Kuang, BCGi Vice President of Diversity, Compliance, and People Analytics will entertain and amaze us regarding the ever-moving target of compensation analyses.

Attendees can register for all three days, just days two and three, or just day one.

Registration is open. Click HERE to be taken to the registration page.

Striving for Diversity – BCGi 2019 Summit Highlights

April 9, 2019 By Matt Nusbaum

On April 4th and 5th BCGi hosted its fourth annual Summit in San Francisco. This year’s theme was, “Striving for Diversity,” and focused on the challenges and rewards of pursuing “big D” diversity beyond the baseline legal requirements. Attendees were treated to a wide range of presentations by leaders in the Diversity & Inclusion field.

Sheridan Walker presenting Applicants with Disabilities - Unknown Barriers to Risk and Poor Applicant Experience. — Sheridan Walker presenting *Applicants with Disabilities – Unknown Barriers to Risk and Poor Applicant Experience.*

Day one kicked off with Christy Kiely, a practicing attorney at Hunton Andrews Kurth, who helped attendees distinguish between “diversity” and “inclusion,” explained their interplay, and provided practical suggestions for institutionalizing their philosophies. Following a short break, Marc Brenman, Managing Partner at IDARE, entertained and informed attendees regarding the numerous ways that organizations can measure diversity and its effects beyond employee demographics. After lunch, Karen Elkins Cohen and Adrienne Kimball of Rubicon Programs regaled attendees with their story about how their entire organization was literally transformed by and through diversity and inclusion philosophy. Finally, Sheridan Walker, Founder and CEO of HirePotential, took much of the “mystery” out of identifying and eliminating artificial barriers for individuals with disabilities and enlightened attendees on how making the world more accessible benefits everyone.

After such a jam-packed first day, attendees unwound a bit at the Biddle and AJE-sponsored cocktail hour held in the common area at the Prologis offices, a newly and beautifully renovated space that managed to bring the outdoors inside and feel both expansive and intimate at the same time. It was the perfect space to digest the day’s offerings, network, and follow-up with Biddle staff and Summit presenters.

Day two saw Biddle staff members Dan Kuang and Michel Pati breaking down the promises and actual capabilities of today’s artificial intelligence. The Summit wrapped with Candee Chambers, Executive Director of DirectEmployers Association, and John Fox, President and partner of the law firm of Fox, Wang & Morgan, waxing on whether and to what extent employers can make lawful gender and race/ethnicity considerations when making employment decisions in either the compliance or diversity contexts.

Those who were lucky enough to attend the pre-conference session with Dan Kuang got an in-depth look into the California Fair Pay Act—how it was conceived and how it is supposed to work—compared with other equal pay legislation. Pre-con attendees also received an easy-to-use compensation analysis tool and received hands-on training from the genius who developed it!

According to early feedback, the 2019 BCGi Summit was a smashing success. Executive Vice President, Patrick Nooren delivered his characteristically passionate opening and closing remarks and introduced BCGi’s new Director, Matt Nusbaum. Matt is already full of ideas for next year’s Summit, but he also wants to hear directly from the BCGi family regarding what you would like to see and hear at future events. Don’t be shy! Matt can be reached at mnusbaum@biddle.com.

We would like to extend our sincerest thanks to all who participated and presented at the 2019 BCGi Summit, making it such a success. And no small thanks goes out to Prologis for generously hosting the Summit at their innovative office space.